How can social movements and communities most effectively organize for sustainable socio-economic, political, and cultural transformation?
Jeffrey Juris was an associate professor of Anthropology at Northeastern University in Boston. Jeffrey examined the issues, strategies, and tactics that inspired and shaped emerging forms of radical social movement activism. He paid particular attention to how activists use new digital technologies to build innovative networks that are locally rooted yet globally linked. Throughout his research in Barcelona, the U.S., and Mexico, he carved out a militant ethnographic approach that challenged the divide between activist and researcher, using his dual position as an organizer and anthropologist to generate practical knowledge and new theoretical understandings.
Jeffrey passed away on June 18, 2020.
Jeffrey S. Juris, Erica G. Bushell, Meghan Doran, J. Matthew Judge, Amy Lubitow, Bryan Maccormack, and Christopher Prener (2014). Social Movement Studies: Journal of Social, Cultural and Political Protest 13(3): 328-348.