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Sarah Jaffe hosts... Guerrilla Democracy: Mobile Power and Revolution in the 21st Century

Dates
Tuesday, July 20, 2021 - 18:30 to 20:00
Location
Online via Microsoft Teams
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OUBS Events Team

Sarah Jaffe hosts… Guerrilla Democracy: Mobile Power and Revolution in the 21st Century. 

Join us on the launch day of the new book 'Guerrilla Democracy: Mobile Power and Revolution in the 21st Century' from Dr Peter Bloom and OUBS academics Dr Owain Smolović Jones and Dr Jamie Woodcock.

Hosted by acclaimed author and labour journalist Sarah Jaffe, this event will discuss key themes from the book and their relevance for contemporary work and social struggles.

Has the liberating potential of big data and digital media been dealt a fatal blow by the nightmare of election meddling, privacy invasion and the oppressions of the gig economy?

Is there still a pathway for liberation and emancipation through digital technology and what does that look like?

Who is the Guerrilla Democrat and how can we all cultivate our inner guerrillas?

Sarah and the authors will be discussing these issues and more in relation to current struggles – from Deliveroo, Uber and refuse worker strikes through to battles for human dignity and justice in the face of oppressive state power.

Watch the recording

Special offer:

The Paperback issue of this book will be available at £20 between 20-27 July when ordered from the Bristol University Press website with the code POB21.

Host

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Sarah Jaffe

Sarah Jaffe is a Type Media Center fellow and an independent journalist covering the politics of power, from the workplace to the streets. The author of Necessary Trouble, she has written for The New York Times, The Guardian, The Nation and many other outlets. Her most recent book is Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted and Alone. She tweets as @sarahljaffe.

About the authors

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Dr Peter Bloom

Peter Bloom is a Professor of Management at the University of Essex. His research critically explores the radical possibilities of technology for redefining and transforming contemporary work and society. It focuses on better understanding the human aspects of organizational existence and the potentially for constructing more empowering cultural paradigms for organising the economy and politics.

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Dr Owain Smolović Jones

Owain Smolović Jones is director of The Open University's Research into Employment, Empowerment and Futures (REEF) academic centre of excellence. He is a leadership researcher who is currently focusing on how place, space and technology shape leadership practice. With Keith Grint, he has developed the 5Ps model of leadership – person, process, position, product and purpose – due to be published in a new book in late 2021/early 2022.

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Dr Jamie Woodcock

Jamie Woodcock is a senior lecturer at The Open University and a researcher based in London. He is the author of The Fight Against Platform Capitalism (University of Westminster Press, 2021), The Gig Economy (Polity, 2019), Marx at the Arcade (Haymarket, 2019), and Working the Phones (Pluto, 2017).

Jamie's is a member of REEF and his research is inspired by workers' inquiry and focuses on labour, work, the gig economy, platforms, resistance, organising, and videogames. He is also on the editorial board of Notes from Below and Historical Materialism.