Do Violent Protests Work?
Khandaker, Tamara, host. Wait, There’s More (podcast). June 2020. https://open.spotify.com/episode/5pcPQnpnQBaxvjRi679Ozx?si=a8ecae5588af48fb. This podcast, recorded at the height of the Black Lives Matter (BLM)…
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Can Protests Save Lives? How ACT UP helped tame the AIDS Crisis
Pettiford, Jordan, host. UnTextbooked (podcast). October 2021. https://open.spotify.com/episode/3IWRSJ0ncakV3YRhSfxLgY?si=44f1cac3cc9d4c11 This podcast explores the grassroots activism which protested the prejudiced…
A Really Good Brown Girl
Dumont, Marilyn. Canada: Brick Books, 1996. Marilyn Dumont’s poetry collection, A Really Good Brown Girl, reads as a journey from internalised shame to pride in Métis identity. The coming-of-age text, a combination of…
Reading Socio-Political and Spatial Dynamics through Graffiti in Conflict-Affect Societies
Vogel, B. et al. Third World Quarterly 41, no. 12 (2020): 1248-68 This article discusses the role of graffiti in conflict-affected areas, and how graffiti can be a lens to view peacebuilding efforts. Through four core…
Bastardized History: How Inglourious Basterds Breaks Through American Screen Memory
Setka, Stella. Jewish Film & New Media volume 3 no. 2 (Fall 2015), pp. 141-169. This article details how Inglourious Basterds (2009) examines political art and its relationship to history and historiography. Stella…
Youth Spaces in Haunted Places: Placemaking for Peacebuilding in Theory and Practice
McEvoy-Levy, Siobhan. International Journal of Peace Studies 17, no. 2 (2012): 1–32. Defining public space as a sociospatial construct, this journal article analyzes the relationship between placemaking and…
The Force of Nonviolence: An Ethico-political Bind
Butler, Judith. London: Verso, 2021. Summary In this book, Butler explores nonviolence as a central, and necessary, tool in the struggle for social equality. Butler emphasises nonviolence as a ethical – and political –…
Teenagers and young adults in dissident Irish republicanism: a case study of Na Fianna Éireann in Dublin
Reinisch, Dieter. Critical studies on terrorism 13, no. 4 (2020): 702-723. In this article, Reinisch examines the motivations and ideology of teenagers and young adults involved in dissident republican activity with a…
Great men and straight men?
Parfitt, Richard. In Musical culture and the spirit of Irish nationalism, 1848–1972. 59-79. Routledge, 2019. In this chapter, Richard Parfitt examines the use of music by different nationalist factions in Ireland…
Sports promotion and the construction of ‘Irish’ identity: Nationalism, social exclusion and the Gaelic Athletic Association
Somerville, Ian, David Mitchell, and Owen Hargie. In Public relations, society and the generative power of history, pp. 173-189. Routledge, 2019. This article examines the role that the popular Irish sporting…