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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
New kids on the block: taking stock of the recent cycle of climate activism	124
Street protests in times of COVID-19: adjusting tactics and marching ‘as usual’	50
Politicisation beyond post-politics: new social activism and the reconfiguration of political discourse	33
Climate change or what? Prognostic framing by Fridays for Future protesters	27
Commons: a social outcome of the movement of the squares	24
Brexit as ‘politics of division’: social media campaigning after the referendum	23
Covid19 and protest repertoires in the United States: an initial description of limited change	21
Mutual Aid in north London during the Covid-19 pandemic	19
Time for change	17
Opinion leadership in a leaderless movement: discussion of the anti-extradition bill movement in the ‘LIHKG’ web forum	16
A “stylistic anti-populism”: an analysis of the Sardine movement’s opposition to Matteo Salvini in Italy	15
Refigurative politics: understanding the volatile participation of critical creatives in community gardens, repair cafés and clothing swaps	15
Anti-corporate activism and market change: the role of contentious valuations	13
Prefiguration, subtraction and emancipation	12
Anti-nationalist Europeans and pro-European nativists on the streets: visions of Europe from the left to the far right	11
‘All I got is stones in my hand’: youth-led stone pelting protests in Indian-administered Kashmir	11
Mock meat, masculinity, and redemption narratives: vegan men’s negotiations and performances of gender and eating	11
Public opinion, media and activism: the differentiating role of media use and perceptions of public opinion on political behaviour	11
Sos Venezuela: an analysis of the anti-Maduro protest movements using Twitter	10
Proactive internationalization and diaspora mobilization in a networked movement: the case of Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Bill protests	9
Linking consensus to action: does frame alignment amongst sympathizers lead to protest participation?	9
Connective action or collective inertia? Emotion, cognition, and the limits of digitally networked resistance	9
Instagram and social capital: youth activism in a networked movement	9
Making a deal with the devil? Portuguese and Finnish activists’ everyday negotiations on the value of social media	9
From social mobilisation to institutional politics: Reflecting on the impact of municipalism in Madrid and Barcelona	9

Interpreting Unrest: How Violence changes Public Opinions about Social Movements	8
Professionals in Revolt: Specialized Networks and Sectoral Mobilization in Hong Kong	8
Bringing grievances back into social movement research: the conceptual and empirical case	8
The revolution will wear burqas: feminist body politics and online activism in India	7
Urban movements and municipalist governments in Spain: alliances, tensions, and achievements	7
‘Everyone was questioning everything’: understanding the derailing impact of undercover policing on the lives of UK environmentalists	7
Protesting the police: an analysis of the correlates of support for police reform following the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests	7
‘We are all refugees’: how migrant grassroots activism disrupts exclusionary legal categories	7
Unionism and feminism: alliance building in the Brazilian Marcha das Margaridas	7
Transgressive protest after a democratic transition: The Kamour Campaign in Tunisia	6
Aiming for Achilles’ Heel: A relational explanation of the ascendency of pro-nuclear activism in Taiwan, 2013-2020	6
Every city needs a Klinika: The struggle for autonomy in the post-political city	6
Modelling the mediating effect of multiple emotions in a cycle of territorial protests	6
Strategizing post-protest activism in abeyance: retaining activist capital under political constraint	5
The politics of alliances. The making and breaking of social movement coalitions. Introduction to the special issue	5
Politicizing Europe on the far right: Anti-EU mobilization across the party and non-party sector in France	5
Reactive, cost-beneficial or undermining legitimacy: how disempowered protestors explain their part in violent clashes with the state	5
Labor’s reversal of fortune: contentious politics and executive aggrandizement in Indonesia	5
‘We hugged each other during the cold nights’: the role of affect in an anti-deportation protest network in Finland	4
Diffusion of intersectionality across contemporary Spanish activism: the case of Las Kellys	4
Mobilizing precarious workers in Italy: two pathways of collective action intentions	4
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
(Re)mobilizing labour. A lesson from recent labour struggles in Italy	4
Emotions and climate strike participation among young and old demonstrators	4
Caring Democracy Now: Neighborhood Support Networks in the Wake of the 15-M	4
Prefiguration and the post-representational politics of anti-deportation activism	4
Unpacking the ‘anti-diet movement’: domination and strategies of resistance in the broad anti-diet community	4
Bringing the future into the present: the notion of emergency in the youth climate movement	4
The recovery of protest in Japan: from the ‘ice age’ to the post-2011 movements	4
Connections result in a general upsurge of protests: egocentric network analysis of social movement organizations after the Fukushima Nuclear Accident	4
Transforming urban democracy through social movements: the experience of Ahora Madrid	4
Protester-police fraternization in the 2013 Gezi Park uprisings	4
From another Europe to beyond Europe? Visions of Europe in movements	4
Mobilising around Europe: a conceptual framework and introduction to the special section	4
The Copenhagen Experiment: testing the effectiveness of creative vs. conventional forms of activism	4
Arenas of fragile alliance making. Space and interaction in precarious migrant protest in Berlin and Vienna	4