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The Centre on Social Movement Studies

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Environmental movement response to the polycrisis: cleavages, coalitions and interaction

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The workshop will bring together a range of insights from a variety of cases, contexts, and disciplines to better understand the internal cleavages as well as coalition strategies of contemporary environmental movements. The context in which environmental movements find themselves (and have been challenging) include several overlapping global and international crises that have their particular local impacts. This one-day workshop will provide a space for exchange and reflection on empirical and theoretical explorations to strengthen our understanding of a critical subject in a time of critical importance.

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Edited Volume - 2026

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Manuela Caiani, Marco Solinas, Hans-Jorg Trenz

Monograph - 2025

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Communication creates partial organization: A comparative analysis of the organizing practices of two climate action movements, Youth for Climate and Fridays for Future Italy

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This article focuses on a neglected aspect of the climate action movement Fridays for Future, namely, the relationship between its mediated communication practices and its early organizational processes. Drawing from a strand of organizational communication that underscores the constitutive dimension of communication to organizing processes, we analyze the significance of mediatized leadership and networked communication for the foundation and early development of two national chapters of Fridays for Future: Youth for Climate (YFC) Belgium and Fridays for Future Italy (FFFI).

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