Carol Skalnik Leff is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, the Department of Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, and the Department of Global Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is also the author of Elite Transformation in Post-Communist Europe.
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Dialogues and Disruptions
The content of Mobilizing Ideas occurs in two threads. The Essay Dialogue is an exchange on a salient topic, featuring insights from scholars and activists, occurring over the course of two months. The Daily Disruption is a blog covering social movements news, from current events to new research by emerging movements scholars. Use the menu at the top or the links below to access either of these full threads.Links to Dialogue Topics and the Daily Disruption
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Recent Dialogue and DD Posts
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- Resistances and Authoritarian Threat
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- The Anti-Trump Resistance and Beyond: Building a Progressive Movement
- Repression of Black Social Movements
- Thinking Orientals: Migration, Contract, and Exoticism in Modern America: A Review
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Top Posts & Pages
- Social Movements: How People Make History
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- The Mixed Blessing of Donald Trump for Progressive Protest
- The Anti-Trump Resistance and Beyond: Building a Progressive Movement
- The Practice of Social Movement Leadership
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