I review the development of the political opportunity or political process perspective, which
has animated a great deal of research on social movements. The essential insight—that the …

This article reviews central problems in political opportunity theory and explores the
implications of adopting certain conceptualizations of political opportunities for explaining …

This article examines ways in which social movements have been impacted and responded
in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Between March and May 2020, lockdown measures put …

Recent years have seen an enormous increase in protests across the world in which citizens
have challenged what they see as a deterioration of democratic institutions and the very …

How is labour changing in the age of computers, the Internet, and" social media" such as
Facebook, Google, YouTube and Twitter? In Digital Labour and Karl Marx, Christian Fuchs …

Social movement studies and studies on civil society and, related to them, studies on
voluntarism and the third sector, are burgeoning fields of knowledge, which have, however …

In Europe, as in the rest of the Western world, scholarly interest in social movements
developed with the wave of protest that, in the late sixties, shook confidence in the 'end of …

Revolutions, social movements, religious and ethnic conflict, nationalism and civil rights, and
transnational movements: these forms of contentious politics combine in Charles Tilly's and …

Shows how social change affects political mobilization indirectly through the restructuring of
existing power relations, comparing the impact of the ecology, gay rights, peace, and …

Contrary to the common view that globalization undermines social agency,'alter-
globalization activists' or have contested globalization in its neo-liberal form and have …