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by Laurence Cox, Shewly Hosna, Eva Gerharz, Lia Pinheiro Barbosa, Pinar Temocin, Louise Caffrey, marios panierakis, Thomas Cury, Antônio A Braighi, Marco Túlio Câmara, Giorgos Charalambous, Kei Takata, and dawn paley Interface, 2021
Like many of the movement projects we work with around the world, Interface is living in interest... more Like many of the movement projects we work with around the world, Interface is living in interesting times. The rise of new authoritarianisms, far-right movements and state and freelance repression of movement spaces and radical academic work create pressure on some of us individually and on the other projects we are involved in. The ongoing pandemic, the crisis of care it has highlighted and the sudden transformations of work particularly for the precarious have disrupted the time and energy of many activists and engaged researchers. Many of our editors have had to put their engagement in the project on hold for the duration of the crisis as they struggle in solidarity with their own movements, with people immediately in need, with their students and colleagues and as they try to cope with the disruptions of their own lives. Others of us have not been able to do as much as we had hoped. "And yet, it moves!" We are still here, starting to recover and with new editors beginning to join us, part of global movement struggles to resist crisis politics from above and the attempt to impose a "new normal" that reinscribes racism and patriarchy, capitalism and authoritarianism, climate death and cultural destruction on our planet. Now, more than ever, movements "from below and on the left" around the planet need to be talking to and learning from each other, to find out what works and what doesn't, and to make many worlds possible in place of the one devastation the Empire offers us.
Papers by Kei Takata
Moving the Social, 2020
This paper is a sociological and historical investigation of the transnational alliances in the J... more This paper is a sociological and historical investigation of the transnational alliances in the Japanese sixties movement. From the mid-1960s to 1970s, some Japanese New Left movements had prevailed by taking part in transnational activism. Yet, these movements had then bifurcated into two directions; those that were linked primarily with the western First World on the one hand and movements that were connected to the Third World revolutionary movements on the other hand. This paper explores the reasons for such bridging and division of transnational ties. By looking specifically at the civic anti-Vietnam War movement of Beheiren and the clandestine movement of the Japanese Red Army, the paper argues that it was the culture that had both bridged and created holes between the network clusters. Through investigation of the culture (ideology, beliefs, taste, etc.) and biographical backgrounds (class consciousness, generation, and memory) of each group member, the paper suggests that th...
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Complete journal issues by Kei Takata
Papers by Kei Takata