Measuring Social Movement Organization Populations: A Comprehensive Census of U.S. Environmental Movement Organizations

Social movement organizations in the local food movement: linking social capital and movement support

Social movement actors seeking alternatives to the highly industrialized, global food system have been advocating for more sustainable, local food systems. Many of the local food movement strategies and initiatives to counter the conventional practices of the industrial food system have proven successful. Social movement researchers have documented the importance of the roles and services socia...

Feminist Social Movement Organizations: the Construction of an Ideal Type

The Organization of Movement

IN THE PRECEDING PART of this book we considered how the brain constructs internal representations of the world by integrating information from the different sensory systems. These sensory representations are the framework in which the motor systems plan, coordinate, and execute the motor programs responsible for purposeful movement. In this part of the book we shall learn how the motor systems...

Digital Action Repertoires and Transforming a Social Movement Organization

An emerging research agenda focuses on social media’s influence on political activism. Specific attention has recently been paid to digital social movement organizing and action repertoire development. The literature acknowledges the changing face of activism at the movement level, but little is known about the relationship between social movement organizations (SMOs) and digital action reperto...

Using the Web Politically: Social Movement Activists and Organizations Online

This article focuses on the political use of the Internet by the Italian Global Justice Movement (GJM) considering both the organisations and the individuals involved in the movement. First, a definition of the concept ‘political use of the internet’ and its operationalization is provided. Second, light is shed on how the internet is used politically by participants in social movements taking i...