Swimming in Thames

Michael Biggs  B.A. Hons (Victoria University of Wellington), Ph.D. (Harvard)

Lecturer in Sociology and Fellow of St Cross College, University of Oxford

address: Department of Sociology, Manor Road, Oxford, OX1 3UQ, United Kingdom
email: michael.biggs@sociology.ox.ac.uk
phone:
01865 286 174    fax: 01865 286 171


Teaching Research students Potential research topics Publications Curriculum vitae

My research centres on social movements and collective protest:

Membership of the Knights of Labour

1. Dynamics of protest waves

• strikes for the eight-hour day in the United States, 1886
sit-ins in the American South, 1960


Suffragette poster

2. Self-inflicted suffering as protest

self-immolation
• hunger strikes



BNP mapMembership in the British National Party



Cartography and state formation      Self-fulfilling prophecies

Cartography and state formationSelf-fullfilling prophecies