Neal Caren–PI. To understand social movements and the politics of the disadvantaged, one needs to understand social movement and political advocacy organizations (SMOs) and their media coverage. SMOs provide critical resources to seek social change, help to construct political identities … Continued

Don Nonini and Dorothy (Dottie) Holland–Co-PIs. In a multi-sited ethnographic study of local food activism in four regions of North Carolina, the researchers found there are major differences between food security and sustainable agriculture activisms, and neither one constitutes a social movement. Although they … Continued

Kenneth “Andy” Andrews–PI. The study examines two central questions in the study of protest and social movements: how movements emerge and how movements generate political victories. Despite significant progress of both the emergence and consequences of movements, many theoretical insights have … Continued

Neal Caren–PI. Newspapers are one of the most prevalent data sources for scholars interested in social movements. Whether the academic interest is in protest events or social movement organizations (SMOs), scholars very often rely on data culled from newspapers to … Continued