Theorizing Power, Difference and the Politics of Social Change: Problems and Possibilities in Assemblage Thinking

This special issue of <em>Studies in Social Justice</em> explores the potential of assemblage thinking for apprehending contemporary social movements and the relations among them across global time and space. It grows out of a 2016 symposium sponsored by Brock University&rsquo;s Social Justice Research Institute, entitled, <em>Global Movement Assemblages: Continuities, Differences, </em><em>and Connectivities</em>. The symposium&rsquo;s aim was to deploy assemblage thinking to make better sense of the wave of popular democratic uprisings since 2010, while also considering its risks, limitations and possibilities.