This book is about the "public realm" defined as a particular kind of social territory that is found almost exclusively in large settlements. This particular form of social-psychological space comes into being whenever a piece of actual physical space is dominated by relationshi…
The research draws on an ethnographic research and explores the everyday practice of collective action in Ugbawka in Enugu State by using interviews and participant observation. The study reveals that smallholder collective action is not best fitted into formal institutional arr…
This study examines Al-Ḥirāk Al-Shabābī Al-ʾUrdunī (the Jordanian Youth Movement), from now on the HSU, and aims to be a first scholarly attempt at mapping the organisation, strategy, challenges, and significance of this youth-led and youth-organised social movement. Taking an i…
The aim of this thesis is to extend the social identity model of crowd behaviour (Reicher, 1984, 1987, 1996) by exploring the experience of collective participation, with an emphasis upon quality of within-crowd social relations (‘relatedness') and collective emotionality. A mul…
The Contentious collective action and mobilization theories have had limited success in explaining why individuals mobilize for action in authoritarian societies. The theory of political inclusion provides a new perspective into a movement as a whole while remaining parsimonious…
Concessions are the crucially important benefits that individuals seek when they decide to participate in collective action, yet they are poorly understood. In particular, it remains unclear why authoritarian governments, which rely on coercion to maintain control, promise conce…
In 1519, after the death of Emperor Maximilian, the citizens of Vienna revolted against the emperor’s regency government and seized control of the city. This uprising soon expanded to the aristocratic estates, who joined forces with the urban rebels to challenge the authority of…
Modern technology has fundamentally changed the way individuals and groups organize and share information for mobilization. Specifically, social networking sites empower individuals, facilitate unification of like-minded parties, and serve as communication and coordination mecha…
Written with a contemporary European context of economic, social and reproductive crisis in mind, this thesis presents research about, from and for social movements that struggle against precarity, austerity and capitalist accumulation. Based on accounts and analyses of feminist…
Members of racially marginalized communities resist oppression through collective acts of protest and solidarity. Though these acts have been well documented throughout history, there is limited work in psychology examining Asian American own-group activism and solidarity with o…
This dissertation examines the national-democratic movements in Azerbaijan and Kyrgyzstan before and after the collapse of the USSR. It looks at the question of why the movements that began from similar points ended up with different outcomes. The selection of cases relies on th…
This dissertation examines Islamic collective action and patterns of mobilization in Jordan. Some Islamic movement groups mobilize through formal, grassroots organizations in civil society, while others operate through informal social networks. I argue that the differing pattern…
This dissertation evaluates the applicability of Elinor Ostrom's theory of the commons to other forms of collective action by mapping it on a case study of the Oromia Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union in Ethiopia and its efforts to overcome the vast disparities that have long str…
Previous studies of the "leveraged affordances" approach to collective action have only studied the communicative costs of collective action. This thesis takes the next step by applying affordances literature to high-risk contention. By utilizing illustrative case studies, the t…
Despite increasing scholarly interest in the relationship between social networks and collective action, there is still limited evidence on how networks matter at the global level in shaping collective action outcomes, and how these structures emerge in the first place. Conseque…
This dissertation tests whether the difference in numbers of civic digital campaigns across countries, normalized by population and number of internet users, is explained by a multi-theoretical perspective that integrates the structural, cultural and sociopsychological contextua…
Why an individual rebels, why an individual joins collective action, and how that manifests to violence are not new questions, but are questions that continue to pose a significant scientific challenge. It is the role of the conflict analyst to answer these questions by explorin…
The change to the international system affected by the disintegration of the Soviet Union has been quicker than anticipated. After a brief transitional period, epitomized by strong American political and military leadership in the Persian Gulf War, the post-Cold War world has em…
