Charla Burnett

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Laurence Cox

National University of Ireland, Maynooth

Michael C . Zeller

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Doris Murphy

University College Cork

Sutapa Chattopadhyay

St Francis Xavier University (Nova Scotia, Canada)

Dimitris Papanikolopoulos

Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences

Poyraz Kolluoğlu

Istanbul Aydin University

Hiroshima University

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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Interface Vol 12 issue 1 - Organizing amidst Covid-19

by Laurence Cox, Sutapa Chattopadhyay, Doris Murphy, Poyraz Kolluoğlu, Dimitris Papanikolopoulos, Michael C . Zeller, and Charla Burnett

Interface: a journal for and about social movements, 2020

Special issue of Interface on organizing amidst the coronavirus pandemic

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Papers by Charla Burnett

Scaling up nonviolent action: Do scholars and activists agree?

In this article, we explore the way that both activist-oriented manuals and academic scholarship ... more In this article, we explore the way that both activist-oriented manuals and academic scholarship on nonviolent action in social movements and civil resistance have addressed issues related to the concept of scaling up: increasing movement strength, size, and impacts. Drawing on a database of nearly 200 case studies and activist-oriented manuals, we highlight similarities and discrepancies in the emphases of both scholarly and activistoriented materials to illustrate differing priorities among academics and practitioners in the field. Our analysis addresses possible reasons for these discrepancies and suggests directions for scholar-activist cross-fertilization.

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Voluntary Refugee Registration and Gender Development in the West Bank: the Polarization of Modern and Traditional Values

How Intersectionality-Based Approaches to International Development Illuminate the Plight of Palestine Refugees

Intersectionality is both an analytic framework and a complicated set of social practices that ca... more Intersectionality is both an analytic framework and a complicated set of social practices that can, if implemented correctly, lead to collective solidarity and action. In practice, intersectionality has the potential to illuminate invisible and complex social relationships that bring to light hidden injustices, socially, politically, and economically. This chapter explores foreign development by drawing from scholarly and practitioner-based intersectional feminist literature, such as the work of Fenella Portman and Caroline Sweetman, to analyse contemporary trends in development practice, particularly around gender-based programming. Contemporarily, gender mainstreaming has been integral in maintaining and distributing gender politics to the Global South. Drawing on the case of Palestine, the author provides framework that merges current discourses laid out by Olena Hankivsky et al.’s intersectionality-based policy framework to create a new theoretical-based framework for internatio...