Laurence Cox

Laurence Cox is an interdisciplinary researcher, writer and educator whose work explores two key aspects of the making of the modern world: how can we understand the extraordinary variety of ways in which social movements from below have developed and sometimes reshaped societies, and how has the long historical conversation between “Eastern” and “Western” cultures been mediated through the globalisation of Buddhisms?

Laurence is a Dublin-based writer, teacher and activist, and one of Europe’s best-known social movement researchers. He’s been in many different movements starting with anti-war and anti-apartheid activism in the 1980s, including helping organise the anti-capitalist “movement of movements” in Ireland, media spokesperson for a summit protest, resisting Shell, networking between movements and parties, alternative schools and kindergartens, co-running a Masters for activists, helping organise a Zapatista tour and editing several radical publications, most recently the activist-researcher social movement journal Interface.
In his day job as a researcher, he’s written or edited a dozen books as well as lots of free stuff which you can find here. Once he was a street musician but now prefers plumbing wood-fired hot tubs in a field for Buddhist camping retreats.