Die Klimakrise stellt eine zunehmende Herausforderung dar, insbesondere für junge Menschen, die sich häufig ohnmächtig gegenüber den Folgen des Klimawandels fühlen. Bildung kann dabei eine zentrale Rolle einnehmen, indem sie Selbstwirksamkeit stärkt und zur aktiven Beteiligung am...

This paper examines how social movements influenced Greece's macroeconomic adjustment during the financial crisis and austerity period (2010-2015). The purpose is to identify the channels through which mobilizations-anti-austerity protests, general strikes, youth actions, and solidarity...

We study whether exposure to social movements campaigning against income and gender income inequality shifts individual beliefs about inequality, reshapes preferences for redistribution, and translates into political participation in the UK. Since the Great Recession of the 2010s, the UK has...

Organizing collective action in the face of climate change is one of the grand challenges of our time. Social movements and their approach to framing climate change are pivotal, as they are tasked with the role of challenging and redirecting dominant beliefs and narratives. Recent research...

Latent feelings of economic vulnerability and social stagnation may have catalyzed the unprecedented uprisings that shook Latin America and other parts of the world in 2018-2019. We document this process in the context of Chile, leveraging survey data on protest participation and its potential...

Die Klimakrise stellt eine zunehmende Herausforderung dar, insbesondere für junge Menschen, die sich häufig ohnmächtig gegenüber den Folgen des Klimawandels fühlen. Bildung kann dabei eine zentrale Rolle einnehmen, indem sie Selbstwirksamkeit stärkt und zur aktiven Beteiligung am...

This paper examines how network ties between local social leaders influenced the diffusion of mass protests in an autocracy. We focus on the Protestant Church and the Peaceful Revolution in East Germany. To quantify the role of leader networks in protest diffusion, we compile biographical...

Food waste is a critical global issue with significant environmental, economic, and social implications. In Indonesia, one of the world's largest food-wasting countries, urban centers such as Bandung City face growing challenges in managing household food waste. The limited capacity of municipal...

Multi-stakeholder cooperatives (MSCs) are a powerful tool for food system transformation. Their key strength lies in their ability to bring together diverse actors, foster a shared vision, and facilitate agreement among groups of stakeholders with varying and sometimes conflicting interests....

New ODI research underscores how women's movements are leading the push for democratic governance and inclusion, particularly in contexts of eroding civic space or where democracies are increasingly authoritarian. Yet, they face growing backlash from a rising tide of politicised religion. Based...

We study whether exposure to social movements campaigning against income and gender income inequality shifts individual beliefs about inequality, reshapes preferences for redistribution, and translates into political participation in the UK. Since the Great Recession of the 2010s, the UK has...

Protest mobilisation and coordination require competences that extend beyond political leadership and communication. Technology, which has become a daily part of humanity, pushes protest leaders to obtain skills in navigating social media to achieve effective communication and leadership. Labour...

While indigenous movements often keep a deliberate distance from their states, political connections can be important to effect policy change. How do indigenous organizations navigate this challenge? This article analyses the electoral strategies of 19 indigenous organizations during elections...

We propose a theory of protest dynamics with heterogeneous protest technology and intensity. The ability to mobilize online reduces the likelihood of coordination failures at both the extensive (engagement) and intensive (violence) margins. Social media can initially help launch massive...

Around the world, social movements are protesting against the corporate food regime (Friedmann & McMichael, 1989), denouncing the injustices associated with its structural dynamics of neoliberal capitalism, patriarchal domination, racism, coloniality, epistemic violence, and anthropocentric...