“Populism as a Collective Action Master Frame for Transnational Mobilization,” article in Sociological Forum (2018)
Occupy Wall Street, the Greek and Spanish indignados, and other important movements swept across the Western world from 2011 onward, redefining political and social conflict during the global economic meltdown of the Great Recession. These movements have earned well‐deserved academic attention, but the resulting scholarship is lacking a crucial pillar: a comparative analysis of the collective action frames employed by movement entrepreneurs. In this article, Paris Aslanidis identifies the master frame at work and uncovers shared processes of strategic meaning making and collective identity construction during this transnational cycle of contention.