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View article: <i>Organising for Change</i> one year later – Response to the critics
<i>Organising for Change</i> one year later – Response to the critics Open
A year after the publication of Organising for Change it is wonderful to learn what readers think about our attempt to understand the ways in which people and organisations try to achieve or prevent social change. We are grateful to Malin …
View article: Mutual Aid as Prefigurative Politics—Beyond Anarchism
Mutual Aid as Prefigurative Politics—Beyond Anarchism Open
Since the beginning of the COVID‐19 pandemic, mutual aid has received increasing scholarly attention. Mutual aid has long been considered a form of ‘prefigurative politics’. Those engaged in mutual aid create structures and practices as po…
View article: Career Boundary Crossing: The Importance of Networks for the Transition from the Military to Civilian Employment
Career Boundary Crossing: The Importance of Networks for the Transition from the Military to Civilian Employment Open
Research on the transition from the military to civilian life tends to focus on challenges such as unemployment, alcoholism, violence, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) even though these problems affect only a minority of veterans.…
View article: Person-centred data sharing: Empirical studies in private individuals’ attitudes
Person-centred data sharing: Empirical studies in private individuals’ attitudes Open
Background Recognising the power of data analytics, researchers are anxious to gain access to personal data either directly from data subjects or via research data sets. This requires a secure environment, such as a trusted research enviro…
View article: Introduction: humanitarianism and inequality - a re-orientation
Introduction: humanitarianism and inequality - a re-orientation Open
The Handbook on Humanitarianism and Inequality gives an overview over inequalities in humanitarian contexts. Based in criticism of colonialism and coloniality it broadens and reorients the understanding of humanitarianism. Section 1 focuse…
View article: Sharenting and social media properties: Exploring vicarious data harms and sociotechnical mitigations
Sharenting and social media properties: Exploring vicarious data harms and sociotechnical mitigations Open
In this paper, we demonstrate how social media technologies can co-produce data-related harms unless preventative measures are instituted. To this end, we draw on a passive ethnography of a public Facebook group in the UK practicing sharen…
View article: Index
Index Open
low-and high-threshold online activism 65-6 occupational activism 123, 125 online activism 13, 65, 119, 120 outsider activism 1-2, 67, 152, 153, 183, 189 quiet activism 195 Access Campaign 79 accountability 97-8, 99-103, 106-7, 109 downwar…
View article: Series Editors’ Preface
Series Editors’ Preface Open
Organising is politics made durable.From co-operatives to corporations, Occupy to Meta, states and non-governmental organisations (NGOs), organisations shape our lives.They shape the possible futures of governance, policy making and social…
View article: Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements Open
We wrote this book during the COVID-19 pandemic, alongside our other responsibilities and with the help of modern technologies.In fact, except for a three-day writing retreat spent in Silke's house and Clare's parents' kitchen, we worked r…
View article: Intersectionality and coalitions in social movement research—A survey and outlook
Intersectionality and coalitions in social movement research—A survey and outlook Open
Over the last 30 years, intersectionality has become a prominent concept, but in social movement scholarship, its adoption has yet been limited. So far, the concept is primarily employed to analyze the mobilization of women of color and ot…
View article: Archaius 1(4)
Archaius 1(4) Open
Nečas, P. (2020): The dawn of Yemen Chameleons in the USA does not happen: spreading in Florida, staying in Hawaii and making it to California (Reptilia: Chamaeleonidae). - Archaius 1(4): 1-3 Nečas, P., B. Levitan & S. Roth (2020): Kinyong…
View article: Digitizing Sociology: Continuity and Change in the Internet Era
Digitizing Sociology: Continuity and Change in the Internet Era Open
This article outlines and contextualizes the development of digital sociology as an introduction to this e-special issue, charting the development of the field through the pages of the journal, Sociology. In doing so, the article sketches …
View article: Do gender regimes matter? Gender differences in involvement in anti-austerity protests - a comparison of Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom
Do gender regimes matter? Gender differences in involvement in anti-austerity protests - a comparison of Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom Open
Responses to the Great Recession are varied across welfare states and gendered in their consequences. Combining gender, social policy and social movement scholarship, this paper investigates how the differential policy responses to the Fin…
View article: Linguistic Capital and Inequality in Aid Relations
Linguistic Capital and Inequality in Aid Relations Open
Globalisation processes and the spread of English as lingua franca are closely related. I consider language skills as symbolic capital and focus on the hegemony of English as lingua franca in international aid organisations. I argue that m…
View article: Introduction: Contemporary Counter-Movements in the Age of Brexit and Trump
Introduction: Contemporary Counter-Movements in the Age of Brexit and Trump Open
Brexit and the election of President Trump in the United States are the result of the rise of far-right populist movements which can be observed in Europe, North America, and other regions of the world. Whereas populism itself is one respo…
View article: Professionalisation and precariousness: perspectives on the sustainability of activism in everyday life
Professionalisation and precariousness: perspectives on the sustainability of activism in everyday life Open
Sustainable activism requires both elasticity and rigor, the ability to learn and compromise as well as the willingness to stick to values and convictions. In this article I argue that activism and professionalisation are not necessarily m…
View article: Sociology in the 1980s: The Rise of Gender (and Intersectionality)
Sociology in the 1980s: The Rise of Gender (and Intersectionality) Open
The social, economic and political context of the 1980s in Britain shaped the contributions to the journal, and the early part of the decade was marked by emphasis on the interrelations between class and gender. The introduction of this e-…