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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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Breaking the apps: the making of the first national strike by food platform delivery workers in Brazil	64
Labor’s repertoire of contention in an autocracy: the case of the 2020 labor mobilization in Belarus	29
Intimate Communities of hate: why social media fuels far-right extremism	22
Memory and social movements in modern and contemporary history: remembering past struggles and resourcing protest	20
Data as narrative: contesting the right to the word	19
Urban movements and climate change: loss, damage and radical adaptation	18
Movement prefiguration as vocabulary of motive: enacting neofascist ideals in CasaPound Italia	17
A dilemma of visibility: discursive opportunities, audiences, and anti-migrant protest strategy	16
Retweet solidarity: transatlantic Twitter connectivity between militant antifascists in the USA and UK	15
Amplification, evasion, hijacking: algorithms as repertoire for social movements and the struggle for visibility	15
Decompressing to prevent unrest: political participation through citizen-initiated mechanisms of direct democracy	14
Student movements as drivers of de-sectarianization in divided societies: the case of Lebanon’s Secular Club	14
Political party affiliation strength and protest participation propensity: theory and evidence from Africa	14
Exploring social movements: theories, experiences, and trends edited by Biswajit Ghosh and the cultural production of social movements by Robert F. Carley	13
Persistent chemicals, persistent activism: scientific opportunity structures and social movement organizing on contamination by per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances	12
‘Love is over, this is going to be Turkey!’: cathartic resonance between the June 2013 protests in Turkey and Brazil	12
Performing civic spheres: aesthetic-political public appearance in the balfour protest in Israel	11
Politics as public art: the aesthetics of political organizing and social movements (Routledge advances in theatre & performance studies)	11
Contentious gender politics in Italy and Croatia: diffusion of transnational anti-gender movements to national contexts	11
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
Framing the climate emergency: the role of music in Extinction Rebellion	9
Unity through separation: spatial divisions and intra-movement relations in Lebanon’s October Uprising	9
Close but not too close: opposition network strategy and democratization in Zambia	9
Political imaginaries of solidarity: the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) in Toronto	9

Sustaining a social movement through infrastructural followup: activist pedagogies and prefigurative politics in Narmada Bachao Andolan’s schools for life ( jeevanshalas	9
Prepping as implicit activism: risk, danger, and post-capitalist imaginaries in prepper literature	9
Organising outsourced workers in UK’s new trade unionism - emotions, protest, and collective identity	9
Social movements and the left in Portugal and Spain (2008-2015)	9
“Cute saves the world!”: animal Internet Celebrities’ cute activism in the #adoptdon’tshop animal rescue campaign on social media	8
Diffusion of intersectionality across contemporary Spanish activism: the case of Las Kellys	8
Explaining the impact of citizens’ initiatives on social movements: insights from the Spanish housing movement	8
Anti-nationalist Europeans and pro-European nativists on the streets: visions of Europe from the left to the far right	8
Strategizing post-protest activism in abeyance: retaining activist capital under political constraint	7
Social movement discourse: An introduction	7
Offside politics during the democratic erosion: social movements and May 2023 presidential election cycle in Turkey	7
Debating Anarchism: A History of Action, Ideas, and Movements	7
Protests in the United States on Palestine and Israel, 2023–2024	7
Climate change or what? Prognostic framing by Fridays for Future protesters	7
Far-right leadership in comparison: shifts and continuities in German-speaking movements	7
The political economy of the Spanish Indignados: political opportunities, social conflicts, and democratizing impacts	6
Attention, shocks, and relevance judgements: the case of white nationalism in the U.S. South, 1980–2008	6
Activism and affective labor for digital direct action: the Mexican #MeToo campaign	6
Transgressing taboos: the relational dynamics of claim radicalization in Hong Kong and Thailand	6
Doubt to be certain: epistemological ambiguity of data in the case of grassroots mapping of traffic accidents in Russia	6
Towards effective women’s movements against violence: the role of organizational conditions in promoting leadership capital	6
The power of slogans: using protest writings in social movement research	6
Networked sustainable lifestyle activism: growth and limits of zero waste movement in urban China	6
The recovery of protest in Japan: from the ‘ice age’ to the post-2011 movements	6
Resisting state-sanctioned precarity: social reproduction and anti-austerity organizing in Berlin	6
PROFILE: Extinction rebellion in the Gambia	5
“I Can be a Voice for People”: meaning making among transgender grassroots organizers in the US Southeast	5
Mahad: the making of the first Dalit revolt	5
Climate change litigation in the news: litigation as public campaigning tool to legitimize climate-related responsibilities and solutions	5
Assessing the effect of activists and their legislative allies in the amendment of bills in Chile	5
Recasting solidarity during the COVID-19 pandemic: a case study	5
Solidarity across borders: transnational implications from the Mahsa Amini movement	5
Protesting during the covid-19 pandemic in Turkey: when moral indignation and economic grievances outweigh risks of infection and repression	5
From quota reform to regime collapse: understanding the anti-discrimination movement in Bangladesh	5
Slow justice: a framework for tracing diffusion and legacies of resistance	5
Saving ourselves: from climate shocks to climate action	5
Datafication and implicated networks of demobilization: social movement demobilization in datafied societies	5
After Occupy: the politics of autonomy in an occupied building	4
The battle for the mountain of the Kurds: self-determination and ethnic cleansing in the Afrin Region of Rojava The battle for the mountain of the Kurds: self-determination and ethnic c	4
Maintaining nonviolent selfdiscipline in hostile protest environments: evidence from the 2019 Baghdad protests	4
The transformative potential of casework: analyzing the political subjectivation of migrant workers at the Immigrant Workers Center	4
Mobilising around Europe: a conceptual framework and introduction to the special section	4
The Swarm versus the Grassroots: places and networks of supporters and opponents of Black Lives Matter on Twitter	4
15-M movement and feminist economics: an insight into the dialogues between social movements and academia in Spain	4
Reactivating a movement legacy: Taiwan’s political protests from Sunflowers to Bluebirds	4
Organizing Occupy Wall Street: This is Just Practice	4
When activists speak law to powerholders: comparative insights	4
Youth activism and (de)personalized remix on TikTok	4
Science by the people: participation, power, and the politics of environmental knowledge (nature, society, and culture series) Science by the people: participation, power, and the polit	4
Raising two fists: struggles for Black citizenship in multicultural Colombia	4

Proactive internationalization and diaspora mobilization in a networked movement: the case of Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Bill protests	4
PROFILE: Extinction rebellion: greening vanguardism?	3
The strategic and instrumental use of verbal violence by protesters: political swearing in Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Movement	3
Re-thinking solidarity movements as infrastructure during the COVID-19 pandemic crisis: insights from Athens	3
Correction	3
Surplus citizens: struggle and nationalism in the Greek crisis	3
Justifying violent protest: law and morality in democratic states	3
Political invisibility and mobilization	3
LGBTQ activism in repressive contexts: the struggle for (in)visibility in Egypt, Tunisia and Turkey	3
Social movements and political-emotional communities: an approach from the Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity in Mexico	3
Mutual aid and solidarity politics in times of emergency: direct social action and temporality in Italy during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Achieving Organizationality Through Authorship Affordances — A Communicative Episode of Telegram Polling from 2019 Hong Kong	3
Affective dimensions and the psychosocial work performed by naked body protests	3
People against nuclear energy: anti-nuclear movements in India	3
Revolutionary Life: The Everyday of the Arab Spring	3
Sacralising the secular: constructing ‘religion’ in social movement scholarship	3
Beyond straw men: plastic pollution and networked cultures of care	3
The future is now. An introduction to prefigurative politics	3
Proximity to anti-fracking protests: public attitudes about disruption and hydraulic-fracturing risks	2
Hybrid protest logics and relational dynamics against institutional decay: networked movements in Asia	2
Foundations as policy entrepreneurs in the climate movement: the KR Foundation and the movement to ban fossil fuel advertising	2
Banging on Closed Doors or Beating the Drum? Social Movements’ Interpretations of Opportunities in Legal Appeal Processes	2
Civil resistance. What everyone needs to know	2
Data in movement: the social movement society in the age of datafication	2
Repertoires from ‘above’ and ‘below’ in a market despotic workplace regime: a qualitative case study analysis of protected strikes in South Africa	2
‘Vaccine passports equal Apartheid’: Covid-19 and parliamentary occupation in Aotearoa New Zealand	2
Introduction: Mobilizing during COVID-19: social movements in times of crisis	2
Fearful or fearless? The impact of fear on feminist activism	2
How to blow up a pipeline	2
Avoiding the hope of avoiding collapse: collapsology and non-hope as an emotional practice of conviction	2
Corporate movements: Silicon Valley businesses create and support apparently independent social movements advocating for deregulation	2
Social movements and digital activism in Africa	2
COVID-19 crisis and workers organizing through WhatsApp: a case study of the 2020 ‘teachers can’t breathe’ movement in Zimbabwe	2
If at first, you don’t succeed: strategies used by environmental activist volunteer leaders to overcome failure	2
Labor protests as political responses	2
Transforming urban democracy through social movements: the experience of Ahora Madrid	2
Diffusion as a colonizing process and the challenges of decolonizing Extinction Rebellion Aotearoa New Zealand	1
Reconsidering social movement impact on democracy: the case of Spain’s 15-M movement	1
The struggle for Narmada: an oral history of the Narmada Bachao Andolan, by Adivasi Leaders Keshavbhau and Kevalsingh Vasave The struggle for Narmada: an oral history of the Narmada Bac	1
Handbook of civil society and social movements in small states	1
Queer –activism and intersectionality? A discourse analysis of queer –political subject formations in the problematization of ‘race’	1
The participatory legacy of mobilization and repression: evidence from a student movement	1
Politics of anticipation: Turkey’s 2017 Constitutional Referendum and the Local ‘No’ Assemblies in Istanbul	1
Ambivalent effects of anger in Chinese feminists’ refusal to patriarchal marriage and family	1
Epistemic historising and the pillars of independent living	1
Emotions and climate strike participation among young and old demonstrators	1
Navigating push factors for emigration in turbulent water: the protestors of the Rif Hirak	1
Entangled social movements: extractivism and water justice in El Salvador	1
‘Institutions of governance are all corrupted’: anti-political collective identity of anti-lockdown protesters in digital and physical spaces	1
Review essay: (Left) populism and radical democracy today	1
‘Don’t just do something, sit there’: contemplative activism and ‘being political’ as prefigurative politics	1
Embodied, embedded or both? Investigating experts and expertise in two Greater Boston social movements	1
Framing in the Authoritarian Context: Policy Advocacy by Environmental Movement Organisations in China	1
Framing health and care: legacies and innovation during the pandemic	1
Defending democracy against the ‘Corona dictatorship’? Far-right PEGIDA during the COVID-19 pandemic	1
Imagination, decolonization, and intersectionality: the #RhodesMustFall student occupations in Cape Town, South Africa	1
The socializing nature of protest events. Consequences of the 15-M protests on participants’ political engagement over time	1
Remaining in or leaving climate activism – insights from current and former activists on sustained engagement	1
Bringing the future into the present: the notion of emergency in the youth climate movement	1
PROFILE: why have social mobilizations for women’s reproductive rights in Poland failed?	1
Repertoires of action and collective memory: the re-emergence of feminist self-managed health centers in Italy	1
A tale of two campaigns: understanding the role of short-term political context in Czech and Slovak counter/mobilizing on migration	1
Power resources, territory and labour conflicts in the logistic sector: a relational perspective on the Mondo Convenienza struggle	1
Coordinating and doxing data: Hong Kong protesters’ and government supporters’ data strategies in the age of datafication	1
Negotiating politics on campus: dynamic (de-)politicization among student activists in post-2011 Egypt	1
Learning democracy through activism: the global climate strike movement and Belgian youth’s democratic experience in times of environmental emergency	1
Prefiguration and the post-representational politics of anti-deportation activism	1
Utopia, future imaginations and prefigurative politics in the indigenous women’s movement in Argentina	1