Social Movement Studies Journal
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Social Movement Studies is the leading international academic journal of social movements. RT ≠ endorsement. We tweet about movements and research on movements.
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November 30, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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[Profile] "Woman, life, freedom movement: dynamics of a movement in progress", by Simin Fadaee:
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Woman, life, freedom movement: dynamics of a movement in progress
Mahsa (Zhina) Amini, a young Kurdish woman who had travelled to Tehran to visit her family, died in the custody of the morality police on 16 September 2022 for allegedly not wearing her hijab prope...
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November 30, 2025 at 8:41 AM
[Profile] "Woman, life, freedom movement: dynamics of a movement in progress", by Simin Fadaee:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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"Attention, shocks, and relevance judgements: the case of white nationalism in the U.S. South, 1980–2008", by Marshall A. Taylor:
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Attention, shocks, and relevance judgements: the case of white nationalism in the U.S. South, 1980–2008
Why do white nationalist organizations (WNOs) focus attention on the issues they do? I draw from social movement studies, organizational studies, and social psychology to explain why WNOs shift att...
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November 30, 2025 at 8:41 AM
"Attention, shocks, and relevance judgements: the case of white nationalism in the U.S. South, 1980–2008", by Marshall A. Taylor:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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"Negotiating politics on campus: dynamic (de-)politicization among student activists in post-2011 Egypt", by Farah Ramzy:
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Negotiating politics on campus: dynamic (de-)politicization among student activists in post-2011 Egypt
This article examines processes of (de-) politicization among Egyptian student activists in the post-2011 context. Based on ethnographic observation, interviews and focus groups, I argue that the r...
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November 30, 2025 at 8:41 AM
"Negotiating politics on campus: dynamic (de-)politicization among student activists in post-2011 Egypt", by Farah Ramzy:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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"Explaining the impact of citizens’ initiatives on social movements: insights from the Spanish housing movement", by Montserrat Emperador Badimon:
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Explaining the impact of citizens’ initiatives on social movements: insights from the Spanish housing movement
How do instruments of direct democracy affect the social movement organisations that sponsor them? Drawing on social movement studies and direct democracy research, we argue that direct democracy h...
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November 30, 2025 at 8:41 AM
"Explaining the impact of citizens’ initiatives on social movements: insights from the Spanish housing movement", by Montserrat Emperador Badimon:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
"The socializing nature of protest events. Consequences of the 15-M protests on participants’ political engagement over time", by Carol Galais, Araceli Mateos & Eva Anduiza:
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The socializing nature of protest events. Consequences of the 15-M protests on participants’ political engagement over time
In spite of the widespread belief that firsthand experience with protest is able to change participants’ hearts and minds, the empirical evidence tracking actual changes after participation in prot...
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November 30, 2025 at 8:41 AM
"The socializing nature of protest events. Consequences of the 15-M protests on participants’ political engagement over time", by Carol Galais, Araceli Mateos & Eva Anduiza:
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[Open access] "The participatory legacy of mobilization and repression: evidence from a student movement", by Scott W. Desposato, Cal Zurich & Jason Y. Wu:
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The participatory legacy of mobilization and repression: evidence from a student movement
Studies of the participatory legacies of social movements in democratic settings often find that the individuals who take part in these movements remain more likely to engage in politics, decades l...
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November 30, 2025 at 8:41 AM
[Open access] "The participatory legacy of mobilization and repression: evidence from a student movement", by Scott W. Desposato, Cal Zurich & Jason Y. Wu:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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"Towards effective women’s movements against violence: the role of organizational conditions in promoting leadership capital", by Laura Gutiérrez Zárate:
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Towards effective women’s movements against violence: the role of organizational conditions in promoting leadership capital
Over recent years, increasing violence in Latin American countries has led women’s movements against violence to face challenging circumstances while advancing their goals. Attention has recently t...
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November 30, 2025 at 8:41 AM
"Towards effective women’s movements against violence: the role of organizational conditions in promoting leadership capital", by Laura Gutiérrez Zárate:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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[Open access] "‘How many cops to arrest climate chaos?’ Mass policing of protests at COP26", by Hugo Gorringe, Michael Rosie, Stephen Reicher, Jennie Portice, Selin Tekin & Michael Hamilton:
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‘How many cops to arrest climate chaos?’ Mass policing of protests at COP26
In advance of the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) summit in Glasgow in 2021, Police Scotland insisted that human rights and facilitation would be central to their operation. When the event p...
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November 30, 2025 at 8:41 AM
[Open access] "‘How many cops to arrest climate chaos?’ Mass policing of protests at COP26", by Hugo Gorringe, Michael Rosie, Stephen Reicher, Jennie Portice, Selin Tekin & Michael Hamilton:
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Starting off with an open access article: "Prepping as implicit activism: risk, danger, and post-capitalist imaginaries in prepper literature", by Erik Mygind du Plessis & Emil Husted:
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Prepping as implicit activism: risk, danger, and post-capitalist imaginaries in prepper literature
This paper explores the increasingly widespread practice of prepping, and examines how it differs from conventional forms of activism, which generally involve explicit and purposeful efforts to ins...
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November 30, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Starting off with an open access article: "Prepping as implicit activism: risk, danger, and post-capitalist imaginaries in prepper literature", by Erik Mygind du Plessis & Emil Husted:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....