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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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Fields of contention as a prism: toward a nuanced role of parties and civil society actors in protest interactions	47
Transforming urban democracy through social movements: the experience of Ahora Madrid	29
Surplus citizens: struggle and nationalism in the Greek crisis Surplus citizens: struggle and nationalism in the Greek crisis , by Dimitra Kotouza, London, published by	26
Researching the far right-theory, method and practice	20
Institutional actors’ participation in social movement: examining the roles of perceived damage to work reputation, collective efficacy, and communication patterns	19
From social mobilisation to institutional politics: Reflecting on the impact of municipalism in Madrid and Barcelona	18
Caring Democracy Now: Neighborhood Support Networks in the Wake of the 15-M	16
Doubt to be certain: epistemological ambiguity of data in the case of grassroots mapping of traffic accidents in Russia	15
Debating Anarchism: A History of Action, Ideas, and Movements Debating Anarchism: A History of Action, Ideas, and Movements , by Mike Finn, London, Bloomsbury, 2021, x+2	14
Emotions and climate strike participation among young and old demonstrators	11
Achieving Organizationality Through Authorship Affordances — A Communicative Episode of Telegram Polling from 2019 Hong Kong	11
Data in movement: the social movement society in the age of datafication	10
The future is now. An introduction to prefigurative politics The future is now. An introduction to prefigurative politics , edited by Lara Monticelli and published by Br	10
Data as narrative: contesting the right to the word	10
Towards effective women’s movements against violence: the role of organizational conditions in promoting leadership capital	9
The connective is communal: hybrid activism in online & offline spaces	9
15-M Mobilizations and the penalization of counter-hegemonic protest in contemporary Spain	9
Defending democracy against the ‘Corona dictatorship’? Far-right PEGIDA during the COVID-19 pandemic	8
Mutual aid and solidarity politics in times of emergency: direct social action and temporality in Italy during the COVID-19 pandemic	8
Beyond straw men: plastic pollution and networked cultures of care	8
Sacralising the secular: constructing ‘religion’ in social movement scholarship	7
Attention, shocks, and relevance judgements: the case of white nationalism in the U.S. South, 1980–2008	6
Offside politics during the democratic erosion: social movements and May 2023 presidential election cycle in Turkey	6
‘A proper environmentalist wouldn’t do that’: discourses of alienation from the environmental periphery	6
Negotiating politics on campus: dynamic (de-)politicization among student activists in post-2011 Egypt	6

Networked sustainable lifestyle activism: growth and limits of zero waste movement in urban China	6
#MahsaAmini: Iranian Twitter Activism in Times of Computational Propaganda	6
Learning democracy through activism: the global climate strike movement and Belgian youth’s democratic experience in times of environmental emergency	6
Far-right leadership in comparison: shifts and continuities in German-speaking movements	6
Justifying violent protest: law and morality in democratic states	6
Social movements and political-emotional communities: an approach from the Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity in Mexico	5
Protesting the lockdown: geo-indexing a movement publicly opposing Covid-19 policies on Facebook	5
Memory and social movements in modern and contemporary history: remembering past struggles and resourcing protest	5
Social movement discourse: An introduction	5
‘We hugged each other during the cold nights’: the role of affect in an anti-deportation protest network in Finland	5
Protesting the police: an analysis of the correlates of support for police reform following the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests	5
The political economy of the Spanish Indignados: political opportunities, social conflicts, and democratizing impacts	5
Instagram and social capital: youth activism in a networked movement	5
Intimate Communities of hate: why social media fuels far-right extremism	5
The Copenhagen Experiment: testing the effectiveness of creative vs. conventional forms of activism	4
Politics of anticipation: Turkey’s 2017 Constitutional Referendum and the Local ‘No’ Assemblies in Istanbul	4
Social movements and digital activism in Africa	4
How social movements can save democracy: democratic innovations from below	4
Resisting state-sanctioned precarity: social reproduction and anti-austerity organizing in Berlin	4
Profile: Blending old and new repertoires of contention in Myanmar’s anti-coup protests (2021)	4
The mobilising memory of the 15-M movement: recollections and sediments in Spanish protest culture	4
Framing health and care: legacies and innovation during the pandemic	4
Repression and bystander mobilization in Africa	4
Official framing—portraying the implementation of an unpopular policy as responsive governance	4
Transgressing taboos: the relational dynamics of claim radicalization in Hong Kong and Thailand	4
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.	4
“I’m sick of doing nothing:” how boredom shapes rape crisis center volunteers’ social movement participation	4
Targeted appeals: online social movement frame packaging and tactics customized for youth	4
PROFILE: Extinction rebellion in the Gambia	4
Hybrid protest logics and relational dynamics against institutional decay: networked movements in Asia	4
The power of slogans: using protest writings in social movement research	4
‘Courage without the certainty of a happy ending’: the emotion regulation of environmental activists	4
What has become of the Indignados? The biographical consequences of participation in the 15M movement in Madrid (2011–19)	4
(Re)mobilizing labour. A lesson from recent labour struggles in Italy	4
Avoiding the hope of avoiding collapse: collapsology and non-hope as an emotional practice of conviction	4
Retweet solidarity: transatlantic Twitter connectivity between militant antifascists in the USA and UK	4
‘Vaccine passports equal Apartheid’: Covid-19 and parliamentary occupation in Aotearoa New Zealand	4
Proximity to anti-fracking protests: public attitudes about disruption and hydraulic-fracturing risks	4
The impacts of COVID-19 on youth activisms in Spain (2020–2022)	4
The recovery of protest in Japan: from the ‘ice age’ to the post-2011 movements	4
Amplification, evasion, hijacking: algorithms as repertoire for social movements and the struggle for visibility	4
Mobilising around Europe: a conceptual framework and introduction to the special section	3
The candlelight protests in South Korea: a dynamics of contention approach	3
Corporate movements: Silicon Valley businesses create and support apparently independent social movements advocating for deregulation	3
Religion and progressive activism: new stories about faith and politics	3
Challenging Beijing’s mandate of heaven: Taiwan’s sunflower movement and Hong Kong’s umbrella movement	3
Living against austerity; a feminist investigation of doing activism and being an activist	3
Slow justice: a framework for tracing diffusion and legacies of resistance	3
A dilemma of visibility: discursive opportunities, audiences, and anti-migrant protest strategy	3
Activism and affective labor for digital direct action: the Mexican #MeToo campaign	3

Datafication and implicated networks of demobilization: social movement demobilization in datafied societies	3
Proactive internationalization and diaspora mobilization in a networked movement: the case of Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Bill protests	3
Organizing Occupy Wall Street: This is Just Practice Organizing Occupy Wall Street: This is Just Practice , by Holmes, Marisa2023, Brooklyn, NY, Palgrave Macmillan and S	3
Contesting higher education: student movements against neoliberal universities	3
Connective action or collective inertia? Emotion, cognition, and the limits of digitally networked resistance	3
When digital capitalism takes (on) the neighbourhood: data activism meets place-based collective action	3
Everyday resistance: French activism in the 21^st century	3
Based on a true story: the use of conversion stories in social movements	3
Conceptualizing the context of collective action: an introduction	2
Urban movements and municipalist governments in Spain: alliances, tensions, and achievements	2
Persistent chemicals, persistent activism: scientific opportunity structures and social movement organizing on contamination by per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances	2
‘How many cops to arrest climate chaos?’ Mass policing of protests at COP26	2
Protesting during the covid-19 pandemic in Turkey: when moral indignation and economic grievances outweigh risks of infection and repression	2
PROFILE: understanding the 2022-23 Peruvian uprising	2
Ten years after the Gezi Park protests: looking back on their legacy and impact	2
Brexit as ‘politics of division’: social media campaigning after the referendum	2
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,	2
Youth activism and (de)personalized remix on TikTok	2
Doing and undoing gender: women on the frontline of Hong Kong’s anti-extradition bill movement	2
Political party affiliation strength and protest participation propensity: theory and evidence from Africa	2
If at first, you don’t succeed: Strategies used by environmental activist volunteer leaders to overcome failure	2
Introduction: Mobilizing during COVID-19: social movements in times of crisis	2
“I Can be a Voice for People”: meaning making among transgender grassroots organizers in the US Southeast	2
Banging on Closed Doors or Beating the Drum? Social Movements’ Interpretations of Opportunities in Legal Appeal Processes	2
Climate change litigation in the news: litigation as public campaigning tool to legitimize climate-related responsibilities and solutions	2
Solidarity across borders: transnational implications from the Mahsa Amini movement	2
Assessing the effect of activists and their legislative allies in the amendment of bills in Chile	2
Coordinating and doxing data: Hong Kong protesters’ and government supporters’ data strategies in the age of datafication	2
How to blow up a pipeline How to blow up a pipeline by Andreas Malm, London, Verso, 2021, vi + 201pp., £10.99 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-83976-025-9, £10.99 (e-book), ISBN	2
Combining emotions: hope, anger, joy, and love in Israeli peace movements	2
The compounded ² nature of the Covid pandemic on survivors of sexual violence	2
Recasting solidarity during the COVID-19 pandemic: a case study	2
Imagining sovereign futures: the marriage equality movement in Taiwan	1
Sustainable community movement organizations. Solidarity economies and rhizomatic practices	1
Does transnational contention lead to transnational memory? The online visual memory of the February 2003 anti-Iraq War protests	1
Interpreting Unrest: How Violence changes Public Opinions about Social Movements	1
Making a deal with the devil? Portuguese and Finnish activists’ everyday negotiations on the value of social media	1
Leading with hearts and minds: emotion contagion in China’s online activism	1
Diffusion dynamics and digital movement: The emergence and proliferation of the German-speaking #FridaysForFuture network on Twitter	1
Stir into flame: charisma in the US draft resistance movement	1
Repertoires of action and collective memory: the re-emergence of feminist self-managed health centers in Italy	1
Framing in the Authoritarian Context: Policy Advocacy by Environmental Movement Organisations in China	1
Both roads lead to Rome: activist commitment and the identity-structure nexus in CasaPound	1
Queer –activism and intersectionality? A discourse analysis of queer –political subject formations in the problematization of ‘race’	1
Workforces and local communities against corporate restructuring: a comparative case study of resistance to plant closures in Northern Spain	1
Social movements’ transformative climate change communication: extinction rebellion’s artivism	1
‘Don’t just do something, sit there’: contemplative activism and ‘being political’ as prefigurative politics	1
Speak of the devil: how the satanic temple is changing the way we talk about religion Speak of the devil: how the satanic temple is changing the way we talk about religion	1
Civil resistance. What everyone needs to know	1
Bringing the future into the present: the notion of emergency in the youth climate movement	1
The participatory legacy of mobilization and repression: evidence from a student movement	1
Decentralized hate: sustained connective action in online far-right community	1
New ways of activism: design justice and data feminism	1
From another Europe to beyond Europe? Visions of Europe in movements	1
Reconsidering social movement impact on democracy: the case of Spain’s 15-M movement	1
Action dilemmas in prefigurative politics: making prefiguration feasible in Sweden	1
‘Love is over, this is going to be Turkey!’: cathartic resonance between the June 2013 protests in Turkey and Brazil	1
Protesters on trial: examining factors influencing district court decisions in social protest litigation in Taiwan	1
Global activism in food politics: power shift	1
Fearful or fearless? The impact of fear on feminist activism	1
Mahad: the making of the first Dalit revolt	1