OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Social Movement Studies is 5. 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
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
“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
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
Strategizing post-protest activism in abeyance: retaining activist capital under political constraint	7
Social movement discourse: An introduction	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
“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
PROFILE: Extinction rebellion in the Gambia	5