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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
New kids on the block: taking stock of the recent cycle of climate activism	145
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	38
Mutual Aid in north London during the Covid-19 pandemic	27
Commons: a social outcome of the movement of the squares	27
Brexit as ‘politics of division’: social media campaigning after the referendum	24
Covid19 and protest repertoires in the United States: an initial description of limited change	22
Time for change	20
Opinion leadership in a leaderless movement: discussion of the anti-extradition bill movement in the ‘LIHKG’ web forum	18
Mock meat, masculinity, and redemption narratives: vegan men’s negotiations and performances of gender and eating	17
A “stylistic anti-populism”: an analysis of the Sardine movement’s opposition to Matteo Salvini in Italy	16
Anti-nationalist Europeans and pro-European nativists on the streets: visions of Europe from the left to the far right	14
Instagram and social capital: youth activism in a networked movement	14
Public opinion, media and activism: the differentiating role of media use and perceptions of public opinion on political behaviour	12
The revolution will wear burqas: feminist body politics and online activism in India	11
Making a deal with the devil? Portuguese and Finnish activists’ everyday negotiations on the value of social media	11
Proactive internationalization and diaspora mobilization in a networked movement: the case of Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Bill protests	11
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
Connective action or collective inertia? Emotion, cognition, and the limits of digitally networked resistance	9
Transgressive protest after a democratic transition: The Kamour Campaign in Tunisia	9
Urban movements and municipalist governments in Spain: alliances, tensions, and achievements	9
Professionals in Revolt: Specialized Networks and Sectoral Mobilization in Hong Kong	8
‘We are all refugees’: how migrant grassroots activism disrupts exclusionary legal categories	8

Interpreting Unrest: How Violence changes Public Opinions about Social Movements	8
Modelling the mediating effect of multiple emotions in a cycle of territorial protests	7
Protester-police fraternization in the 2013 Gezi Park uprisings	6
‘Building future politics’: projectivity and prefigurative politics in a Swedish social center	6
The Swarm versus the Grassroots: places and networks of supporters and opponents of Black Lives Matter on Twitter	6
Protesting the police: an analysis of the correlates of support for police reform following the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests	6
Aiming for Achilles’ Heel: A relational explanation of the ascendency of pro-nuclear activism in Taiwan, 2013-2020	6
Bringing the future into the present: the notion of emergency in the youth climate movement	6
Strategizing post-protest activism in abeyance: retaining activist capital under political constraint	5
Labor’s reversal of fortune: contentious politics and executive aggrandizement in Indonesia	5
(Re)mobilizing labour. A lesson from recent labour struggles in Italy	5
Arenas of fragile alliance making. Space and interaction in precarious migrant protest in Berlin and Vienna	5
Imagination, decolonization, and intersectionality: the #RhodesMustFall student occupations in Cape Town, South Africa	5
The politics of alliances. The making and breaking of social movement coalitions. Introduction to the special issue	5
Amplification, evasion, hijacking: algorithms as repertoire for social movements and the struggle for visibility	5
Emotions and climate strike participation among young and old demonstrators	5
Unpacking the ‘anti-diet movement’: domination and strategies of resistance in the broad anti-diet community	5
Politicizing Europe on the far right: Anti-EU mobilization across the party and non-party sector in France	5
‘We hugged each other during the cold nights’: the role of affect in an anti-deportation protest network in Finland	5
Identity as a barrier: claiming universality as a strategy in the Israeli vegan movement	4
Slow justice: a framework for tracing diffusion and legacies of resistance	4
Politics of anticipation: Turkey’s 2017 Constitutional Referendum and the Local ‘No’ Assemblies in Istanbul	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
Prefiguration and the post-representational politics of anti-deportation activism	4
PROFILE: Extinction rebellion: greening vanguardism?	4
From another Europe to beyond Europe? Visions of Europe in movements	4
Framing health and care: legacies and innovation during the pandemic	4
The recovery of protest in Japan: from the ‘ice age’ to the post-2011 movements	4
Learning democracy through activism: the global climate strike movement and Belgian youth’s democratic experience in times of environmental emergency	4
Caring Democracy Now: Neighborhood Support Networks in the Wake of the 15-M	4
Egypt’s 2011 uprising, subaltern cultural politics, and revolutionary weakness	4
Mobilizing precarious workers in Italy: two pathways of collective action intentions	4
Mobilising around Europe: a conceptual framework and introduction to the special section	4
‘Vaccine passports equal Apartheid’: Covid-19 and parliamentary occupation in Aotearoa New Zealand	4
The Copenhagen Experiment: testing the effectiveness of creative vs. conventional forms of activism	4
Institutional actors’ participation in social movement: examining the roles of perceived damage to work reputation, collective efficacy, and communication patterns	4
Transforming urban democracy through social movements: the experience of Ahora Madrid	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