Felipe G. Santos

Media Articles

I enjoy sharing my opinion about politics through media articles and speaking at public events. You can follow the links below to see some of them:

• The global pandemic has spawned new forms of activism – and they’re flourishing. The Guardian (2020). (with Erica Chenoweth, Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick, Jeremy Pressman and Jay Ulfelder).

• ¿Volveremos a las calles? Disposición a protestar durante la pandemia. El País (2020). (with Olga Onuch).

• El confinamiento estimula la creatividad política: cien formas de protesta que no implican salir a la calle. El Diario. (with Erica Chenoweth, Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick, Jeremy Pressman and Jay Ulfelder).

• Entrevista a Donatella della Porta: “La presencia de movimientos sociales a nivel europeo es fundamental para que la Unión Europea exista”. El Salto (2019)

• La ‘Ley Esclavista’ une a los movimientos sociales en un ciclo de protesta sin precedentes en la historia de Hungría. El Salto (2019)

• La Univeristat d'Europa Central tanca a Hongria per la pressió del govern. Diari Ara (2019)

• Precariat spring: Spanish social movements get ready for a new cycle of mobilisation. openDemocracy (2018)

• La primavera del Precariado: los movimientos sociales españoles se preparan para un nuevo ciclo de movilización. democraciaAbierta (2018)

• Why both the Spanish and the Catalan governments think they come out reinforced from the referendum. openDemocracy (2018)

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Podcasts

I generally host interviews at the New Books Network, the biggest author-interview podcast on the web. You can click on the links below to listen to some of them:

• Chandra Russo on Solidarity in Practice: Moral Protest and the US Security State (Cambridge University Press 2019)

• Laurence Cox on Why Social Movements Matter (Rowman and Littlefield 2018)

• Donatella della Porta on Legacies and Memories in Movements: Justice and Democracy in Southern Europe (Oxford University Press, 2018)

• James M. Jasper on The Emotions of Protests (University of Chicago Press, 2018)

• Lorenzo Zamponi on Social Movements, Memory and Media: Narrative in Action in the Italian and Spanish Student Movements (Palgrave, 2018)

• Discussion of massive online peer review and open access publishing with Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick, author of The Good Drone: How Social Movements Democratize Surveillance (MIT Press, 2020)