Marina Sitrin holds a PhD in Global Sociology and a JD in International Womens’ Human Rights. She is a visiting scholar at the Center for Place Culture and Politics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. In addition to being a scholar, Marina has been active in occupy movements worldwide. She is the co-author of They (Verso 2014), Can’t Represent Us: Reinventing Democracy from Greece to Occupy author of (Zed 2012) Everyday Revolutions: Horizontalism and Autonomy in Argentina and editor of (AK 2006). Her work Horizontalism: Voices of Popular Power in Argentina focuses on social movements and justice, specifically looking at forms of social organization, such as prefigurative politics and affective autogestión, horizontalidad, social relationships. Marina is currently writing a book that rethinks social movement theory, based in contemporary global movements, challenging the contentious politics framework and using Raul Zibechi’s frame of societies in movement. She is also a book with Bill Fletcher Jr. on the question of strategy for movement building today, to be published by UC Press.
Marina Sitrin holds a PhD in Global Sociology and a JD in International Womens’ Human Rights. She is a visiting scholar at the Center for Place Culture and Politics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. In addition to being a scholar, Marina has been active in occupy movements worldwide. She is the co-author of They Can’t Represent Us: Reinventing Democracy from Greece to Occupy (Verso 2014), author of Everyday Revolutions: Horizontalism and Autonomy in Argentina (Zed 2012) and editor of Horizontalism: Voices of Popular Power in Argentina (AK 2006). Her work focuses on social movements and justice, specifically looking at forms of social organization, such as autogestión, horizontalidad, prefigurative politics and affective social relationships. Marina is currently writing a book that rethinks social movement theory, based in contemporary global movements, challenging the contentious politics framework and using Raul Zibechi’s frame of societies in movement. She is also a book with Bill Fletcher Jr. on the question of strategy for movement building today, to be published by UC Press.
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