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1. Book Review: Journey into Social Activism: Qualitative Approaches

   In a preliminary content analysis of articles in the top social movement journals, Atkinson finds that scholars of social activism typically use a broad range of qualitative research methodologies. However, scholars of activism rarely elaborate on the methods they use. Similarly, previous research has largely failed to bring together and critically assess the qualitative methodologies used to study social activism.

2. A New Political Generation: Millennials and the Post-2008 Wave of Protest

   Building on Karl Mannheim’s theory of generations, this address argues that U.S. Millennials comprise a new political generation with lived experiences and worldviews that set them apart from their elders. Not only are they the first generation of “digital natives,” but, although they are more educated than any previous U.S. generation, they face a labor market in which precarity is increasingly the norm.

3. Why Is There No Labor Party in the United States? Political Articulation and the Canadian Comparison, 1932 to 1948

   Why is there no labor party in the United States? This question has had deep implications for U.S. politics and social policy. Existing explanations use "reflection" models of parties, whereby parties reflect preexisting cleavages or institutional arrangements. But a comparison with Canada, whose political terrain was supposedly more favorable to labor parties, challenges reflection models.

4. Protest Campaigns and Movement Success: Desegregating the U.S. South in the Early 1960s

   Can protest bring about social change? Although scholarship on the consequences of social movements has grown dramatically, our understanding of protest influence is limited; several recent studies have failed to detect any positive effect. We investigate sit-in protest by black college students in the U.S. South in 1960, which targeted segregated lunch counters.

5. It’s Better to be Angry Together

   Contexts, Volume 16, Issue 4, Page 52-59, Fall 2017.
   

6. From Ferguson to France

   Jean Beaman compares the conditions that led to 2005 uprisings in French banlieues and 2014 protests in cities across the U.S.

7. Ferguson and “Rapid-Response” Teaching

   Christopher Todd Beer on bringing current events into the classroom without relying on the whims of a news cycle.

8. A Fracking Fracas Demonstrates Movement Potential

   A social movement against fracking is scoring victories in some states but not others. Why are some groups finding more success?

9. Can New Media Save the Book?

   The New Books Network is using new media to stoke interest in books across a range of disciplines.

10. RaceBaitR Talks #HistoryByHillary, Queerness

    Steven W. Thrasher and genderqueer activist Hari Ziyad on calling out hypocrisy and fighting racism without engaging racists.