Ryan Mann-Hamilton

Student Fellow

Ryan Mann-Hamilton is a Ph.D candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center Dept. of Anthropology and a board member of the afrolatin@ forum. He has an Undergraduate degree in International Studies and a Masters in Environmental Systems with a focus on renewable technologies and community development. Ryan has taught courses in History, Anthropology and Ethnic Studies and has worked for many years as a community organizer and popular educator giving a variety of workshops on social justice issues, environmental activism and social constructions of race.

Participating Years

2012–2013

Uprisings: in History, in Process, in the Future

The last year has witnessed an extraordinary flowering of political and social protest across the globe. Each location of struggle, whether the revolutions sometimes called the “Arab Spring” or the vigorous demonstrations of the “Occupy Wall Street” movement, provides important lessons in how we understand social change in the current conjuncture.What is the longue durée of such struggle? How do uprisings reconfigure the social? How are they represented and is representation itself an uprising?