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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 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
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
The digital divide within the women’s movement in Ghana: Implications for voice and inclusion	11
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
Unity through separation: spatial divisions and intra-movement relations in Lebanon’s October Uprising	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
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
Attention, shocks, and relevance judgements: the case of white nationalism in the U.S. South, 1980–2008	6
Social movement discourse: An introduction	6
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
“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
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