| Interface: a journal for and about social movements | |
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| Discipline | Sociology, political sciences |
| Language | English, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and others |
| Edited by | Editorial collective |
| Publication details | |
| Publisher | National University of Ireland |
| Publication history | 2009-present |
| Frequency | Biannually |
| Open access | Yes |
| License | Creative Commons "attribution non commercial no derivatives" from issue 3/1 |
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| ISSN | 2009-2431 |
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Interface: a journal for and about social movements is an open access academic journal that publishes original research and academic reviews of books concerned mainly with sociological research on protests, social movements, and collective behavior.
One of the distinguishing features of Interface is that it attempts to engage not only social movement scholars, but also the activists themselves. The journal came out of discussions between activist researchers at the annual "Alternative Futures and Popular Protest" conference on social movements, and more broadly out of the interactions between movements and the rise of engaged social movement scholarship in the context of the anti-capitalist movement. One of only four English-language journals devoted to social movements, it is the only one to understand itself in terms of activist knowledge and as a practitioner rather than purely academic journal.
The journal has multiple editors who are responsible for different world regions, and is multilingual: to date articles have been published in 6 different languages. The journal was established in 2009 and themes covered to date include movement knowledge, civil society, revolutions, alternative media, repression and feminism and women's movements.
Notable people whom have been published in Interface include African intellectual Michael Neocosmos, South African shanty-town activist S'bu Zikode, Thai political scientist and activist Giles Ji Ungpakorn, sociologist and animal rights activist Roger Yates, Black Panther and anarchist Ashanti Alston, British historian and activist John Charlton, British sociologist and activist Colin Barker, Dublin Community Television founder Margaret Gillan, Bil'in protest leader Iyad Burnat, the committee of the Scarlet Alliance sex workers organisation and labour organiser Eric Lee.