From the Arab Spring to the Brazilian Protests: Towards a Theory of Organisation for Networked Movements
Wednesday November 12 2014 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TB SR2
Rodrigo Nunes
"From the Arab Spring to the Brazilian Protests: Towards a Theory of Organisation for Networked Movements", Rodrigo Nunes (Professor at PUC-Rio, Brazil)
Rodrigo Nunes is a lecturer in modern and contemporary philosophy at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). He has recently published Organisation of the Organisationless: Collective Action After Networks, in which he outlines a theory of organisation adequate to contemporary social movements, and edited a dossier on the Brazilian 2013-2014 protests for the French journal Les Temps Modernes. Between 2007 and 2011, he was an editor of Turbulence.
Followed by a wine reception.
Co-Sponsors:
TORCH Global Brazil Network
Brazilian Studies Programme, Latin American Centre Oxford University Brazilian Society
