This special issue can be located within the renewed and growing body of social science research that critiques the dominant discourses on collective action that privilege organised, visible, and overt political movements. By drawing on political economy, feminist, queer, and ethnographic scholarship, the contributions to this issue highlight the apparently less legible modes of collective action that often unfold in everyday contexts. The six empirical articles span varied arenas, such as rural and urban, ecological and cultural, and historical and contemporary, while remaining analytically linked by their focus on how collective action occurs under conditions in which political avenues are constrained, prohibited, or inaccessible. A commentary on air pollution and respiratory solidarities, alongside a conceptual review essay and four book reviews, further broadens the conversation in this special issue. Thus, collectively, this issue argues that everyday life is an important site where collective possibilities for social change are continuously negotiated.
Rowena Robinson (Mon,) studied this question.