Abstract
The organizational turn in the study of social movements, dating back to the resource mobilization thesis of the 1970s, was a welcome shift away from depictions of protests as riotous, contagious reactions to strains, breakdowns, and heightened emotionality. This literature refuted the mischaracterization of social movements as akin to mobs. Instead, movements and related protest events were depicted as strategized, highly organized, rational responses to injustices, both real and perceived. The role of spontaneity in protest, therefore, came to be considered as little more than a rhetorical device, or an erroneous, naïve description of how protest works. Recent scholarship has demonstrated otherwise, however, by reconceptualizing and resuscitating the importance of spontaneity in the dynamics of social movements and protest events.
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