International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy: Volume 36 Issue 9/10

Guest editorial

Richard J. White, Patricia Burke Wood

Action with(out) activism: understanding digital climate change action

Jessica Emma McLean, Sara Fuller

A recent mainstream intervention in Australia involved the creation of a climate change communication institution, the Climate Council, from crowdfunding and support in social…

Articulations in Berlin’s independent art scene: on new collective actors in the art field

Friederike Landau

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the formation of two artist-led collective actors, Koalition der Freien Szene (KFS) and Haben and Brauchen (H&B), and their differing…

Mobilising and organising in precarious times: Analysing contemporary collective action in South Africa

Carin Runciman

The paper argues that the field of social movement studies has been dominated by a movement organisation-centric approach. This organisational bias has constrained the analysis of…

Hybrid activist collectives: reframing mothers’ environmental and caring labour

Kelly Dombroski

The purpose of this paper is to use a case study of an online parenting forum to theorise how mothers’ everyday environmental and caring labour is a form of environmental and…

Environmental self-organized activism: emotion, organization and collective identity in Mexico

Tommaso Gravante, Alice Poma

The purpose of this paper is to offer an analysis of Mexican self-organized grassroots environmental groups’ activism.

Organizing without organizations: on informal social activism in Poland

Dominika Vergara Polanska, Galia Chimiak

The purpose of this paper is to examine motivations of social activists in informal initiatives and to understand why they opt for this more spontaneous and self-organized…

Social movements in crisis? From the 15-M movement to the electoral shift in Spain

Ibán Díaz-Parra, Jaime Jover-Báez

Social left-wing political contestation and activism in Spain have undergone great changes over the past four years. First, there has been a shift from the 15-M movement that took…

Depoliticised activism? Ambivalence and pragmatism at the COP16

Leon Ayo Sealey-Huggins

The purpose of this paper is to interrogate the forms of activist organisation at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change COP16 in Cancún and reveals their…