OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Social Movement Studies is 4. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

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	21
Intimate Communities of hate: why social media fuels far-right extremism	21
Commons theory, anti-capitalist strategies and state power: lessons from the French digital commons movement	19
Reproduction of care in uncaring times: sustaining the collective action of tenants in Sweden	19
Movement prefiguration as vocabulary of motive: enacting neofascist ideals in CasaPound Italia	18
Urban movements and climate change: loss, damage and radical adaptation	18
Memory and social movements in modern and contemporary history: remembering past struggles and resourcing protest	18
A dilemma of visibility: discursive opportunities, audiences, and anti-migrant protest strategy	17
Book review	17
Retweet solidarity: transatlantic Twitter connectivity between militant antifascists in the USA and UK	16
Amplification, evasion, hijacking: algorithms as repertoire for social movements and the struggle for visibility	16
Decompressing to prevent unrest: political participation through citizen-initiated mechanisms of direct democracy	15
Exploring social movements: theories, experiences, and trends edited by Biswajit Ghosh and the cultural production of social movements by Robert F. Carley	14
Persistent chemicals, persistent activism: scientific opportunity structures and social movement organizing on contamination by per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances	10
Student movements as drivers of de-sectarianization in divided societies: the case of Lebanon’s Secular Club	10
‘Generating electricity with love’: spontaneity, decentralization, and loose solidarity of queer youth community in contemporary China	9
Making a deal with the devil? Portuguese and Finnish activists’ everyday negotiations on the value of social media	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
‘Love is over, this is going to be Turkey!’: cathartic resonance between the June 2013 protests in Turkey and Brazil	9
Performing civic spheres: aesthetic-political public appearance in the balfour protest in Israel	9
Social movements and the left in Portugal and Spain (2008-2015)	8
Unity through separation: spatial divisions and intra-movement relations in Lebanon’s October Uprising	8

Political imaginaries of solidarity: the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) in Toronto	8
Sustaining a social movement through infrastructural followup: activist pedagogies and prefigurative politics in Narmada Bachao Andolan’s schools for life ( jeevanshalas	8
Framing the climate emergency: the role of music in Extinction Rebellion	8
Feeling the climate crisis can be overwhelming. Emotion management in climate activism	8
Prepping as implicit activism: risk, danger, and post-capitalist imaginaries in prepper literature	8
“Cute saves the world!”: animal Internet Celebrities’ cute activism in the #adoptdon’tshop animal rescue campaign on social media	7
Explaining the impact of citizens’ initiatives on social movements: insights from the Spanish housing movement	7
Diffusion of intersectionality across contemporary Spanish activism: the case of Las Kellys	7
Protests in the United States on Palestine and Israel, 2023–2024	7
Social movement discourse: An introduction	7
Towards effective women’s movements against violence: the role of organizational conditions in promoting leadership capital	6
Doubt to be certain: epistemological ambiguity of data in the case of grassroots mapping of traffic accidents in Russia	6
Attention, shocks, and relevance judgements: the case of white nationalism in the U.S. South, 1980–2008	6
Debating Anarchism: A History of Action, Ideas, and Movements	6
PROFILE: Offside politics during the democratic erosion: social movements and May 2023 presidential election cycle in Turkey	5
Far-right leadership in comparison: shifts and continuities in German-speaking movements	5
PROFILE: Extinction rebellion in the Gambia	5
Recasting solidarity during the COVID-19 pandemic: a case study	5
Youth activism and (de)personalized remix on TikTok	5
From the margins to the ballot: discrimination, protest, and the revaluation of voting in South Korea	5
The power of slogans: using protest writings in social movement research	5
From quota reform to regime collapse: understanding the anti-discrimination movement in Bangladesh	5
Protesting during the covid-19 pandemic in Turkey: when moral indignation and economic grievances outweigh risks of infection and repression	5
Mahad: the making of the first Dalit revolt	5
Resisting state-sanctioned precarity: social reproduction and anti-austerity organizing in Berlin	5
Networked sustainable lifestyle activism: growth and limits of zero waste movement in urban China	5
Transgressing taboos: the relational dynamics of claim radicalization in Hong Kong and Thailand	5
“I Can be a Voice for People”: meaning making among transgender grassroots organizers in the US Southeast	5
Organizing Occupy Wall Street: This is Just Practice	5
Datafication and implicated networks of demobilization: social movement demobilization in datafied societies	4
The transformative potential of casework: analyzing the political subjectivation of migrant workers at the Immigrant Workers Center	4
When activists speak law to powerholders: comparative insights	4
Saving ourselves: from climate shocks to climate action	4
Solidarity across borders: transnational implications from the Mahsa Amini movement	4
Why do students protest markets? A Polanyian interpretation of anti-neoliberal student protests in England and Chile	4
Climate change litigation in the news: litigation as public campaigning tool to legitimize climate-related responsibilities and solutions	4
Environmental inequalities and fragmented class formations: a study of labour-environmental conflicts in Kerala, India	4