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Tag Archives: political geography
Histories and Legacies of Solidarities with the Anti-Apartheid Struggle (Glasgow, 22 May 2018)
On 22 May, the University of Glasgow is organising an event about the Histories and Legacies of Solidarites with the Anti-Apartheid Struggle. This event has been organised to mark the publication of a new book by Gavin Brown and Helen … Continue reading
Posted in Academic, Dissemination, Gavin Brown, Helen Yaffe, Popular & Informal Education, Project staff
Tagged Anti-Apartheid Movement, children and young people's geographies, City of London Anti-Apartheid Group, Non-Stop Picket, political geography, social and cultural geography, Solidarity
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Book launch event (27 November, Leicester)
Posted in Academic, Dissemination, Gavin Brown, Popular & Informal Education, Project staff
Tagged Anti-Apartheid Movement, City of London Anti-Apartheid Group, historical geography, Nelson Mandela, Non-Stop Picket, political geography, social and cultural geography, University of Leicester
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“Youth Activism & Solidarity: the Non-Stop Picket against Apartheid” published
We are pleased to announce that our book Youth Activism and Solidarity: the Non-Stop Picket against Apartheid is published, by Routledge, today. From April 1986 until just after Nelson Mandela’s release from prison in February 1990, supporters of the City of London … Continue reading
Posted in Academic, Dissemination, Gavin Brown, Helen Yaffe, Popular & Informal Education, Project staff
Tagged Anti-Apartheid Movement, apartheid regime, children and young people's geographies, City of London Anti-Apartheid Group, critical geopolitics, Geography, historical geography, international solidarity, internationalism, Nelson Mandela, Non-Stop Picket, political geography, social and cultural geography, social movements, Solidarity, South Africa, South African Embassy, Trafalgar Square
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The Non-Stop Picket and the solidarity of the British Far Left
Today is the anniversary of the launch of the City of London Anti-Apartheid Group’s Non-Stop Picket of the South African Embassy in London. The ways in which City Group provided solidarity with those resisting apartheid in South Africa both drew … Continue reading
Posted in Academic, Dissemination, Gavin Brown, Project staff
Tagged ANC, Anti-Apartheid Movement, City of London Anti-Apartheid Group, Cold War, Communist Party of Great Britain, critical geopolitics, Far Left, geopolitics, internationalism, Marxist Workers Tendency, Militant, Non-Stop Picket, Pan-Africanist Congress, political geography, Revolutionary Communist Group, Socialist Workers Party, Solidarity, South African Communist Party, Third World
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The end of the project (for now). Some thanks.
Today is officially the last day of our current funding for the Non-Stop Against Apartheid project. So, our thanks are due to a few people. But, before that, here is our (current) favourite quote from the project: In the annals … Continue reading
Posted in Gavin Brown, Helen Yaffe, Project staff
Tagged City of London Anti-Apartheid Group, critical geopolitics, Helen Yaffe, historical geography, leverhulme trust, Nelson Mandela, Non-Stop Against Apartheid, Non-Stop Picket, political geography, social and cultural geography, University of Leicester
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Our achievements and the future of this blog
We’re nearly done! Officially, the current phase of our research about the Non-Stop Picket comes to an end in under a fortnight. Since July 2011 our work has been funded by a research project grant from the Leverhulme Trust. That … Continue reading
Posted in Academic, Archival research, Dissemination, Gavin Brown, Helen Yaffe, Interview material, Popular & Informal Education, Project staff
Tagged Anti-Apartheid Movement, apartheid in south africa, City of London Anti-Apartheid Group, historical geography, Non-Stop Picket, political geography, social and cultural geography, South African Embassy, Trafalgar Square
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Thinking international solidarity in Dublin
Gavin and Helen are speaking in Dublin tomorrow at a one-day conference about International Solidarity. The event “International Solidarity: practices, problems, possibilities” has been organised by the Department of Sociology at Trinity College Dublin. Our paper, ‘Practices of solidarity: opposing … Continue reading
Posted in Academic, Dissemination, Gavin Brown, Helen Yaffe, Project staff
Tagged City of London Anti-Apartheid Group, Dublin, Dunnes Store Strikers, international solidarity, Non-Stop Picket, political geography, political solidarity, social and cultural geography, solidarity activists, solidarity in Ireland, Trinity College Dublin
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The Antipode Foundation recall the Non-Stop Picket
Gavin and Helen have written a guest blog for the Antipode Foundation’s blog to accompany their new paper about the practices of solidarity enacted through the Non-Stop Picket. For those readers not familiar with the world of academic geography journals, Antipode describes … Continue reading
Posted in Academic, Dissemination, Gavin Brown, Helen Yaffe, Popular & Informal Education, Project staff
Tagged Antipode Foundation, Antipode journal, City of London Anti-Apartheid Group, historical geography, international solidarity, Non-Stop Picket, political geography, political solidarity, social practices, Solidarity, spatial practices
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New Publication: Practices of Solidarity
Our paper “Practices of Solidarity: Opposing apartheid in the centre of London” has now been published online by Antipode: a radical journal of Geography. The paper examines how the City of London Anti-Apartheid Group produced solidarity through the Non-Stop Picket of the … Continue reading
Posted in Academic, Dissemination, Gavin Brown, Helen Yaffe, Project staff
Tagged Anti-Apartheid Movement, Antipode journal, apartheid in south africa, City of London Anti-Apartheid Group, international solidarity, Non-Stop Picket, political geography, political solidarity, social and cultural geography, social movement theory, social practices, solidarity activists, south african embassy in london, spatial practices
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Public engagement 2: ESRC Festival of Social Science
In November, we will be contributing to a one-day event called “Creating worlds together: a workshop on experimentations and protest camps” as part of the ESRC‘s annual Festival of Social Science. The event is being led by our friend and … Continue reading
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