... an analysis in Australian context. Activism Social movements Veganism Resource mobilization theory Nonprofit Animal rights Professor David Weisbrot, the President of the Australian Law Reform Commission, has referred to the animal advocacy movement as “perhaps the next great social justice...

... (and, more generally, the activities of contemporary social movements) is contextualized within some typical characteristics of modernity, looking both at structural “opportunities” (e.g.: the diffusion of post-materialist values) and “constraints” (e.g.: veganwashing operations). Based on previous...

... by integrating deliberative democracy theory and some radical perspectives. Social policy Political sociology Activism Civil society Social movements Today’s increasing social and economic crises and political contests around the world have prioritized research on socio-political responses...

... Limited Licensed re-use rights only This paper contributes to the specificity of the concept of a social movement scene by presenting three spatial dimensions of scenes: centrality (relative to the Central Business District), concentration (clustering of scene places in one area of the city...

...Véron Ophélie Ophélie Véron can be contacted at: ophelie.ei.veron@gmail.com 08 12 2015 07 07 2016 14 07 2016 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2016 Emerald Group Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Literature on social movements increasingly...

... is the corresponding author and can be contacted at: brisager@cas.au.dk Crisis Organization Social movements Activism Convergence Protest On 18 March 2015, thousands of protesters from the transnational Blockupy coalition, angry with the effects of crisis and austerity, descended on Frankfurt...

...Carin Runciman Cox and Nilsen (2014) propose an alternative way in which to study social movements. Developing a Marxist theory of social movements they argue, drawing from Melucci (1989) , that social movements should not be viewed as an actor seeking inclusion into a political market. Instead...

... of civic associations such as environmental groups, election‐watch groups, human rights organizations, debtors’ groups, and women’s movements. Numerous studies of social movements beginning in the 1980s appear to suggest the rise of civil society in the era of economic and political liberalization. ©...