This paper’s focus is what we call ‘autonomous geographies’ – spaces where there is a desire to constitute non-capitalist, collective forms of politics, identity and citizenship. These are created through a combination of resistance and creation, and a questioning and challenging of dominant laws and social norms. The concept of autonomy permits a better understanding of activists’ aims, practi...

ANNALS, AAPSS, 644, November 2012 This article proposes a framework for understanding large-scale individualized collective action that is often coordinated through digital media technologies. Social fragmentation and the decline of group loyalties have given rise to an era of personalized politics in which individually expressive personal action frames displace collective action frames in many...

Abstract Collective identity is a key catalyst of protest mobilization. How does collective come into existence among strangers with diverse backgrounds, especially in movements without centralized leadership? Although often seen as something constructed by movement organizations or out established networks, we describe more bottom-up and decentralized process which created through the horizont...

Social movement studies have addressed the issue of nostalgia within two perspectives, focusing, respectively, on emotions and memory. Our contribution looks at in social movements by building upon combination these streams studies. Going beyond a stereotypical vision reactionary as backward looking progressive ones forward looking, we will suggest that while both types look some aspects past w...

The EU last month announced its allowable quotas for various species within its waters for this coming year that fishermen will be able to land and sell. The aim behind the quotas is to limit fishing in an effort to preserve stocks at sustainable levels, but the policy is being shown increasingly to be damaging many stocks, caught by fishermen pursuing one species but catching others, which oft...

In The Practice of Everyday Life, de Certeau likens himself to a Solar Eye reading the city spread out like a text below. He compares this all-seeing position to the enmeshed position of those whose intermingled footsteps pass through the city streets, writing stories that deliberately elude legibility. These two ways of experiencing the city offer a theoretical frame through which I will explo...

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Recent narratives of the civil rights movement document black veterans’ contributions to the movement’s success, often attributing their efforts to their military experience. While this attribution makes sense intuitively, alternative explanations for black veterans’ mobilization are not fully explored in existing work. For instance, black veterans were often among the most active members in ma...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the role connective action characterised by interconnection and personal communication on social media (SM) for participating in collective physical world movements. Design/methodology/approach A research model developed integrating different modes into identity (SIMCA) pathways offline (CA) from an individual perspective. Following a survey d...