Social Movement Studies (Journal)
Summary
Social Movement Studies — the Routledge / Taylor & Francis flagship journal for social-movement research. Current issue is Volume 25, Issue 4-5 (2026) — a special issue on “New insights into global labour: movement strategy and mobilisation in the context of crisis”, guest-edited by Elizabeth Humphrys and Katrin Uba. [source: social-movement-studies-journal]
Body
The journal’s TOC page on 2026-07-03 surfaces the Volume 25 / Issue 4-5 (2026) special issue [source: social-movement-studies-journal]. The browse also exposes 23 prior volume indices, from Volume 25 (2026) back to Volume 1 (2002) — i.e. the journal has been publishing continuously for 25 years [source: social-movement-studies-journal].
The most-recently-published articles at scrape-time: a Ceylan Hassan book review (3 Jul 2026), a Tülay Yılmaz book review (2 Jul 2026), a Yun-Tzu Chang et al. article (26 May 2026), and Katrin Uba et al.’s Introduction (16 May 2026) — the latter being the introduction to the special issue [source: social-movement-studies-journal]. The special-issue framing, New insights into global labour: movement strategy and mobilisation in the context of crisis, with Elizabeth Humphrys and Katrin Uba as guest editors, is explicit on the cover [source: social-movement-studies-journal].
The journal operates under Taylor & Francis access-rights defaults — “Only articles that you have access rights to view will be downloaded. The green tick (full access) and orange padlock (open access) icons indicate that you have full access” — i.e. a mix of subscription and Open-Access articles; cite against OA when possible [source: social-movement-studies-journal].
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Citing Social Movement Studies as the Routledge/Taylor & Francis flagship journal for movement research; pointing to Volume 25 / Issue 4-5 (2026) special issue on global-labour movement strategy and mobilisation in the context of crisis, guest-edited by Humphrys & Uba; citing Yun-Tzu Chang et al. (online 26 May 2026) and the Katrin Uba et al. Introduction (online 16 May 2026) as the most-recent papers from the special issue at scrape-time.
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- sources/social-movement-studies-journal — grounding: primary — RAW (4,213 chars; tandfonline.com/toc/csms20/current journal TOC, Volume 25 / Issue 4-5 (2026))
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