Publications

Journal Articles

• Lang, Allison. Forthcoming. “Unpacking the Ordinary and Extraordinary: What Ethnography Can Teach Us About the Everyday Life of Social Movements.” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography.

• Lang, Allison. Forthcoming. “Confluent Activism: Scaling up Fluid Resistance in the Argentine Anti-Mining Movement.” Qualitative Sociology.

• Auyero, Javier, Allison Lang, and Sofía Servían. 2025. “A Thing That Works: A Case Study of Success at the Urban Margins.” Journal of Latin American Studies 1-25. doi:10.1017/S0022216X25101193.

• Auyero, Javier, Faith M. Deckard, Alex Diamond, Maricarmen Hernández, Katherine Jensen, Allison Lang, Eldad Levy, Águeda Ortega, Katherine Sobering, and Mary Ellen Stitt. Forthcoming. “Why Ethnography?” Qualitative Sociology.

• Lang, Allison. 2019. “El Abrazo Simbólico: El Repertorio de Acción en Defensa del Espacio Educativo en Buenos Aires.” Crítica y Resistencias: Revista de Conflictos Sociales Latinoamericanos 9:39-53.

Public Sociology Writing

• Charrad, Mounira M. and Allison Lang. 2025. Enduring Social Movements. Critical Mass Bulletin, newsletter of the Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements, American Sociological Association, 50:3.

• Lang, Allison. 2025. “La Leyenda del Algarrobo Caminante.” Revista Anfibia. https://www.revistaanfibia.com/la-leyenda-del-algarrobo-caminante/.

• Lang, Allison and Javier Auyero. 2024. “What Works: Lessons on Fighting Oppression and Building Power from Across The Globe.” Public Books. https://www.publicbooks.org/what-works-lessons-on-fighting-oppression-and-building-power-from-across-the-globe/.

In Progress

• Paxton, Pam, Allison Lang, Sumin Lee, and Andrew Messamore. Under Review. “‘There’s a War Going On’: How Nonprofit Organizations Understand the ‘Right’ Way to Approach Substance Abuse.

• Lang Allison, Sumin Lee, and Pam Paxton. “Strategic Climate Communication: How Environmental Nonprofits Build Bridges Between the Local and Global.”