There are four themes that weave their way through the research thread on Mobilisations, Interventions, and Cultural Policy in this issue. First, there is concern with intervention—intervention into the politics and practices of social movements and intervention into the academy and its traditions of knowledge production. Second, each text is situated firmly within a recognition and appreciation of social movements as knowledge producers. Third, all three contributions are unequivocally located in an urban context and the contemporary condition of inhabiting the city. Finally, what emerges from each reflection is a commitment to militant research and practice, as one that keeps ever-present an awareness of the relationship of research to existing material social relations of power and a commitment to confronting and transforming these very relations.
Articles by Emma Dowling
\Emma Dowlng is Lecturer in Ethics, Governance and Accountability at Queen Mary, University of London. She is the author of \'Producing the Dining Experience -- Measure, Subjectivity and the Affective Worker\' (2007) in the issue 7.1 of the journal Ephemera, a special issue about immaterial and affective labour that she co-edited with Ben Trott and Rodrigo Nunes and \'The Waitress -- On Affect, Method and (Re) presentation\', in Cultural Studies - Critical Methodologies (forthcoming, 2012). She recently contributed to the collection Occupy Everything. Reflections on Why It\'s Kicking Off Everywhere, edited by A. Lunghi and S. Wheeler (2012, Minor Compositions) and is a contributor to a forthcoming special issue of the journal Social Justice on \'Conflicts within the Crisis.\'\