Making A Scene

Making a Scene is an ethnographic account of social movement scenes—networks of places and people that are connected to social movements—in Sweden’s three major cities. From the visible, concentrated activism of central Malmö to the scattered and temporary actions in the Göteborg and Stockholm suburbs, Making a Scene is the first book-length study of autonomous social movements in Scandinavia. Taking readers on a journey through squatted industrial spaces, punk rock clubs, street festivals, and social centers, the book examines how autonomous social movements respond to gentrification by creating their own cultural landscape in cities and suburbs. Rich, ethnographic detail blends with sociological and geographical scholarship to explain spatial features of social movements, exploring how some urban social movements are embedded in the urban landscape while others struggle to leave a mark.

Journal Articles

Creasap, Kimbery. 2022. “Small Town Pride.” Contexts, Spring 2022, pp. 54-56

Creasap, Kimberly. 2020. “’Building Future Politics’: Projectivity and Prefiguration in a Swedish Social Center.” Social Movement Studies 20 (1): 1-17

Creasap, Kimberly. 2016. “Finding the Movement: The Geographies of Social Movement Scenes.” International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 36 (11/12). 

Creasap, Kimberly. 2014. “Zine-Making as Feminist Pedagogy.” Feminist Teacher. 24(3): 155-168.

Creasap, Kimberly. 2012. “Social Movement Scenes: Place-Based Politics and Everyday Resistance.” Sociology Compass, 6 (2): 182-191.

Blee, Kathleen M. and Kimberly Creasap. 2011. “Conservative and Right-Wing Movements.” Annual Review of Sociology, 36 (1): 269-286.