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Protest Event, Political Culture, and Biography: Post-protest Local Activism in Russia
A biographical approach in social science is usually applied to study the life courses of a particular group of people or to explain individual...
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A Comparison of Football Fan Activism in Ukraine and Germany
During the last decade, football fans in Germany and Ukraine have become increasingly active in the struggle for their interests. This article...
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Values, Emotions, and Knowledge in the Motivations Underlying Environmental Activism: The Case of Contested Green Spaces in Brussels
This study explores how citizens develop a sense of commonality by investigating the motivations that underlie their environmental activism. Our...
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Modes of governance and the ethnography of activism at the Mexico-US border
Inspired by political philosophy, critical studies of border regimes often reduce human rights and relief work to some accomplice role in migratory...
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From Criticism to Activism: Sociologists Influenced by the Catholic Worker Movement
This article traces the influence of the Catholic Worker Movement on a small set of sociologists: Paul Hanley Furfey, Gladys Sellew, Mary Elizabeth...
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“Youth speaking truth to power”: intersectional decolonial activism in Namibia
This article portrays a recent movement towards intersectional activism in urban Namibia. Since 2020, young Namibian activists have come together in...
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Emotions, Morality, and Political Participation Behaviors in Online Activism
The chapter analyzes emotional expressions and corresponding moral dimensions in messages posted on the Chinese social media Weibo, and the...
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The Performance and Reception of Race-Based Athletic Activism: Toward a Critical, Dramaturgical Theory of Sport
The emergence of an unprecedented wave of race-based athletic activism in the last decade presents the opportunity to formulate a more critical,...
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Who Says Shut Up and Dribble? Race and the Response to Athletes’ Political Activism
In response to a political comment from NBA superstar LeBron James, a Fox News commentator suggested he “shut up and dribble.” James and many others...
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From The Anfield Wrap to Boss Night and the Paris Protests: Football, Politics, Identity and the Cultural Evolution of Fan Media and Supporter Activism in Liverpool
There have been significant recent developments in media produced by football fans, from social media and online magazines to podcasts, YouTube...
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“13 Goals are Cool, Equal Pay is Cooler!”: Fan Activism and Leisure Identities at the 2019 Women’s World Cup
Despite substantial recent activism on the part of U.S. women footballers and their fans, little scholarly attention has focused on fan activism in...
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What Are We Fighting For? Lay Theories About the Goals and Motivations of Anti-Racism Activism
Social psychology has primarily focused on activism as action toward social change; little is known about how laypeople think about activism. The...
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Redefining Liberian Women’s Political Activism: The Legacy of the Women’s Peacebuilding Movement
During Liberia’s prolonged civil conflict, women from all walks of life joined together to challenge violence and create a social movement that would...
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Atmospheres of Youth Climate Justice Activism: Movements of Affective Political Participation
Recent analyses of young people’s climate justice activism have contributed nuanced understandings of the emotional experiences of young climate...
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A law and politics contextualization of corporate activism in Nigeria’s 2020 anti-police brutality campaign
Corporate activism—the progressive pursuit of social justice causes by corporations—is a growing global phenomenon. There are increasing expectations...
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Quiet advocacy: the stealthy activism of Indian interest groups in the USA
The study highlights that while the government, political parties, and constitutional institutions play a significant role in the political process,...
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A Data-Political Spectacle: How COVID-19 Became A Source of Societal Division in Denmark
The COVID-19 pandemic has been a data-political spectacle. Data are omnipresent in prediction and surveillance, and even in resistance to...
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A Political Psychology Approach to Militancy and Prefigurative Activism The Case of Brazil
This book frames a series of protests occurred in Brazil from 2013 to 2016 as exemplary cases of global trends in contentious politics to analyze the...
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Thinking about Cyborg Activism
One of the qualities of South African cities that surfaced during the Covid-19 pandemic is the inefficient city structure and resultant inequalities...
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Disability Activism and Advocacy: Introduction
The second decade of the twenty-first century has witnessed a multitude of significant changes that have engendered systemic shifts, civic...