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Graeme Hayes

 

Dr Graeme Hayes

Aston University

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Graeme Hayes is Reader in Political Sociology and Head of Department of Sociology and Policy at Aston University. His research focuses primarily on environmental social movements, civil disobedience, and the criminal trials of activists for their participation in non-violent direct action. He is joint Editor of the journal Environmental Politics, and Consulting Editor for the journal Social Movement Studies, of which he was Editor in chief from 2010-15.

Work w/ CUSP

Graeme is working in collaboration with colleagues including Brian Doherty, Marit Hammond, Clare Saunders, and Graham Smith on the ‘new climate activism’, and particularly on the contours and possibilities of a developing democratic public agency in the time of climate emergency.

Recent books

Isabelle Sommier, Graeme Hayes and Sylvie Ollitrault. 2019. Breaking Laws. Violence and Civil Disobedience in Protest. Amsterdam: Amsterdam UP.

Cristina Flesher Fominaya and Graeme Hayes (eds). 2017. Resisting Austerity. Collective Action in Europe in the Wake of the Global Financial Crisis. London: Routledge.

Jenny Pickerill, John Krinsky, Graeme Hayes, Kevin Gillan and Brian Doherty (eds). 2014. Occupy! A Global Movement. Hope, Tactics and Challenges. London: Routledge.

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