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Tag Archives: social and cultural 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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Two reviews of “Youth Activism and Solidarity”
This week the first two reviews of our book Youth Activism and Solidarity, about the Non-Stop Picket of the South African Embassy in London during the 1980s, have been published. One is aimed at an academic readership and the other for activists … Continue reading
Posted in Academic, Dissemination, Gavin Brown, Helen Yaffe, Media coverage, Project staff
Tagged Anti-Apartheid Movement, Antipode journal, apartheid in south africa, City of London Anti-Apartheid Group, historical geography, Non-Stop Picket, Revolutionary Communist Group, 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 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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Being ‘non-stop against apartheid’: seminar in Nottingham (5 February)
On Wednesday 5th February 2014 Gavin Brown will be giving a seminar at the University of Nottingham about the Non-Stop Picket project. His talk is called “Being ‘non-stop against apartheid’: the spatialities and temporalities of British solidarity activism in the late … Continue reading
Posted in Academic, Dissemination
Tagged City of London Anti-Apartheid Group, international solidarity, London in the 1980s, Non-Stop Picket, protest infrastructure, protest movements, social and cultural geography, south african embassy in london, temporalities, Trafalgar Square, University of Nottingham
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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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UCL Geography Seminar: On having been a participant
Gavin will be speaking about the Non-Stop Against Apartheid research project at University College London on Tuesday 19 November. The seminar, organised by the Geography department, takes place at 12.30 in Bedford Way 113. Gavin’s talk is titled “Having been a … Continue reading
Non-Stop Against Apartheid at the #RGSIBG13 conference
This week Gavin Brown will be presenting a paper from the Non-Stop Against Apartheid research at the Annual Conference of the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) in London. His paper is called “The Young Ones: adolescence, … Continue reading
Posted in Academic, Dissemination, Gavin Brown, Project staff
Tagged children and young people's geographies, City of London Anti-Apartheid Group, critical geopolitics, historical geography, Non-Stop Picket, Royal Geographical Society, social and cultural geography, Solidarity, young people's activism
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Non-Stop Against Apartheid 