The research box: What we watched, read and listened to when making Revolutions

Fuller’s research and resources on revolutions, from Sudan to Bangladesh

This edition asks what it means to report globally on revolutions through a gender lens. The resources shared below, including music, films, arts and reporting that shaped our work, offer a window into how Fuller’s team approached these questions across different contexts, from courts and factories to digital spaces and the streets.

Books 

If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution | Vincent Bevins 

Insurrection | Liam O’Flaherty

Las estructuras elementales de la violencia | Rita Segato

Men in Dark Times | Hannah Arendt 

Surveillance Capitalism | Shoshana Zuboff 

The spirit of Hope | Byun Chul Hang

You have not yet been defeated | Alaa Abd el-Fattah

Uprising | Tahmima Anam

Women, Resistance and Revolution: A History of Women and Revolution in the Modern World | Sheila Rowbotham


Art 

Freedom and Resistance: 1619 | Exhibition

Illustrations | Pilar Emitxin

Illustrations | Joe Sacco 

Nine Eyes by Jon Rafman | Exhibition

Women in Recent Revolutionary Iconography | IWM WEBSITE 

Subh-e-Aazadi | Poem by Faiz Ahmad Faiz


Watch

Gender-Based Digital Transnational Repression Explained | Video from The Citizen Lab 

Gidam: Drums of protest in Khartoum | Documentary by Arthur Larie and Bastien Massa

Improving the Life of Bangladeshi Garment Workers | Kalpona Akter at #BoFVOICES 2018

Rana Plaza Collapse: The Deadly Cost of Fashion | Documentary by The New York Times

The Dark Side of Bangladesh’s Garment Industry | Documentary by Real Stories

The Lives of Others | Film by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck


Listen

Civicus Voices, a podcast on the right to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly 

Exposing Pegasus podcast: How the State Spies on You | John Scott-Railton 

EFF's Eva Galperin Is Not the Pope of Fighting Stalkerware (But She Is) podcast | What the hack 

Ron Deibert: ‘We’re living in a Philip K. Dick novel’ podcast - Click here | Recorded Future News 

Ana Tijoux | Antipatriarca 

Dastoor [Habib Jalib] | Ammar Rashid

Rebeca Lane | Ni encerradas ni con miedo

Maya Shenfeld | Voyager & Album “In Free Wall” 

Swans | Birthing 

Chico Buarque | Apesar de Você

Crude mix 237 | Milana 

Ana Malo b2b sioc | Psycle 

Elza Soares | A Carne

Lila Downs | La Patria Madrina

Read 

Bangladeshi Women Turned a Movement Into a Revolution. Then They Disappeared. | The Fuller Project

Civicus Monitor tracks civil space globally | Data

Computer vision dazzle as resistance to facial recognition tech | Dazed

Gaza as an AI lab for Israel | The Cairo Overview of Global Affairs 

Gender-based violence & psychosocial support | Irish Consortium on Gender-based Violence

How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very | The Guardian

ICE just bought a scary amount of surveillance tech | Electronic Frontier Foundation

Mothers of the revolution | New Internationalist

Seeing the world through Sudan | Curated by Bayan Abubakr Sudan’s story is far from a tragedy | Prospect Magazine

The Arab uprisings: A decade of struggles | Longreads 

The inside story of how Gen Z toppled Nepal’s leader and chose a new one on discord | Wired 

The mass protest decade: why did the street movements of the 2010s fail? | The Guardian

“They Tried to Bury Us, They Didn’t Know We Were Seeds” | Hyperallergenic

Time and the 1947 Abeokuta Women’s Revolt | History Workshop 

Where Do We Go From Here? | Acai Magazine

Curated by: Ester Pinheiro
Editor: Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff
Visuals editor: Ethan Caliva

Curated by: Ester Pinheiro
Editor: Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff
Visuals editor: Ethan Caliva

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