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Papers

(The median citation count of Social Movement Studies is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
New kids on the block: taking stock of the recent cycle of climate activism	145
Street protests in times of COVID-19: adjusting tactics and marching ‘as usual’	59
Politicisation beyond post-politics: new social activism and the reconfiguration of political discourse	42
Climate change or what? Prognostic framing by Fridays for Future protesters	38
Mutual Aid in north London during the Covid-19 pandemic	27
Commons: a social outcome of the movement of the squares	27
Brexit as ‘politics of division’: social media campaigning after the referendum	24
Covid19 and protest repertoires in the United States: an initial description of limited change	22
Time for change	20
Opinion leadership in a leaderless movement: discussion of the anti-extradition bill movement in the ‘LIHKG’ web forum	18
Mock meat, masculinity, and redemption narratives: vegan men’s negotiations and performances of gender and eating	17
A “stylistic anti-populism”: an analysis of the Sardine movement’s opposition to Matteo Salvini in Italy	16
Instagram and social capital: youth activism in a networked movement	14
Anti-nationalist Europeans and pro-European nativists on the streets: visions of Europe from the left to the far right	14
Public opinion, media and activism: the differentiating role of media use and perceptions of public opinion on political behaviour	12
Proactive internationalization and diaspora mobilization in a networked movement: the case of Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Bill protests	11
The revolution will wear burqas: feminist body politics and online activism in India	11
Making a deal with the devil? Portuguese and Finnish activists’ everyday negotiations on the value of social media	11
From social mobilisation to institutional politics: Reflecting on the impact of municipalism in Madrid and Barcelona	10
Bringing grievances back into social movement research: the conceptual and empirical case	10
Urban movements and municipalist governments in Spain: alliances, tensions, and achievements	9
Connective action or collective inertia? Emotion, cognition, and the limits of digitally networked resistance	9
Transgressive protest after a democratic transition: The Kamour Campaign in Tunisia	9
Interpreting Unrest: How Violence changes Public Opinions about Social Movements	8
Professionals in Revolt: Specialized Networks and Sectoral Mobilization in Hong Kong	8

‘We are all refugees’: how migrant grassroots activism disrupts exclusionary legal categories	8
Modelling the mediating effect of multiple emotions in a cycle of territorial protests	7
Aiming for Achilles’ Heel: A relational explanation of the ascendency of pro-nuclear activism in Taiwan, 2013-2020	6
Bringing the future into the present: the notion of emergency in the youth climate movement	6
Protester-police fraternization in the 2013 Gezi Park uprisings	6
‘Building future politics’: projectivity and prefigurative politics in a Swedish social center	6
The Swarm versus the Grassroots: places and networks of supporters and opponents of Black Lives Matter on Twitter	6
Protesting the police: an analysis of the correlates of support for police reform following the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests	6
Unpacking the ‘anti-diet movement’: domination and strategies of resistance in the broad anti-diet community	5
Politicizing Europe on the far right: Anti-EU mobilization across the party and non-party sector in France	5
‘We hugged each other during the cold nights’: the role of affect in an anti-deportation protest network in Finland	5
Strategizing post-protest activism in abeyance: retaining activist capital under political constraint	5
Labor’s reversal of fortune: contentious politics and executive aggrandizement in Indonesia	5
(Re)mobilizing labour. A lesson from recent labour struggles in Italy	5
Arenas of fragile alliance making. Space and interaction in precarious migrant protest in Berlin and Vienna	5
Imagination, decolonization, and intersectionality: the #RhodesMustFall student occupations in Cape Town, South Africa	5
The politics of alliances. The making and breaking of social movement coalitions. Introduction to the special issue	5
Amplification, evasion, hijacking: algorithms as repertoire for social movements and the struggle for visibility	5
Emotions and climate strike participation among young and old demonstrators	5
Mobilising around Europe: a conceptual framework and introduction to the special section	4
‘Vaccine passports equal Apartheid’: Covid-19 and parliamentary occupation in Aotearoa New Zealand	4
The Copenhagen Experiment: testing the effectiveness of creative vs. conventional forms of activism	4
Institutional actors’ participation in social movement: examining the roles of perceived damage to work reputation, collective efficacy, and communication patterns	4
Transforming urban democracy through social movements: the experience of Ahora Madrid	4
Diffusion of intersectionality across contemporary Spanish activism: the case of Las Kellys	4
LGBTQ activism in repressive contexts: the struggle for (in)visibility in Egypt, Tunisia and Turkey	4
Identity as a barrier: claiming universality as a strategy in the Israeli vegan movement	4
Slow justice: a framework for tracing diffusion and legacies of resistance	4
Politics of anticipation: Turkey’s 2017 Constitutional Referendum and the Local ‘No’ Assemblies in Istanbul	4
What has become of the Indignados? The biographical consequences of participation in the 15M movement in Madrid (2011–19)	4
Doubt to be certain: epistemological ambiguity of data in the case of grassroots mapping of traffic accidents in Russia	4
Prefiguration and the post-representational politics of anti-deportation activism	4
PROFILE: Extinction rebellion: greening vanguardism?	4
From another Europe to beyond Europe? Visions of Europe in movements	4
Framing health and care: legacies and innovation during the pandemic	4
The recovery of protest in Japan: from the ‘ice age’ to the post-2011 movements	4
Learning democracy through activism: the global climate strike movement and Belgian youth’s democratic experience in times of environmental emergency	4
Caring Democracy Now: Neighborhood Support Networks in the Wake of the 15-M	4
Egypt’s 2011 uprising, subaltern cultural politics, and revolutionary weakness	4
Mobilizing precarious workers in Italy: two pathways of collective action intentions	4
The temporal nexus of collective memory mediation: print and digital media in Brazil’s Landless Movement 1984-2019	3
Demobilising far-right demonstration campaigns: Coercive counter-mobilisation, state social control, and the demobilisation of the Hess Gedenkmarsch campaign	3
Social movements’ transformative climate change communication: extinction rebellion’s artivism	3
When digital capitalism takes (on) the neighbourhood: data activism meets place-based collective action	3
Coordinating and doxing data: Hong Kong protesters’ and government supporters’ data strategies in the age of datafication	3
Repression and bystander mobilization in Africa	3
Did the pandemic spread populism? comparative study on the transformations of citizen movements in Chile and Hong Kong	3
Utopia, future imaginations and prefigurative politics in the indigenous women’s movement in Argentina	3
Social movements as schooling for careers: career consequences of the Nashville civil rights movement	3
Combining emotions: hope, anger, joy, and love in Israeli peace movements	3

The power of slogans: using protest writings in social movement research	3
Transgressing taboos: the relational dynamics of claim radicalization in Hong Kong and Thailand	3
The influence of social movements on policy change: delayed success in banning dog slaughter in Germany	3
Transitional justice for whom? Contention over human rights and justice in Tunisia	3
Organising outsourced workers in UK’s new trade unionism - emotions, protest, and collective identity	3
Contentious gender politics in Italy and Croatia: diffusion of transnational anti-gender movements to national contexts	3
Doing and undoing gender: women on the frontline of Hong Kong’s anti-extradition bill movement	3
Profile: Blending old and new repertoires of contention in Myanmar’s anti-coup protests (2021)	3
Our good is the public good – reframing the communication of professional groups. Anatomy of the resident doctors’ protests in Poland	3
“The future of the internet hangs in the balance”: the perception and framing of political opportunity and threat in the contentious politics of data	2
Fields of contention as a prism: toward a nuanced role of parties and civil society actors in protest interactions	2
Anti-fracking campaigns in the United Kingdom: the influence of local opportunity structures on protest	2
Amplifying dignity in the neoliberal city: the Pobladores movement in Chile	2
Populism in abeyance: the survival of populist repertoires of contention in North Italy	2
The digital divide within the women’s movement in Ghana: Implications for voice and inclusion	2
Leading with hearts and minds: emotion contagion in China’s online activism	2
Conceptualizing the context of collective action: an introduction	2
“I’m sick of doing nothing:” how boredom shapes rape crisis center volunteers’ social movement participation	2
#MahsaAmini: Iranian Twitter Activism in Times of Computational Propaganda	2
Climate crisis, neoliberal environmentalism and the self: the case of ‘inner transition’	2
‘A proper environmentalist wouldn’t do that’: discourses of alienation from the environmental periphery	2
The causes, content and consequences of repression: A framework for analyzing protest control in the counter-extremism era	2
Defending democracy against the ‘Corona dictatorship’? Far-right PEGIDA during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Adversaries of advertising: anti-consumerism and subvertisers’ critique and practice	2
A tale of two campaigns: understanding the role of short-term political context in Czech and Slovak counter/mobilizing on migration	2
The rise of a new media ecosystem: exploring 15M’s educommunicative legacy for radical democracy	2
Workforces and local communities against corporate restructuring: a comparative case study of resistance to plant closures in Northern Spain	2
Fearful or fearless? The impact of fear on feminist activism	2
Fighting gentrification from the boxing ring: how community gyms reclaim the right to the city	2
Targeted appeals: online social movement frame packaging and tactics customized for youth	2
Social movement–voter interaction: a case study of electoral communication by The People’s Assembly Against Austerity in the UK	2
Achieving Organizationality Through Authorship Affordances — A Communicative Episode of Telegram Polling from 2019 Hong Kong	2
Close but not too close: opposition network strategy and democratization in Zambia	2
Strikes, general assemblies and institutional insurgency: explaining the persistence of the Québec student movement	2
After the Protest: Istanbul Park Forums and People’s Engagement in Political Action	2
Invoking intersectionality: discursive mobilisations in feminism of the radical left	2
Imagining sovereign futures: the marriage equality movement in Taiwan	2
Political party affiliation strength and protest participation propensity: theory and evidence from Africa	2
Recasting solidarity during the COVID-19 pandemic: a case study	2
Activism and affective labor for digital direct action: the Mexican #MeToo campaign	2
Re-thinking solidarity movements as infrastructure during the COVID-19 pandemic crisis: insights from Athens	2
Embodied, embedded or both? Investigating experts and expertise in two Greater Boston social movements	1
What leads a movement to disband? Frictions within the Kopi Badati movement, Ambon, Indonesia	1
Maintaining nonviolent selfdiscipline in hostile protest environments: evidence from the 2019 Baghdad protests	1
‘Institutions of governance are all corrupted’: anti-political collective identity of anti-lockdown protesters in digital and physical spaces	1
Stir into flame: charisma in the US draft resistance movement	1
Assessing the effect of activists and their legislative allies in the amendment of bills in Chile	1
Based on a true story: the use of conversion stories in social movements	1
Populism in the civil sphere Populism in the civil sphere , edited by Jeffrey C. Alexander, Peter Kivisto, and Giuseppe Sciortino, Cambridge, Polity, 2021, xii + 316 pp.	1
Between community and sectarianism: calling out and negotiated discipline in prefigurative politics	1
Mutual aid and solidarity politics in times of emergency: direct social action and temporality in Italy during the COVID-19 pandemic	1
Black lives matter and imagined futures of racial dynamics in the US	1
Reactionary democracy: how racism and the populist far right became mainstream	1
15-M movement and feminist economics: an insight into the dialogues between social movements and academia in Spain	1
‘Love is over, this is going to be Turkey!’: cathartic resonance between the June 2013 protests in Turkey and Brazil	1
Persistent chemicals, persistent activism: scientific opportunity structures and social movement organizing on contamination by per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances	1
The candlelight protests in South Korea: a dynamics of contention approach	1
Retweet solidarity: transatlantic Twitter connectivity between militant antifascists in the USA and UK	1
Official framing—portraying the implementation of an unpopular policy as responsive governance	1
Data in movement: the social movement society in the age of datafication	1
The political economy of the Spanish Indignados: political opportunities, social conflicts, and democratizing impacts	1
Affective dimensions and the psychosocial work performed by naked body protests	1
The image as a site of transgression: the case of Beirut counter-visuality since October 2019	1
Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women’s Political Writing Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women’s Political Writing , Charisse Burden-Stelly and Jodi Dean (e	1
Contentious Millennials and generational dimensions in contemporary social movements in Greece	1
When activists speak law to powerholders: comparative insights	1
Framing in the Authoritarian Context: Policy Advocacy by Environmental Movement Organisations in China	1
Datafication and implicated networks of demobilization: social movement demobilization in datafied societies	1
PROFILE: Extinction rebellion in the Gambia	1
The mobilising memory of the 15-M movement: recollections and sediments in Spanish protest culture	1
The connective is communal: hybrid activism in online & offline spaces	1