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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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Breaking the apps: the making of the first national strike by food platform delivery workers in Brazil	27
Labor’s repertoire of contention in an autocracy: the case of the 2020 labor mobilization in Belarus	25
Data as narrative: contesting the right to the word	24
Reproduction of care in uncaring times: sustaining the collective action of tenants in Sweden	19
Memory and social movements in modern and contemporary history: remembering past struggles and resourcing protest	19
Intimate Communities of hate: why social media fuels far-right extremism	19
Commons theory, anti-capitalist strategies and state power: lessons from the French digital commons movement	19
Urban movements and climate change: loss, damage and radical adaptation	18
Movement prefiguration as vocabulary of motive: enacting neofascist ideals in CasaPound Italia	18
A dilemma of visibility: discursive opportunities, audiences, and anti-migrant protest strategy	18
Amplification, evasion, hijacking: algorithms as repertoire for social movements and the struggle for visibility	17
Retweet solidarity: transatlantic Twitter connectivity between militant antifascists in the USA and UK	15
Book review	14
Exploring social movements: theories, experiences, and trends edited by Biswajit Ghosh and the cultural production of social movements by Robert F. Carley	10
Decompressing to prevent unrest: political participation through citizen-initiated mechanisms of direct democracy	10
Student movements as drivers of de-sectarianization in divided societies: the case of Lebanon’s Secular Club	10
Invisible Revolutionaries: Women’s Participation in Ukraine’s Euromaidan	10
Persistent chemicals, persistent activism: scientific opportunity structures and social movement organizing on contamination by per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances	9
Performing civic spheres: aesthetic-political public appearance in the balfour protest in Israel	9
‘Love is over, this is going to be Turkey!’: cathartic resonance between the June 2013 protests in Turkey and Brazil	9
‘Generating electricity with love’: spontaneity, decentralization, and loose solidarity of queer youth community in contemporary China	9
On tractors and bicycles against water reservoirs: climate change adaptation, agricultural unions, and cross-movement coalitions	9
Politics as public art: the aesthetics of political organizing and social movements (Routledge advances in theatre & performance studies)	9
Feeling the climate crisis can be overwhelming. Emotion management in climate activism	8
Political imaginaries of solidarity: the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) in Toronto	8

Framing the climate emergency: the role of music in Extinction Rebellion	8
Unity through separation: spatial divisions and intra-movement relations in Lebanon’s October Uprising	8
Prepping as implicit activism: risk, danger, and post-capitalist imaginaries in prepper literature	8
Sustaining a social movement through infrastructural followup: activist pedagogies and prefigurative politics in Narmada Bachao Andolan’s schools for life ( jeevanshalas	7
Diffusion of intersectionality across contemporary Spanish activism: the case of Las Kellys	7
Social movements and the left in Portugal and Spain (2008-2015)	7
Protests in the United States on Palestine and Israel, 2023–2024	7
Explaining the impact of citizens’ initiatives on social movements: insights from the Spanish housing movement	7
“Cute saves the world!”: animal Internet Celebrities’ cute activism in the #adoptdon’tshop animal rescue campaign on social media	7
Towards effective women’s movements against violence: the role of organizational conditions in promoting leadership capital	6
Debating Anarchism: A History of Action, Ideas, and Movements	6
Doubt to be certain: epistemological ambiguity of data in the case of grassroots mapping of traffic accidents in Russia	6
Social movement discourse: An introduction	6
PROFILE: Offside politics during the democratic erosion: social movements and May 2023 presidential election cycle in Turkey	5
Networked sustainable lifestyle activism: growth and limits of zero waste movement in urban China	5
Protesting during the covid-19 pandemic in Turkey: when moral indignation and economic grievances outweigh risks of infection and repression	5
“I Can be a Voice for People”: meaning making among transgender grassroots organizers in the US Southeast	5
PROFILE: Extinction rebellion in the Gambia	5
From the margins to the ballot: discrimination, protest, and the revaluation of voting in South Korea	5
Attention, shocks, and relevance judgements: the case of white nationalism in the U.S. South, 1980–2008	5
The power of slogans: using protest writings in social movement research	5
Recasting solidarity during the COVID-19 pandemic: a case study	5
Transgressing taboos: the relational dynamics of claim radicalization in Hong Kong and Thailand	5
Far-right leadership in comparison: shifts and continuities in German-speaking movements	5
Resisting state-sanctioned precarity: social reproduction and anti-austerity organizing in Berlin	5
Mahad: the making of the first Dalit revolt	5
Organizing Occupy Wall Street: This is Just Practice	5
Saving ourselves: from climate shocks to climate action	4
The transformative potential of casework: analyzing the political subjectivation of migrant workers at the Immigrant Workers Center	4
From quota reform to regime collapse: understanding the anti-discrimination movement in Bangladesh	4
Climate change litigation in the news: litigation as public campaigning tool to legitimize climate-related responsibilities and solutions	4
Solidarity across borders: transnational implications from the Mahsa Amini movement	4
Datafication and implicated networks of demobilization: social movement demobilization in datafied societies	4
Youth activism and (de)personalized remix on TikTok	4
Raising two fists: struggles for Black citizenship in multicultural Colombia	3
Reactivating a movement legacy: Taiwan’s political protests from Sunflowers to Bluebirds	3
PROFILE: Extinction rebellion: greening vanguardism?	3
Civil disobedience and the protest paradigm: climate protests and the struggle for legitimacy	3
Political invisibility and mobilization	3
When activists speak law to powerholders: comparative insights	3
15-M movement and feminist economics: an insight into the dialogues between social movements and academia in Spain	3
Correction	3
Roundtable on Kaan Ağartan’s Gezi: the making of a new political community in Turkey	3
Why do students protest markets? A Polanyian interpretation of anti-neoliberal student protests in England and Chile	3
After Occupy: the politics of autonomy in an occupied building	3
People against nuclear energy: anti-nuclear movements in India	3
Revolutionary Life: The Everyday of the Arab Spring	3
Migrant support in Calais: an affective spatial approach to the formation and circulation of ambivalent emotions	3
Environmental inequalities and fragmented class formations: a study of labour-environmental conflicts in Kerala, India	3
Fat activism in Brazil and Spain: body, stigma and rights	2

Justifying violent protest: law and morality in democratic states	2
Social movements and political-emotional communities: an approach from the Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity in Mexico	2
Corporate movements: Silicon Valley businesses create and support apparently independent social movements advocating for deregulation	2
Re-thinking solidarity movements as infrastructure during the COVID-19 pandemic crisis: insights from Athens	2
The future is now. An introduction to prefigurative politics	2
Legal framing and institutional resonance in Chilean water rights	2
Mutual aid and solidarity politics in times of emergency: direct social action and temporality in Italy during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Surplus citizens: struggle and nationalism in the Greek crisis	2
COVID-19 crisis and workers organizing through WhatsApp: a case study of the 2020 ‘teachers can’t breathe’ movement in Zimbabwe	2
The strategic and instrumental use of verbal violence by protesters: political swearing in Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Movement	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
Data in movement: the social movement society in the age of datafication	2
Affective dimensions and the psychosocial work performed by naked body protests	2
Beyond straw men: plastic pollution and networked cultures of care	2
How to blow up a pipeline	1
Hybrid protest logics and relational dynamics against institutional decay: networked movements in Asia	1
‘Vaccine passports equal Apartheid’: Covid-19 and parliamentary occupation in Aotearoa New Zealand	1
Proximity to anti-fracking protests: public attitudes about disruption and hydraulic-fracturing risks	1
Banging on Closed Doors or Beating the Drum? Social Movements’ Interpretations of Opportunities in Legal Appeal Processes	1
PROFILE: why have social mobilizations for women’s reproductive rights in Poland failed?	1
Review essay: (Left) populism and radical democracy today	1
Queer –activism and intersectionality? A discourse analysis of queer –political subject formations in the problematization of ‘race’	1
The case of Bangladesh and Nepal: economic crises and inequality ignite transformative social and political movements	1
Repertoires from ‘above’ and ‘below’ in a market despotic workplace regime: a qualitative case study analysis of protected strikes in South Africa	1
From cradle to grave: long-term influences of campus spatiality on the dynamics of Japan’s Zenkyōtō movement (1968–1969)	1
Fearful or fearless? The impact of fear on feminist activism	1
The struggle for Narmada: an oral history of the Narmada Bachao Andolan, by Adivasi Leaders Keshavbhau and Kevalsingh Vasave	1
Labor protests as political responses	1
Hong Kong’s middle class and the Anti-ELAB movement: generational and identity-based mobilization	1
Foundations as policy entrepreneurs in the climate movement: the KR Foundation and the movement to ban fossil fuel advertising	1
Avoiding the hope of avoiding collapse: collapsology and non-hope as an emotional practice of conviction	1
Social movements and digital activism in Africa	1
Introduction: Mobilizing during COVID-19: social movements in times of crisis	1
Collective memory and amnesia: explaining continuities and discontinuities in the history of the Belgian sans-papiers movement	1
‘Institutions of governance are all corrupted’: anti-political collective identity of anti-lockdown protesters in digital and physical spaces	1
Repertoires of action and collective memory: the re-emergence of feminist self-managed health centers in Italy	1
If at first, you don’t succeed: strategies used by environmental activist volunteer leaders to overcome failure	1