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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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
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	39
Mutual Aid in north London during the Covid-19 pandemic	29
Brexit as ‘politics of division’: social media campaigning after the referendum	26
Covid19 and protest repertoires in the United States: an initial description of limited change	21
A “stylistic anti-populism”: an analysis of the Sardine movement’s opposition to Matteo Salvini in Italy	20
Opinion leadership in a leaderless movement: discussion of the anti-extradition bill movement in the ‘LIHKG’ web forum	19
Mock meat, masculinity, and redemption narratives: vegan men’s negotiations and performances of gender and eating	18
Instagram and social capital: youth activism in a networked movement	16
Anti-nationalist Europeans and pro-European nativists on the streets: visions of Europe from the left to the far right	15
The revolution will wear burqas: feminist body politics and online activism in India	12
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
Making a deal with the devil? Portuguese and Finnish activists’ everyday negotiations on the value of social media	11
Connective action or collective inertia? Emotion, cognition, and the limits of digitally networked resistance	10
Bringing grievances back into social movement research: the conceptual and empirical case	10
From social mobilisation to institutional politics: Reflecting on the impact of municipalism in Madrid and Barcelona	10
Urban movements and municipalist governments in Spain: alliances, tensions, and achievements	10
Interpreting Unrest: How Violence changes Public Opinions about Social Movements	9
Transgressive protest after a democratic transition: The Kamour Campaign in Tunisia	9
Professionals in Revolt: Specialized Networks and Sectoral Mobilization in Hong Kong	9
Bringing the future into the present: the notion of emergency in the youth climate movement	8
‘We are all refugees’: how migrant grassroots activism disrupts exclusionary legal categories	8
Protesting the police: an analysis of the correlates of support for police reform following the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests	7

Modelling the mediating effect of multiple emotions in a cycle of territorial protests	7
Imagining sovereign futures: the marriage equality movement in Taiwan	7
The politics of alliances. The making and breaking of social movement coalitions. Introduction to the special issue	6
The Copenhagen Experiment: testing the effectiveness of creative vs. conventional forms of activism	6
‘We hugged each other during the cold nights’: the role of affect in an anti-deportation protest network in Finland	6
Aiming for Achilles’ Heel: A relational explanation of the ascendency of pro-nuclear activism in Taiwan, 2013-2020	6
Unpacking the ‘anti-diet movement’: domination and strategies of resistance in the broad anti-diet community	6
Amplification, evasion, hijacking: algorithms as repertoire for social movements and the struggle for visibility	6
Protester-police fraternization in the 2013 Gezi Park uprisings	6
The Swarm versus the Grassroots: places and networks of supporters and opponents of Black Lives Matter on Twitter	6
#MahsaAmini: Iranian Twitter Activism in Times of Computational Propaganda	6
Imagination, decolonization, and intersectionality: the #RhodesMustFall student occupations in Cape Town, South Africa	5
PROFILE: Extinction rebellion: greening vanguardism?	5
Emotions and climate strike participation among young and old demonstrators	5
Labor’s reversal of fortune: contentious politics and executive aggrandizement in Indonesia	5
The recovery of protest in Japan: from the ‘ice age’ to the post-2011 movements	5
Strategizing post-protest activism in abeyance: retaining activist capital under political constraint	5
Politicizing Europe on the far right: Anti-EU mobilization across the party and non-party sector in France	5
(Re)mobilizing labour. A lesson from recent labour struggles in Italy	5
Framing health and care: legacies and innovation during the pandemic	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
Learning democracy through activism: the global climate strike movement and Belgian youth’s democratic experience in times of environmental emergency	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
Organising outsourced workers in UK’s new trade unionism - emotions, protest, and collective identity	4
From another Europe to beyond Europe? Visions of Europe in movements	4
Doing and undoing gender: women on the frontline of Hong Kong’s anti-extradition bill movement	4
‘Vaccine passports equal Apartheid’: Covid-19 and parliamentary occupation in Aotearoa New Zealand	4
Profile: Blending old and new repertoires of contention in Myanmar’s anti-coup protests (2021)	4
Transforming urban democracy through social movements: the experience of Ahora Madrid	4
Caring Democracy Now: Neighborhood Support Networks in the Wake of the 15-M	4
Prefiguration and the post-representational politics of anti-deportation activism	4
Utopia, future imaginations and prefigurative politics in the indigenous women’s movement in Argentina	4
Contentious gender politics in Italy and Croatia: diffusion of transnational anti-gender movements to national contexts	4
Coordinating and doxing data: Hong Kong protesters’ and government supporters’ data strategies in the age of datafication	4
Mobilising around Europe: a conceptual framework and introduction to the special section	4
Politics of anticipation: Turkey’s 2017 Constitutional Referendum and the Local ‘No’ Assemblies in Istanbul	4
Defending democracy against the ‘Corona dictatorship’? Far-right PEGIDA during the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Institutional actors’ participation in social movement: examining the roles of perceived damage to work reputation, collective efficacy, and communication patterns	4
Transitional justice for whom? Contention over human rights and justice in Tunisia	4
Mobilizing precarious workers in Italy: two pathways of collective action intentions	4
Social movements’ transformative climate change communication: extinction rebellion’s artivism	4
Slow justice: a framework for tracing diffusion and legacies of resistance	4
The temporal nexus of collective memory mediation: print and digital media in Brazil’s Landless Movement 1984-2019	3
A tale of two campaigns: understanding the role of short-term political context in Czech and Slovak counter/mobilizing on migration	3
The digital divide within the women’s movement in Ghana: Implications for voice and inclusion	3
Political party affiliation strength and protest participation propensity: theory and evidence from Africa	3
Combining emotions: hope, anger, joy, and love in Israeli peace movements	3
Repression and bystander mobilization in Africa	3

The influence of social movements on policy change: delayed success in banning dog slaughter in Germany	3
Demobilising far-right demonstration campaigns: Coercive counter-mobilisation, state social control, and the demobilisation of the Hess Gedenkmarsch campaign	3
Leading with hearts and minds: emotion contagion in China’s online activism	3
Fearful or fearless? The impact of fear on feminist activism	3
The mobilising memory of the 15-M movement: recollections and sediments in Spanish protest culture	3
The power of slogans: using protest writings in social movement research	3
Did the pandemic spread populism? comparative study on the transformations of citizen movements in Chile and Hong Kong	3
Climate crisis, neoliberal environmentalism and the self: the case of ‘inner transition’	3
Amplifying dignity in the neoliberal city: the Pobladores movement in Chile	3
Conceptualizing the context of collective action: an introduction	3
When digital capitalism takes (on) the neighbourhood: data activism meets place-based collective action	3
Transgressing taboos: the relational dynamics of claim radicalization in Hong Kong and Thailand	3
Our good is the public good – reframing the communication of professional groups. Anatomy of the resident doctors’ protests in Poland	3
Invoking intersectionality: discursive mobilisations in feminism of the radical left	2
Workforces and local communities against corporate restructuring: a comparative case study of resistance to plant closures in Northern Spain	2
Datafication and implicated networks of demobilization: social movement demobilization in datafied societies	2
Activism and affective labor for digital direct action: the Mexican #MeToo campaign	2
Data in movement: the social movement society in the age of datafication	2
Fields of contention as a prism: toward a nuanced role of parties and civil society actors in protest interactions	2
Re-thinking solidarity movements as infrastructure during the COVID-19 pandemic crisis: insights from Athens	2
The causes, content and consequences of repression: A framework for analyzing protest control in the counter-extremism era	2
Populism in abeyance: the survival of populist repertoires of contention in North Italy	2
‘Institutions of governance are all corrupted’: anti-political collective identity of anti-lockdown protesters in digital and physical spaces	2
Decentralized hate: sustained connective action in online far-right community	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
Achieving Organizationality Through Authorship Affordances — A Communicative Episode of Telegram Polling from 2019 Hong Kong	2
The political economy of the Spanish Indignados: political opportunities, social conflicts, and democratizing impacts	2
“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
Anti-fracking campaigns in the United Kingdom: the influence of local opportunity structures on protest	2
The rise of a new media ecosystem: exploring 15M’s educommunicative legacy for radical democracy	2
Volunteer and staff participants in social movements: a comparison of two local coalitions	2
Recasting solidarity during the COVID-19 pandemic: a case study	2
A dilemma of visibility: discursive opportunities, audiences, and anti-migrant protest strategy	2
Mutual aid and solidarity politics in times of emergency: direct social action and temporality in Italy during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
‘A proper environmentalist wouldn’t do that’: discourses of alienation from the environmental periphery	2
Close but not too close: opposition network strategy and democratization in Zambia	2
After the Protest: Istanbul Park Forums and People’s Engagement in Political Action	2
Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women’s Political Writing	1
Organizing under pressure: authoritarianism, respectability politics, and lgbt advocacy in Rwanda	1
‘Love is over, this is going to be Turkey!’: cathartic resonance between the June 2013 protests in Turkey and Brazil	1
Banging on Closed Doors or Beating the Drum? Social Movements’ Interpretations of Opportunities in Legal Appeal Processes	1
Assessing the effect of activists and their legislative allies in the amendment of bills in Chile	1
Framing in the Authoritarian Context: Policy Advocacy by Environmental Movement Organisations in China	1
Retweet solidarity: transatlantic Twitter connectivity between militant antifascists in the USA and UK	1
PROFILE: Extinction rebellion in the Gambia	1
Black lives matter protests and the 2020 Presidential election	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
Maintaining nonviolent selfdiscipline in hostile protest environments: evidence from the 2019 Baghdad protests	1
When activists speak law to powerholders: comparative insights	1
Stir into flame: charisma in the US draft resistance movement	1
Ten years after the Gezi Park protests: looking back on their legacy and impact	1
The candlelight protests in South Korea: a dynamics of contention approach	1
Hybrid protest logics and relational dynamics against institutional decay: networked movements in Asia	1
Official framing—portraying the implementation of an unpopular policy as responsive governance	1
Between community and sectarianism: calling out and negotiated discipline in prefigurative politics	1
Black lives matter and imagined futures of racial dynamics in the US	1
Intersectionality and social movements: a comparison of environmentalist and disability rights movements	1
Contentious Millennials and generational dimensions in contemporary social movements in Greece	1
15-M movement and feminist economics: an insight into the dialogues between social movements and academia in Spain	1
Reconsidering social movement impact on democracy: the case of Spain’s 15-M movement	1
Climate change litigation in the news: litigation as public campaigning tool to legitimize climate-related responsibilities and solutions	1
Persistent chemicals, persistent activism: scientific opportunity structures and social movement organizing on contamination by per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances	1
Based on a true story: the use of conversion stories in social movements	1
“I’m sick of doing nothing:” how boredom shapes rape crisis center volunteers’ social movement participation	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
The connective is communal: hybrid activism in online & offline spaces	1
Embodied, embedded or both? Investigating experts and expertise in two Greater Boston social movements	1
Reactionary democracy: how racism and the populist far right became mainstream	1