Social Movement Studies Journal
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Social Movement Studies is the leading international academic journal of social movements. RT ≠ endorsement. We tweet about movements and research on movements. Follow our publications: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/csms20/current
As promised, the new blockbuster double issue in global Labour movements is out now Special issue: New insights into global labour: movement strategy and mobilisation in the context of crisis; Special Issue editors: Elizabeth Humphrys and Katrin Uba www.tandfonline.com/toc/csms20/2...
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As promised, the new blockbuster double issue in global Labour movements is out now Special issue: New insights into global labour: movement strategy and mobilisation in the context of crisis; Special Issue editors: Elizabeth Humphrys and Katrin Uba www.tandfonline.com/toc/csms20/2...
Social Movement Studies
Special issue: New insights into global labour: movement strategy and mobilisation in the context of crisis; Guest editors: Elizabeth Humphrys and Katrin Uba. Volume 25, Issue 4-5 of Social Movement Studies
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@cffominaya.bsky.social Available for library and teaching orders: www.routledge.com/Feminist-and...
Feminist and LGBTQ Mobilizing in Contemporary Social Movements
This book brings together a compelling collection of articles that delve into the multifaceted dimensions of feminist and LGBTQ organizing within contemporary social movements. Through an array of cas...
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"Dictatorship in action." Journalist @davidcayjohnston.bsky.social reacts to the shocking deal Donald Trump's lawyers negotiated with his own administration that establishes a $1.8 billion "slush fund" to reward the president's allies.
Journalist Ed Augustin, reporting from Havana, calls the Trump administration’s strict fuel blockade of Cuba “collective punishment of a population, particularly targeting poor communities, pregnant women, children and the elderly.”
Cubans Starving & Dying Because of Intensified U.S. Blockade: Reporter in Havana
In Havana, we speak to journalist Ed Augustin, who calls the Trump administration's strict fuel blockade of Cuba, in place since the beginning of 2026, “the collective punishment of a population, particularly targeting poor communities, pregnant women, ...
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This graduation season, schools across the U.S. have continued their attempts to silence pro-Palestine speech. Rutgers professor Noura Erakat says repression of Palestine protest only spreads outwards. "We are the Trojan horse to bring in these policies that will affect everyone."
"This will be the third graduation and commencement ceremony in a row where we do not have a student speaker, where we do not have a faculty speaker and we do not have a live-streamed commencement. ... [T]hey took [all] that away specifically because of Palestine repression."
The Trump administration has blocked nearly all refugees from resettling into the United States — except for white South Africans.
“Clear Racism”: Trump Admin Blocks Refugee Resettlement, Except for White South Africans
The Trump administration is advancing plans to resettle an additional 10,000 white South Africans in the United States as refugees. Under President Trump's proposal, which was submitted to Congress on Monday, the U.S. would lift its record-low refugee a...
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"Our students are being told that your families, Palestinian families, are expected to suffer and die, and you should be okay with it."
“They’re Trying to Silence Us”: Students, Faculty on Censoring Pro-Palestine Voices at Graduations
As colleges hold graduation ceremonies across the country, many schools are attempting to silence pro-Palestine speech at the commemorations, including canceling speakers and eliminating live speeches...
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“I could hear screaming the whole time.”
“Designed to Break You”: Gaza Flotilla Activists Faced Violence, Sexual Abuse in Israeli Detention
“I could hear screaming the whole time.” Our guests Alex Colston and Haitham Arafat spent days in Israeli custody after being abducted from a humanitarian mission sailing to Gaza. They share accounts ...
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Brendan Ballou spent two years prosecuting January 6 Capitol rioters. He is now representing two D.C. police officers suing the Trump administration over its new "anti-weaponization" fund that could be used to compensate January 6 insurrectionists who attacked them and their colleagues.
Capitol Police Officers Sue Trump over Slush Fund for Jan. 6 Rioters & Other Allies
Two officers who defended the Capitol on January 6, 2021, have filed a lawsuit in federal court to block the creation of a $1.8 billion so-called anti-weaponization fund. Former Capitol Police officer...
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Protesters Block Newark ICE Detention Facility as Hunger and Work Strike Enters Day 3 www.thecity.nyc/2026/05/25/p...
Protesters Block Newark ICE Detention Facility as Hunger and Work Strike Enters Day 3
Striking Delaney Hall detainees are demanding the immediate release of the young, the elderly and medically vulnerable people.
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"Gabriela Soto says that she started the protest in conjunction with the detainees’ strike so that the media could see how ICE is 'destroying families and separating them.' ... a guard asked her why she was 'spreading lies' and talking to the press."
“They Are Not Alone Inside”: Protests Outside Newark ICE Jail Support Hunger-Striking Detainees
Around 300 immigrants detained at the Delaney Hall ICE jail in Newark, New Jersey, have been on a hunger and work strike since Friday to protest inhumane conditions and due process violations. Delaney...
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✂️ CUT THE TIES ACTION Yesterday, Cut The Ties To Fossil Fuels protesters occupied the headquarters of Federate Hermes, who invest in TotalEnergies, one of the companies behind the East African Crude Oil Pipeline. 🖤 The glorious Oil Slickers supported the action.
A blockbuster double special Issue on GLOBAL LABOR MOVEMENTS will be dropping soon! Edited by Elizabeth Humphrys and Katrin Uba Meanwhile catch our current issue here-full of great articles plus a Mahsa Amini profile piece: www.tandfonline.com/toc/csms20/2...
Social Movement Studies
Volume 25, Issue 3 of Social Movement Studies
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@SocMovStudies · If you will be at the CES conference in Dublin in June check out the Meet the Editors event (check the program for details) Council for European Studies June 17th Dublin-come meet the editors and participate in the Q and A and reception!
Since a new issue is due to drop soon, let's have a more in-depth look at our current issue: Volume 24, Issue 6! 🧵 www.tandfonline.com/toc/csms20/2...
Social Movement Studies
Volume 24, Issue 6 of Social Movement Studies
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Woo! It's been a long wait but my new article is now published in @socmovstudies.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Anti-leftism as an aesthetic in white power punk
White Power music scenes embrace both White Supremacy and the music cultures they situate themselves in. For White Power punk scenes, there is a reliance on the shaping and utilization of punk aest...
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In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
Jonathan M. Katz@katz.theracket.news · 10mo agoNot a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
“Largest single-day protest in American history.” Roughly 2% of the population rose up to demand the restoration of democracy. So powerful. From @gelliottmorris.com open.substack.com/pub/gelliott...
Second "No Kings Day" protests the largest single-day political protest ever*, with 5.2-8.2 million participants
Here are the initial results from our crowdsourced crowd-counting estimates
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Out now @socmovstudies.bsky.social: we introduce the concept of a "protest script" & demonstrate how video-enhanced protest event analysis (vPEA) helps trace a common script of the Italian and German anti-containment protests. doi.org/10.1080/1474...
Understanding protest scripts: the anti-containment protests in Germany and Italy during the COVID-19 pandemic
The pandemic did not bring protest politics to a halt. Instead, it sparked diverse and divergent forms of contention. This study compares the development and characteristics of anti-containment pro...
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Nepal. Wow. Hope we get some interesting submissions on that at some point.
New and final issue of the year coming soon! Chock full of great articles! Climate activism, 15-M, women's movements, housing movements, "preppers" and more! Stay tuned!
“In many ways, it’s bringing the logic of Gaza into the Caribbean, in terms of unaccountability, impunity and an expansive notion of national defense to justify what is, in effect, just extrajudicial killing.”
Deadly U.S. Strike on Venezuelan Boat Raises Fears of Wider War: Greg Grandin
Acclaimed historian Greg Grandin joins Democracy Now! to discuss the Trump administration’s attack on an alleged drug-smuggling boat in international waters, which killed 11 people earlier this week. ...
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“The underlying issue is economic inequality.”
Indonesia Protests: At Least 10 Killed, Thousands Arrested Amid Police Crackdown
Authorities in Indonesia have launched a brutal crackdown on nationwide protests, sparked by outrage over generous housing allowances and other perks for politicians amid a deepening cost-of-living cr...
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Israel bombed the Mushtaha Tower in Gaza City, leveling the 12-story building as part of a larger escalation aimed at depopulating the largest urban center in the Palestinian territory.
