The concept of collective identity has been used extensively by social movement scholars
seeking to explain how social movements generate and sustain commitment and cohesion …

Social and political change involves a challenge to the status quo in intergroup power
relations. Traditionally, the social psychology of social change has focused on …

In Europe, as in the rest of the Western world, scholarly interest in social movements
developed with the wave of protest that, in the late sixties, shook confidence in the 'end of …

Con un lenguaje claro, ameno y accesible, la obra de Donatella della Porta y Mario Diani
sigue siendo, hoy por hoy, una referencia obligada para los investigadores, además de un …

Civil society is frequently conceived as a field of multiple organizations, committed to highly
diverse causes and interests. When studied empirically, however, its properties are often …

The issue of psychological empowerment in crowd events has important implications for
both theory and practice. Theoretically, the issue throws light on both intergroup conflict and …

An ethnographic study of two crowd events was carried out in order to develop a hypothesis
about the experience of empowerment in collective action. Qualitative comparison of an anti …

Why would a football fan travel hundreds of miles to a city where their team is playing
without a match ticket? Why would they not wear the team's colours, and why might they …

Most research on activist participation has aimed to explain motives to engage in protest and
collective action or becoming an activist. The outcomes, for the individual, have been …

In this article, we propose a social psychological mechanism for the formation of new social
change movements. Here, we argue that social change follows the emergence of shared …