The Social Movements Group was founded inSeptember 2000 as a cross-departmental and multi-disciplinary research group, based at Edge Hill College of Higher Education in North-West England but drawing upon the energies of activists and academics from around the globe. We study social movements past and present; the theories which have been developed to understand and explain social movements; and the ideas (political ideologies, social and cultural thought, structures of feeling) which have animated social movements. We work within and across a range of disciplines. Currently members range across sociology, history, womens studies, politics and cultural studies but we would welcome the participation from those with other disciplinary ‘homes’ and from those with none. ( sito dismesso)

The SMWG is a research-action project based at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. We seek to understand and re-envision social movements. Many of us work within activist networks as well as across and beyond academic disciplines to challenge the divide between activism and the academy. We situate our work within broader struggles for change and social justice.