The Orlando shootings as a mobilizing event: against reductionism in social movement studies

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Acknowledgments

The author would like to thank Sean Phelan, Heather Zoller, Murdoch Stephens, and the editors for their rapid, challenging, and extremely helpful feedback.

Notes

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Funding

This work was supported by a grant from the Royal Society of New Zealand’s Marsden Fund [MAU1209].