Social Movement Studies Journal

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Woman, life, freedom movement: dynamics of a movement in progress Mahsa (Zhina) Amini, a young Kurdish woman who had travelled to Tehran to visit her family, died in the custody of the morality police on 16 September 2022 for allegedly not wearing her hijab prope...

[Profile] "Woman, life, freedom movement: dynamics of a movement in progress", by Simin Fadaee:

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Attention, shocks, and relevance judgements: the case of white nationalism in the U.S. South, 1980–2008 Why do white nationalist organizations (WNOs) focus attention on the issues they do? I draw from social movement studies, organizational studies, and social psychology to explain why WNOs shift att...

"Attention, shocks, and relevance judgements: the case of white nationalism in the U.S. South, 1980–2008", by Marshall A. Taylor:

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Negotiating politics on campus: dynamic (de-)politicization among student activists in post-2011 Egypt This article examines processes of (de-) politicization among Egyptian student activists in the post-2011 context. Based on ethnographic observation, interviews and focus groups, I argue that the r...

"Negotiating politics on campus: dynamic (de-)politicization among student activists in post-2011 Egypt", by Farah Ramzy:

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Explaining the impact of citizens’ initiatives on social movements: insights from the Spanish housing movement How do instruments of direct democracy affect the social movement organisations that sponsor them? Drawing on social movement studies and direct democracy research, we argue that direct democracy h...

"Explaining the impact of citizens’ initiatives on social movements: insights from the Spanish housing movement", by Montserrat Emperador Badimon:

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The socializing nature of protest events. Consequences of the 15-M protests on participants’ political engagement over time In spite of the widespread belief that firsthand experience with protest is able to change participants’ hearts and minds, the empirical evidence tracking actual changes after participation in prot...

"The socializing nature of protest events. Consequences of the 15-M protests on participants’ political engagement over time", by Carol Galais, Araceli Mateos & Eva Anduiza:

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The participatory legacy of mobilization and repression: evidence from a student movement Studies of the participatory legacies of social movements in democratic settings often find that the individuals who take part in these movements remain more likely to engage in politics, decades l...

[Open access] "The participatory legacy of mobilization and repression: evidence from a student movement", by Scott W. Desposato, Cal Zurich & Jason Y. Wu:

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Towards effective women’s movements against violence: the role of organizational conditions in promoting leadership capital Over recent years, increasing violence in Latin American countries has led women’s movements against violence to face challenging circumstances while advancing their goals. Attention has recently t...

"Towards effective women’s movements against violence: the role of organizational conditions in promoting leadership capital", by Laura Gutiérrez Zárate:

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‘How many cops to arrest climate chaos?’ Mass policing of protests at COP26 In advance of the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) summit in Glasgow in 2021, Police Scotland insisted that human rights and facilitation would be central to their operation. When the event p...

[Open access] "‘How many cops to arrest climate chaos?’ Mass policing of protests at COP26", by Hugo Gorringe, Michael Rosie, Stephen Reicher, Jennie Portice, Selin Tekin & Michael Hamilton:

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Prepping as implicit activism: risk, danger, and post-capitalist imaginaries in prepper literature This paper explores the increasingly widespread practice of prepping, and examines how it differs from conventional forms of activism, which generally involve explicit and purposeful efforts to ins...

Starting off with an open access article: "Prepping as implicit activism: risk, danger, and post-capitalist imaginaries in prepper literature", by Erik Mygind du Plessis & Emil Husted:

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Social Movement Studies Volume 24, Issue 6 of Social Movement Studies

Since a new issue is due to drop soon, let's have a more in-depth look at our current issue: Volume 24, Issue 6! 🧵

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Anti-leftism as an aesthetic in white power punk White Power music scenes embrace both White Supremacy and the music cultures they situate themselves in. For White Power punk scenes, there is a reliance on the shaping and utilization of punk aest...

Woo! It's been a long wait but my new article is now published in @socmovstudies.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

Second "No Kings Day" protests the largest single-day political protest ever*, with 5.2-8.2 million participants Here are the initial results from our crowdsourced crowd-counting estimates

“Largest single-day protest in American history.” Roughly 2% of the population rose up to demand the restoration of democracy. So powerful.
From @gelliottmorris.com

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Understanding protest scripts: the anti-containment protests in Germany and Italy during the COVID-19 pandemic The pandemic did not bring protest politics to a halt. Instead, it sparked diverse and divergent forms of contention. This study compares the development and characteristics of anti-containment pro...

Out now @socmovstudies.bsky.social: we introduce the concept of a "protest script" & demonstrate how video-enhanced protest event analysis (vPEA) helps trace a common script of the Italian and German anti-containment protests.

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Nepal. Wow. Hope we get some interesting submissions on that at some point.

Haymarket Books for Fighting Fascism “Fascism, it’s always about using nationalism, and the nation, as a bludgeon to generate support for death policies, on behalf of death governments. For violence and repression and exploitation, inter...

Haymarket Books for Fighting Fascism

New and final issue of the year coming soon! Chock full of great articles! Climate activism, 15-M, women's movements, housing movements, "preppers" and more! Stay tuned!

Deadly U.S. Strike on Venezuelan Boat Raises Fears of Wider War: Greg Grandin Acclaimed historian Greg Grandin joins Democracy Now! to discuss the Trump administration’s attack on an alleged drug-smuggling boat in international waters, which killed 11 people earlier this week. ...

“In many ways, it’s bringing the logic of Gaza into the Caribbean, in terms of unaccountability, impunity and an expansive notion of national defense to justify what is, in effect, just extrajudicial killing.”

Indonesia Protests: At Least 10 Killed, Thousands Arrested Amid Police Crackdown Authorities in Indonesia have launched a brutal crackdown on nationwide protests, sparked by outrage over generous housing allowances and other perks for politicians amid a deepening cost-of-living cr...

“The underlying issue is economic inequality.”

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Israel bombed the Mushtaha Tower in Gaza City, leveling the 12-story building as part of a larger escalation aimed at depopulating the largest urban center in the Palestinian territory.

Not seeing the forest for the helicopters: UNESCO recognition and resistance to the US military in Okinawa Previous studies have found that when activists’ demands are not met by their home government, activists may adopt transnational strategies to levy international pressure on their government. While...

I really enjoyed reading this piece! “Not seeing the forest for the helicopters: UNESCO recognition and resistance to the US military in Okinawa” in Social Movement Studies: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @cnwillis.bsky.social

Things have been busy and we have also been trying to get some well earned vacation time over the summer. But this is to say: We appreciate all of you reviewers, authors, readers, and supporters! We have another great issue dropping soon, and we are so glad to have such wonderful community (you)!

This column does not express support for Palestine Action – here’s why | Owen Jones In Britain’s increasingly authoritarian society, any sort of protest can find itself at odds with the law. You might even go to jail, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

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Protests in the United States on Palestine and Israel, 2023–2024 From 7 October 2023 to 7 June 2024, the Crowd Counting Consortium recorded nearly 12,400 pro-Palestine protests and over 2,000 pro-Israel protests in the United States. Since January 2017, when CCC...

Protests in the United States on Palestine and Israel, 2023–2024: Social Movement Studies: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Diffusion as a colonizing process and the challenges of decolonizing Extinction Rebellion Aotearoa New Zealand The Extinction Rebellion (XR) model, including three demands and a disruptive theory of change, were transferred from the imperial center of the United Kingdom to Aotearoa. Initially activists assu...

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Strategic innovation and mobilization barriers: labor movement campaigning amidst Lebanon’s economic collapse This paper addresses the potential for labor movements to drive popular opposition in countries where ruling elites dominate civil society and public institutions. While past studies have examined ...

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Coalition-building as a power resource: Transnational collaborations between global unions and non-union actors This article explores how the global unions use coalition-building as a power resource in three different types of transnational labour campaigns. The first is an enabling campaign for seafood work...

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Epistemic historising and the pillars of independent living This article explores epistemic injustices faced by disabled people, and particularly by the members of the Independent Living (IL) movement – a new social movement that emerged in the late 1960s t...

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