Dr. Benjamin Abrams
@bdmabrams.bsky.social
Deputy Chair @UCLSociology.bsky.social Chief Ed. Contention (https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/contention/contention-overview.xml)
A NEW Open Access issue of Contention: The Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Protest is now live! View the TOC and more here: bit.ly/49f3Nmv The 2026 volume of Contention is Open Access as part of the Berghahn Open Society program: bit.ly/44H6aw0 @bdmabrams.bsky.social
Looking forward to the publication of a new book co-authored by @bdmabrams.bsky.social on understanding democracy drawing on five sources of knowledge. uclpress.co.uk/book/the-sci...
The Sciences of the Democracies
The field of democracy studies is more constricted than it needs to be, as researchers, for all their insights, continue to study only fragments of democracy in isolation from each other. Seeking chan...
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"Amid harsher sanctions on disruptive protest, activism is now fighting to save itself, in a last-ditch effort to unknot the noose of state power before it tightens around their necks." So what’s next for protest? @bdmabrams.bsky.social writes in the Big Issue www.bigissue.com/opinion/acti...
The way we protest is changing. So how did we get here?
The right to protest is under threat, so people are finding different ways to make their voices heard. This is the changing face of activism.
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The latest issue of Contention: The Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Protest is out now! View the TOC for this special issue on "Transformative Events In Contentious Politics" here: bit.ly/4oUZeDc @bdmabrams.bsky.social @myriahmed.bsky.social @danaelkurd.bsky.social @smokegatherer.bsky.social
Are we entering a new age of revolutionary theory? In his review article, Abrams tells the story of revolutionary theory from Karl Marx's death to the present and evaluates where current scholarship is heading.
New Review Article on Fast Track by Benjamin Abrams, “A Revolution in Revolutionary Theory?” www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cuny...
A Revolution in Revolutionary Theory?: Ingenta Connect Fast Track Article
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UCL sociologists: launch your book with the UCL Sociology Network. Our call for book launches to take place in 2025-26 is now open. Closing date: 11am, 24 July 2025 tinyurl.com/y9db4x7z
It was such a pleasure to speak about this on Monday. Thank you @sociologyoxford.bsky.social for such a fantastic audience and stimulating engagement with my work!
Sociology at Oxford@sociologyoxford.bsky.social · last yr.🌟 Join us on Monday for a seminar by Dr Benjamin Abrams! His work explores a new theoretical model of resistance movements as a distinctive object of social scientific study. 📍 Online & in person
Habe mit großen Genuss das Buch von Benjamin Abrams gelesen. Hier meine review: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Abrams, Benjamin. 2023. The Rise of the Masses: Spontaneous Mobilization and Contentious Politics - Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft
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Im neuen Heft des Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen bespreche ich das Buch "The Rise of the Masses" von @bdmabrams.bsky.social. Es trägt dazu bei, spontane Massenmobilisierung zu verstehen und ist eine wichtige Ergänzung zu Organisationsperspektiven auf Protest. www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
Wie Massen mobilisiert werden
Article Wie Massen mobilisiert werden was published on March 31, 2025 in the journal Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen (volume 38, issue 1).
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We are here! Great to start the end of the year with a new beginning... Hoping we can connect with as many old friends and colleagues here as we used to on twitter/X.
Okay, so I guess we're doing this! Can anyone shoot me some good guides for migrating over from Twitter, duplicating content, and ideally bringing ones' followers with them?