International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy: Volume 36 Issue 11/12

Guest editorial

Richard J. White, Patricia Burke Wood

Organisation and formal activism: insights from the anarchist tradition

Federico Ferretti

The purpose of this paper is to contribute for the special number Protest and Activism With(out) Organisation.

Consensus and activism through collective exchanges: a focus on El Cambalache, Mexico

Erin Araujo

The purpose of this paper is to explore how consensus decision making serves as a foundation for organizing an alternative economy while the agency of the economic project itself…

(Extra)ordinary activism: veganism and the shaping of hemeratopias

Véron Ophélie

Literature on social movements increasingly identifies everyday life as significant to understand political practices and activism. However, scholars have retained a major bias…

Czech civil sector face-to-face with freelance activism

Pavol Frič, Martin Vávra

The purpose of this paper is to answer following question: what is the relationship between member activism performed through civil society organizations (CSOs) and individualized…

Finding the movement: the geographies of social movement scenes

Kimberly Creasap

A social movement scene is “a network of people who share a set of subcultural or countercultural beliefs, values, norms, and convictions as well as a network of physical spaces…

Start your own revolution: agency and action of the Riot Grrrl network

Caroline K. Kaltefleiter

The purpose of this paper is to examine the Riot Grrrl activist network in the USA and highlight historical anarchist actions of the Washington, DC chapter by examining the nexus…

Student activists’ affective strategies during the 2010-2011 siege of the University of Puerto Rico

Alessandra Rosa

On December 14, 2010, University of Puerto Rico (UPR) student activists initiated the second wave of their strike at a disadvantage. The presence of the police force inside the…

Convergence as organization: Blockupy against the ECB

Yannick Nehemiah Antonio Harrison, Bjarke Skærlund Risager

On 18 March 2015, the transnational anti-austerity Blockupy coalition protested the inauguration of the new European Central Bank premises in Frankfurt. The purpose of this paper…