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Imperialism and social movement unionism in South African responses to the Just Transition
In November 2021, South Africa signed the first international Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP). This unlocked 8.5 billion USD in donor...
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Sport for Development: A Social Movement Captured by Elites?
Over the last 30 years there has been a growth of actors involved in Sport for Development (SFD). Though some of these actors aligned with prevailing...
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What Happened to the U.S. Labor Movement?
This chapter explores the factors which have contributed to the institutionalization of the U.S. labor movement. These factors include collaboration...
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The Food Sovereignty Movement in Venezuela
Venezuela’s food sovereignty movement was part of a national strategy to transition from a capitalist-based economy to ‘Socialism of the Twenty-First...
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Breaking New Ground: Social Movement Theory and the Cincinnati Union Co-ops
This article provides a case study, based on original author research, about the start of the union co-op movement in Cincinnati a decade ago. The...
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Conceptualizing and investigating post-truth politics: the geographic imagination and knowledge of the Flat Earth Movement
In this article, I argue that post-truth politics is best understood and investigated as a distinct style of epistemological politics which embraces...
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System-Hostile Milieu: Movement-Like Right-Wing Extremism with Destruction Goals
This chapter describes the far-reaching processes of transformation in this milieu. The traditional far-right parties, having lost efficacy, were...
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Decoding Bodo Movement and Peace Accords: Enduring Ethnic Solution Versus Political Expediency
Bodo Movement is often seen as the outgrowth of the pitfalls of ethnic federalism guaranteed by the Indian Constitution and the hegemonic position...
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Citizenship in Movement: First-Generation Immigrants and Their Offspring Mobilizing in Italy
Many associations and movements of migrants and ethnic minorities have sprung up in Europe since the end of the 1980s. They demand access to rights...
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The Right to a Complete Life: Struggles of the Dominican Feminist Movement
In 1932, Dominican feminist leader Abigail Mejía said that all feminists wanted was for women to have the right to live “a complete life”. Against...
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The only living guerrillero in New York: Cuba and the brokerage power of a resilient revisionist state
This article explores how weak countries deflect systemic pressure towards change and even succeed in preserving old institutions to their advantage....
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Patterns of tolerance: how interaction culture and community relations explain political tolerance (and intolerance) in the American libertarian movement
Existing explanations of political intolerance and partisanship highlight how individuals’ ideological commitments and the homogeneity of their...
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The Movimiento 19 de Abril [April 19 Movement] and the Reconstruction of Public Memory Between Narrative and Counter-Narrative
This chapter analyses the case study of M-19 (Movimiento 19 de abril) [April 19 Movement], a Colombian guerrilla organisation active until 1990....
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Selling Beautiful Births: The Use of Evidence by Brazil’s Humanised Birth Movement
Maternal health care continues to be excessively medicalised in many national health systems. Global, national, and local level policy initiatives...
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Manifestations of the Climate Change Counter Movement in the Global South
Far less is known about if and how CCCM opposition manifested in the Global South. This chapter synthesizes evidence from my own archival research...
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The Foundations of the Climate Change Counter Movement: United States of America
In the late 1950s, the fossil fuel industry began its coordinated effort to undermine environmental and later climate-related legislation to protect...
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A Crisis of Masculine Power: The Emergence and Trajectory of the Anti-Gender Movement in Turkey
This chapter explains the emergence and trajectory of anti-gender politics in Turkey leading to the withdrawal from the İstanbul Convention in March...
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The Coordination of Eyebrow Movement and Prosody in Affective Utterances
Human communication also involves non-speech aspects and the link between them and the spoken components is of particular importance in everyday...
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Bahrain’s Uprising: Pro-democracy Protests or Sectarian Movement?
This chapter examined the Al-Jazeera Arabic (AJA) and English (AJE) coverage of Bahrain’s uprising during the Saudi military intervention from March...
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Chile’s Student Movement: Strong, Detached, Influential—And Declining?
Contrary to what is commonly established in the literature, Chile’s student movement became influential once it had detached itself from political...