OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Fields of contention as a prism: toward a nuanced role of parties and civil society actors in protest interactions	53
PROFILE: #MahsaAmini: Iranian Twitter Activism in Times of Computational Propaganda	32
Transforming urban democracy through social movements: the experience of Ahora Madrid	24
Surplus citizens: struggle and nationalism in the Greek crisis Surplus citizens: struggle and nationalism in the Greek crisis , by Dimitra Kotouza, London, published by	22
Researching the far right-theory, method and practice	21
Institutional actors’ participation in social movement: examining the roles of perceived damage to work reputation, collective efficacy, and communication patterns	18
Caring Democracy Now: Neighborhood Support Networks in the Wake of the 15-M	15
From social mobilisation to institutional politics: Reflecting on the impact of municipalism in Madrid and Barcelona	15
Doubt to be certain: epistemological ambiguity of data in the case of grassroots mapping of traffic accidents in Russia	14
Achieving Organizationality Through Authorship Affordances — A Communicative Episode of Telegram Polling from 2019 Hong Kong	13
Data in movement: the social movement society in the age of datafication	10
Mutual aid and solidarity politics in times of emergency: direct social action and temporality in Italy during the COVID-19 pandemic	10
Negotiating politics on campus: dynamic (de-)politicization among student activists in post-2011 Egypt	10
Sacralising the secular: constructing ‘religion’ in social movement scholarship	10
Beyond straw men: plastic pollution and networked cultures of care	10
15-M Mobilizations and the penalization of counter-hegemonic protest in contemporary Spain	10
Towards effective women’s movements against violence: the role of organizational conditions in promoting leadership capital	10
Debating Anarchism: A History of Action, Ideas, and Movements	10
Attention, shocks, and relevance judgements: the case of white nationalism in the U.S. South, 1980–2008	9
Learning democracy through activism: the global climate strike movement and Belgian youth’s democratic experience in times of environmental emergency	9
Offside politics during the democratic erosion: social movements and May 2023 presidential election cycle in Turkey	8
Social movements and political-emotional communities: an approach from the Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity in Mexico	8
Far-right leadership in comparison: shifts and continuities in German-speaking movements	8
Defending democracy against the ‘Corona dictatorship’? Far-right PEGIDA during the COVID-19 pandemic	8
Networked sustainable lifestyle activism: growth and limits of zero waste movement in urban China	8

Emotions and climate strike participation among young and old demonstrators	7
Protesting the lockdown: geo-indexing a movement publicly opposing Covid-19 policies on Facebook	7
‘A proper environmentalist wouldn’t do that’: discourses of alienation from the environmental periphery	7
‘We hugged each other during the cold nights’: the role of affect in an anti-deportation protest network in Finland	7
The connective is communal: hybrid activism in online & offline spaces	6
Social movement discourse: An introduction	6
Memory and social movements in modern and contemporary history: remembering past struggles and resourcing protest	6
Justifying violent protest: law and morality in democratic states	6
The future is now. An introduction to prefigurative politics	6
The political economy of the Spanish Indignados: political opportunities, social conflicts, and democratizing impacts	6
Intimate Communities of hate: why social media fuels far-right extremism	5
The Copenhagen Experiment: testing the effectiveness of creative vs. conventional forms of activism	5
Targeted appeals: online social movement frame packaging and tactics customized for youth	5
Hybrid protest logics and relational dynamics against institutional decay: networked movements in Asia	5
Protesting the police: an analysis of the correlates of support for police reform following the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests	5
How social movements can save democracy: democratic innovations from below	5
PROFILE: Extinction rebellion in the Gambia	5
The power of slogans: using protest writings in social movement research	5
Instagram and social capital: youth activism in a networked movement	5
Data as narrative: contesting the right to the word	5
What has become of the Indignados? The biographical consequences of participation in the 15M movement in Madrid (2011–19)	5
A dilemma of visibility: discursive opportunities, audiences, and anti-migrant protest strategy	4
Proximity to anti-fracking protests: public attitudes about disruption and hydraulic-fracturing risks	4
Activism and affective labor for digital direct action: the Mexican #MeToo campaign	4
Corporate movements: Silicon Valley businesses create and support apparently independent social movements advocating for deregulation	4
“I’m sick of doing nothing:” how boredom shapes rape crisis center volunteers’ social movement participation	4
Framing health and care: legacies and innovation during the pandemic	4
Social movements and digital activism in Africa	4
The impacts of COVID-19 on youth activisms in Spain (2020–2022)	4
Resisting state-sanctioned precarity: social reproduction and anti-austerity organizing in Berlin	4
Emotional solidarity: social movements’ framing of migration	4
The recovery of protest in Japan: from the ‘ice age’ to the post-2011 movements	4
Retweet solidarity: transatlantic Twitter connectivity between militant antifascists in the USA and UK	4
Politics of anticipation: Turkey’s 2017 Constitutional Referendum and the Local ‘No’ Assemblies in Istanbul	4
Amplification, evasion, hijacking: algorithms as repertoire for social movements and the struggle for visibility	4
Avoiding the hope of avoiding collapse: collapsology and non-hope as an emotional practice of conviction	4
Transgressing taboos: the relational dynamics of claim radicalization in Hong Kong and Thailand	4
Urban movements and climate change: loss, damage and radical adaptation	4
Official framing—portraying the implementation of an unpopular policy as responsive governance	4
Repression and bystander mobilization in Africa	4
‘Vaccine passports equal Apartheid’: Covid-19 and parliamentary occupation in Aotearoa New Zealand	4
‘Courage without the certainty of a happy ending’: the emotion regulation of environmental activists	3
The mobilising memory of the 15-M movement: recollections and sediments in Spanish protest culture	3
Populism in the civil sphere Populism in the civil sphere , edited by Jeffrey C. Alexander, Peter Kivisto, and Giuseppe Sciortino, Cambridge, Polity, 2021, xii + 316 pp.	3
Based on a true story: the use of conversion stories in social movements	3
PROFILE: understanding the 2022-23 Peruvian uprising	3
Profile: Blending old and new repertoires of contention in Myanmar’s anti-coup protests (2021)	3
(Re)mobilizing labour. A lesson from recent labour struggles in Italy	3
Brexit as ‘politics of division’: social media campaigning after the referendum	3
Living against austerity; a feminist investigation of doing activism and being an activist	3

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,	3
Everyday resistance: French activism in the 21^st century	3
Connective action or collective inertia? Emotion, cognition, and the limits of digitally networked resistance	3
Foundations as policy entrepreneurs in the climate movement: the KR Foundation and the movement to ban fossil fuel advertising	3
Challenging Beijing’s mandate of heaven: Taiwan’s sunflower movement and Hong Kong’s umbrella movement	3
Contesting higher education: student movements against neoliberal universities	3
Organizing Occupy Wall Street: This is Just Practice Organizing Occupy Wall Street: This is Just Practice , by Holmes, Marisa2023, Brooklyn, NY, Palgrave Macmillan and S	3
Urban movements and municipalist governments in Spain: alliances, tensions, and achievements	2
‘How many cops to arrest climate chaos?’ Mass policing of protests at COP26	2
Persistent chemicals, persistent activism: scientific opportunity structures and social movement organizing on contamination by per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances	2
Solidarity across borders: transnational implications from the Mahsa Amini movement	2
How to blow up a pipeline	2
Slow justice: a framework for tracing diffusion and legacies of resistance	2
When digital capitalism takes (on) the neighbourhood: data activism meets place-based collective action	2
Recasting solidarity during the COVID-19 pandemic: a case study	2
Introduction: Mobilizing during COVID-19: social movements in times of crisis	2
Student movements as drivers of de-sectarianization in divided societies: the case of Lebanon’s Secular Club	2
Climate change litigation in the news: litigation as public campaigning tool to legitimize climate-related responsibilities and solutions	2
Assessing the effect of activists and their legislative allies in the amendment of bills in Chile	2
The candlelight protests in South Korea: a dynamics of contention approach	2
Doing and undoing gender: women on the frontline of Hong Kong’s anti-extradition bill movement	2
Datafication and implicated networks of demobilization: social movement demobilization in datafied societies	2
The compounded ² nature of the Covid pandemic on survivors of sexual violence	2
Protesting during the covid-19 pandemic in Turkey: when moral indignation and economic grievances outweigh risks of infection and repression	2
Coordinating and doxing data: Hong Kong protesters’ and government supporters’ data strategies in the age of datafication	2
Mobilising around Europe: a conceptual framework and introduction to the special section	2
“I Can be a Voice for People”: meaning making among transgender grassroots organizers in the US Southeast	2
Political party affiliation strength and protest participation propensity: theory and evidence from Africa	2
Youth activism and (de)personalized remix on TikTok	2
‘Don’t just do something, sit there’: contemplative activism and ‘being political’ as prefigurative politics	1
Sustainable community movement organizations. Solidarity economies and rhizomatic practices	1
Stir into flame: charisma in the US draft resistance movement	1
If at first, you don’t succeed: Strategies used by environmental activist volunteer leaders to overcome failure	1
PROFILE: why have social mobilizations for women’s reproductive rights in Poland failed?	1
Protest memories and individual persistence: examining participants’ intention to remember a movement under democratic backsliding	1
Framing in the Authoritarian Context: Policy Advocacy by Environmental Movement Organisations in China	1
Banging on Closed Doors or Beating the Drum? Social Movements’ Interpretations of Opportunities in Legal Appeal Processes	1
From another Europe to beyond Europe? Visions of Europe in movements	1
Queer –activism and intersectionality? A discourse analysis of queer –political subject formations in the problematization of ‘race’	1
Leading with hearts and minds: emotion contagion in China’s online activism	1
‘Love is over, this is going to be Turkey!’: cathartic resonance between the June 2013 protests in Turkey and Brazil	1
Both roads lead to Rome: activist commitment and the identity-structure nexus in CasaPound	1
Professionals in Revolt: Specialized Networks and Sectoral Mobilization in Hong Kong	1
Performing civic spheres: aesthetic-political public appearance in the balfour protest in Israel	1
Repertoires of action and collective memory: the re-emergence of feminist self-managed health centers in Italy	1
Mahad: the making of the first Dalit revolt	1
Ten years after the Gezi Park protests: looking back on their legacy and impact	1
Speak of the devil: how the satanic temple is changing the way we talk about religion Speak of the devil: how the satanic temple is changing the way we talk about religion	1
Civil resistance. What everyone needs to know	1
Social movements’ transformative climate change communication: extinction rebellion’s artivism	1
Action dilemmas in prefigurative politics: making prefiguration feasible in Sweden	1
Reconsidering social movement impact on democracy: the case of Spain’s 15-M movement	1
Review essay: (Left) populism and radical democracy today	1
Imagining sovereign futures: the marriage equality movement in Taiwan	1
New ways of activism: design justice and data feminism	1
Does transnational contention lead to transnational memory? The online visual memory of the February 2003 anti-Iraq War protests	1
Proactive internationalization and diaspora mobilization in a networked movement: the case of Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Bill protests	1
Fearful or fearless? The impact of fear on feminist activism	1
Combining emotions: hope, anger, joy, and love in Israeli peace movements	1
The participatory legacy of mobilization and repression: evidence from a student movement	1
Global activism in food politics: power shift	1
Interpreting Unrest: How Violence changes Public Opinions about Social Movements	1