Social movement organizations often struggle to mobilize supporters from allied movements in their efforts to achieve critical mass. The authors argue that organizations with hybrid identities--those whose organizational identities span the boundaries of two or more social movements, issues, or identities--are vital to mobilizing these constituencies. They use original data from their study of ...

The paper is devoted to the consideration of role Internet communications in political mobilization citizens. create new opportunities for interaction and association citizens significantly accelerate mobilization. In information age, "orange revolutions", other "colour revolutions" last century were replaced by high-tech "network revolutions". Among researchers, however, there no unity underst...

Via a case study of the pay equity movement’s legal mobilization in the 1970s and 1980s, Michael McCann’s Rights at Work demonstrates how litigation can provide empowering, identity-constituting experiences for social movement participants even when it fails to produce large-scale, top-down changes in public policy. Specifically, although the struggle for pay equity emerged following women’s in...

Nowadays with the ever-increasing growth in social media platforms and the creation of different forms of online activism, the word known as “Campaign” has become a familiar and useful term in people’s everyday lives. Campaigns with all kinds of social aims especially using Hashtags are run on social media platforms by individuals, charities, NGOs, governments, municipalities and brand companie...

Students of social movements have long struggled with the question how relatively abstract political opportunities, such as elite divisions, affect unorganized activists without much knowledge of politics. We argue that the relationship between institutional opportunities and decisions to mobilize may take the form of trickle-down politics. In this view activists are affected by political oppor...

In knowledge-based economies, how can the epistemic dynamics of academic research be understood in the context of collaborative research networks where knowledge production and use increasingly merge? My starting point is a potential epistemic blind spot in knowledge mobilization research on merging production and use dynamics: ignorance. I propose a new concept, ignorance mobilization, defined...