Navigating Interests and Cultivating Innovation in the Study of Social Movements, Conflict, and Change

Scholarship on social movements, conflict, and change employs an array of methods and poses multiple methodological challenges. Bearing this in mind, when we wrote the call for papers for this special issue of Research in Social Movements, Conflict & Change (RSMCC), we identified a variety of potential topics that might fit the theme and included an open invitation to look beyond the topics we identified. The papers we received reflect the openness of the call, covering an exciting range of topics that engage qualitative and quantitative data, speak to issues related to data collection, coding, and analysis, and employ archival research, interviews, ethnography, and computational methods. We believe that these contributions reflect the breadth and diversity of scholarship in this field.