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Moving the Social - Journal of Social History and the History of Social Movements is a multi-disciplinary, international and peer-reviewed journal. It focuses on transnational and comparative perspectives on the history of social movements set in a wider context of social history. It appears twice yearly. During the last evaluation of the ESF Standing Committee for the Humanities (2011), the Journal was ranked INT2 (international with significant visibility).
Moving the Social publishes research at the cutting edge of social history, broadly defined. This involves in particular the analysis of the diversity of economic, social, political and mental structures of social movements, from historical and social science perspectives, and the introduction of new research that is relevant to the field of social movement studies.

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Editor´s Introduction
Kristian Naglo/Jürgen Mittag/Dilwyn Porter: Defining, Interpreting and Comparing Small Worlds of Football
Articles
Dilwyn Porter: Researching the History of Grassroots Football in England: Sources and Opportunities
Conor Curran: ´It has almost been an underground movement´. The Development of Grassroots Football in Regional Ireland: the Case of the Donegal League, 1971-1996
Darius Zifonun/Kristian Naglo: Core Activity, Event and Crisis: Making the Small Worlds of Amateur Football
Jochem Kotthaus/Karsten Krampe/Nina Leicht/Sina-Marie Levenig/Sebastian Weste: Problematic Possibilities and Choosing between Courses of Action: Findings of an Ethnographic Study on the Parents of Pre-Adolescent, Non-Professional Soccer Players
Nina Degele: Talking Football: Challenging Discrimination and Homophobia
Review
Jürgen Mittag: Protests and Social Movements in Football as an Emerging Field of Research: A Review on Sport Politics Studies between the Local and the Global

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