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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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Intimate Communities of hate: why social media fuels far-right extremism	54
Memory and social movements in modern and contemporary history: remembering past struggles and resourcing protest	32
Urban movements and climate change: loss, damage and radical adaptation	24
Data as narrative: contesting the right to the word	24
A dilemma of visibility: discursive opportunities, audiences, and anti-migrant protest strategy	21
Retweet solidarity: transatlantic Twitter connectivity between militant antifascists in the USA and UK	20
Student movements as drivers of de-sectarianization in divided societies: the case of Lebanon’s Secular Club	16
Amplification, evasion, hijacking: algorithms as repertoire for social movements and the struggle for visibility	16
Political party affiliation strength and protest participation propensity: theory and evidence from Africa	15
Persistent chemicals, persistent activism: scientific opportunity structures and social movement organizing on contamination by per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances	14
Urban movements and municipalist governments in Spain: alliances, tensions, and achievements	14
From another Europe to beyond Europe? Visions of Europe in movements	13
Contentious gender politics in Italy and Croatia: diffusion of transnational anti-gender movements to national contexts	13
Performing civic spheres: aesthetic-political public appearance in the balfour protest in Israel	12
The digital divide within the women’s movement in Ghana: Implications for voice and inclusion	11
Making a deal with the devil? Portuguese and Finnish activists’ everyday negotiations on the value of social media	11
Imagining sovereign futures: the marriage equality movement in Taiwan	11
Unity through separation: spatial divisions and intra-movement relations in Lebanon’s October Uprising	10
Politics as public art: the aesthetics of political organizing and social movements (Routledge advances in theatre & performance studies)	10
Prepping as implicit activism: risk, danger, and post-capitalist imaginaries in prepper literature	10
Framing the climate emergency: the role of music in extinction rebellion	10
‘Love is over, this is going to be Turkey!’: cathartic resonance between the June 2013 protests in Turkey and Brazil	10
Sustaining a social movement through infrastructural followup: activist pedagogies and prefigurative politics in Narmada Bachao Andolan’s schools for life ( jeevanshalas	9
Mock meat, masculinity, and redemption narratives: vegan men’s negotiations and performances of gender and eating	8
“Cute saves the world!”: animal Internet Celebrities’ cute activism in the #adoptdon’tshop animal rescue campaign on social media	8

Close but not too close: opposition network strategy and democratization in Zambia	8
Social movements and the left in Portugal and Spain (2008-2015)	8
Organising outsourced workers in UK’s new trade unionism - emotions, protest, and collective identity	8
Political imaginaries of solidarity: the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) in Toronto	8
Diffusion of intersectionality across contemporary Spanish activism: the case of Las Kellys	7
Anti-nationalist Europeans and pro-European nativists on the streets: visions of Europe from the left to the far right	7
Towards effective women’s movements against violence: the role of organizational conditions in promoting leadership capital	7
Protests in the United States on Palestine and Israel, 2023–2024	7
Doubt to be certain: epistemological ambiguity of data in the case of grassroots mapping of traffic accidents in Russia	7
Climate change or what? Prognostic framing by Fridays for Future protesters	7
Strategizing post-protest activism in abeyance: retaining activist capital under political constraint	7
Explaining the impact of citizens’ initiatives on social movements: insights from the Spanish housing movement	7
Offside politics during the democratic erosion: social movements and May 2023 presidential election cycle in Turkey	7
Attention, shocks, and relevance judgements: the case of white nationalism in the U.S. South, 1980–2008	6
Social movement discourse: An introduction	6
The power of slogans: using protest writings in social movement research	6
The recovery of protest in Japan: from the ‘ice age’ to the post-2011 movements	6
Networked sustainable lifestyle activism: growth and limits of zero waste movement in urban China	6
Debating Anarchism: A History of Action, Ideas, and Movements	6
Official framing—portraying the implementation of an unpopular policy as responsive governance	6
PROFILE: Extinction rebellion in the Gambia	6
Far-right leadership in comparison: shifts and continuities in German-speaking movements	6
The political economy of the Spanish Indignados: political opportunities, social conflicts, and democratizing impacts	6
Transgressing taboos: the relational dynamics of claim radicalization in Hong Kong and Thailand	6
“I’m sick of doing nothing:” how boredom shapes rape crisis center volunteers’ social movement participation	5
Assessing the effect of activists and their legislative allies in the amendment of bills in Chile	5
Activism and affective labor for digital direct action: the Mexican #MeToo campaign	5
Mobilising around Europe: a conceptual framework and introduction to the special section	5
Resisting state-sanctioned precarity: social reproduction and anti-austerity organizing in Berlin	5
The Copenhagen Experiment: testing the effectiveness of creative vs. conventional forms of activism	5
Saving ourselves: from climate shocks to climate action Saving ourselves: from climate shocks to climate action , by Dana R. Fisher, New York, Columbia University Press,	4
Mahad: the making of the first Dalit revolt	4
Datafication and implicated networks of demobilization: social movement demobilization in datafied societies	4
Proactive internationalization and diaspora mobilization in a networked movement: the case of Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Bill protests	4
When activists speak law to powerholders: comparative insights	4
Professionals in Revolt: Specialized Networks and Sectoral Mobilization in Hong Kong	4
Solidarity across borders: transnational implications from the Mahsa Amini movement	4
Protesting during the covid-19 pandemic in Turkey: when moral indignation and economic grievances outweigh risks of infection and repression	4
“I Can be a Voice for People”: meaning making among transgender grassroots organizers in the US Southeast	4
Climate change litigation in the news: litigation as public campaigning tool to legitimize climate-related responsibilities and solutions	4
Does transnational contention lead to transnational memory? The online visual memory of the February 2003 anti-Iraq War protests	4
Organizing Occupy Wall Street: This is Just Practice	4
Slow justice: a framework for tracing diffusion and legacies of resistance	4
Challenging Beijing’s mandate of heaven: Taiwan’s sunflower movement and Hong Kong’s umbrella movement	4
Recasting solidarity during the COVID-19 pandemic: a case study	4
Youth activism and (de)personalized remix on TikTok	4
After Occupy: the politics of autonomy in an occupied building	4
The Swarm versus the Grassroots: places and networks of supporters and opponents of Black Lives Matter on Twitter	4
Gendered mobilizations and intersectional challenges: contemporary social movements in Europe and North America	3
Science by the people: participation, power, and the politics of environmental knowledge (nature, society, and culture series) Science by the people: participation, power, and the polit	3

Correction	3
Reactivating a movement legacy: Taiwan’s political protests from Sunflowers to Bluebirds	3
Social movements, cultural memory and digital media. Mobilising mediated remembrance	3
The battle for the mountain of the Kurds: self-determination and ethnic cleansing in the Afrin Region of Rojava The battle for the mountain of the Kurds: self-determination and ethnic c	3
People against nuclear energy: anti-nuclear movements in India People against nuclear energy: anti-nuclear movements in India . Ajmal Khan (editor), New Delhi, Sage &	3
Maintaining nonviolent selfdiscipline in hostile protest environments: evidence from the 2019 Baghdad protests	3
15-M movement and feminist economics: an insight into the dialogues between social movements and academia in Spain	3
Transitional justice for whom? Contention over human rights and justice in Tunisia	3
Raising two fists: struggles for Black citizenship in multicultural Colombia	3
Revolutionary Life: The Everyday of the Arab Spring *Revolutionary Life: The Everyday of the Arab Spring* , by Asef Bayat, Cambridge, Ma	3
PROFILE: Extinction rebellion: greening vanguardism?	3
LGBTQ activism in repressive contexts: the struggle for (in)visibility in Egypt, Tunisia and Turkey	3
The future is now. An introduction to prefigurative politics	2
Affective dimensions and the psychosocial work performed by naked body protests	2
Aiming for Achilles’ Heel: A relational explanation of the ascendency of pro-nuclear activism in Taiwan, 2013-2020	2
Institutional actors’ participation in social movement: examining the roles of perceived damage to work reputation, collective efficacy, and communication patterns	2
Hybrid protest logics and relational dynamics against institutional decay: networked movements in Asia	2
Social movements and digital activism in Africa	2
How social movements can save democracy: democratic innovations from below	2
Mutual aid and solidarity politics in times of emergency: direct social action and temporality in Italy during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Beyond straw men: plastic pollution and networked cultures of care	2
The strategic and instrumental use of verbal violence by protesters: political swearing in Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Movement	2
Surplus citizens: struggle and nationalism in the Greek crisis Surplus citizens: struggle and nationalism in the Greek crisis , by Dimitra Kotouza, London, published by	2
Justifying violent protest: law and morality in democratic states	2
Avoiding the hope of avoiding collapse: collapsology and non-hope as an emotional practice of conviction	2
‘Vaccine passports equal Apartheid’: Covid-19 and parliamentary occupation in Aotearoa New Zealand	2
What has become of the Indignados? The biographical consequences of participation in the 15M movement in Madrid (2011–19)	2
Proximity to anti-fracking protests: public attitudes about disruption and hydraulic-fracturing risks	2
Social movements and political-emotional communities: an approach from the Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity in Mexico	2
Researching the far right-theory, method and practice	2
Re-thinking solidarity movements as infrastructure during the COVID-19 pandemic crisis: insights from Athens	2
Sacralising the secular: constructing ‘religion’ in social movement scholarship	2
Achieving Organizationality Through Authorship Affordances — A Communicative Episode of Telegram Polling from 2019 Hong Kong	2
Transforming urban democracy through social movements: the experience of Ahora Madrid	2
Corporate movements: Silicon Valley businesses create and support apparently independent social movements advocating for deregulation	2
Data in movement: the social movement society in the age of datafication	2
The struggle for Narmada: an oral history of the Narmada Bachao Andolan, by Adivasi Leaders Keshavbhau and Kevalsingh Vasave The struggle for Narmada: an oral history of the Narmada Bac	1
Banging on Closed Doors or Beating the Drum? Social Movements’ Interpretations of Opportunities in Legal Appeal Processes	1
Fearful or fearless? The impact of fear on feminist activism	1
How to blow up a pipeline	1
Review essay: (Left) populism and radical democracy today	1
Grassroots environmentalism Grassroots environmentalism , by Suzanne Staggenborg, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2020, xix +244 pp., £75 (hardback), ISBN 9781108	1
Navigating push factors for emigration in turbulent water: the protestors of the Rif Hirak	1
Handbook of civil society and social movements in small states Handbook of civil society and social movements in small states , Edited by Lino Briguglio, Michael Brigugl	1
PROFILE: why have social mobilizations for women’s reproductive rights in Poland failed?	1
Civil resistance. What everyone needs to know	1
Queer –activism and intersectionality? A discourse analysis of queer –political subject formations in the problematization of ‘race’	1
‘Institutions of governance are all corrupted’: anti-political collective identity of anti-lockdown protesters in digital and physical spaces	1
If at first, you don’t succeed: Strategies used by environmental activist volunteer leaders to overcome failure	1
Based on a true story: the use of conversion stories in social movements	1
‘Don’t just do something, sit there’: contemplative activism and ‘being political’ as prefigurative politics	1
Utopia, future imaginations and prefigurative politics in the indigenous women’s movement in Argentina	1
Entangled social movements: extractivism and water justice in El Salvador	1
A tale of two campaigns: understanding the role of short-term political context in Czech and Slovak counter/mobilizing on migration	1
Reconsidering social movement impact on democracy: the case of Spain’s 15-M movement	1
Protesters on trial: examining factors influencing district court decisions in social protest litigation in Taiwan	1
Repertoires of action and collective memory: the re-emergence of feminist self-managed health centers in Italy	1
Introduction: Mobilizing during COVID-19: social movements in times of crisis	1
Foundations as policy entrepreneurs in the climate movement: the KR Foundation and the movement to ban fossil fuel advertising	1
Bringing the future into the present: the notion of emergency in the youth climate movement	1
Ambivalent effects of anger in Chinese feminists’ refusal to patriarchal marriage and family	1
The revolution will wear burqas: feminist body politics and online activism in India	1
Embodied, embedded or both? Investigating experts and expertise in two Greater Boston social movements	1
New ways of activism: design justice and data feminism	1
The socializing nature of protest events. Consequences of the 15-M protests on participants’ political engagement over time	1