What will be the legacy of the Gen-Z acephalous protest movements?

Cammaerts, B.

(5 November 2025) What will be the legacy of the Gen-Z acephalous protest movements? Media@LSE.

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LSE’s Professor Bart Cammaerts explains the similarities between a range of protests around the world driven by Gen-Z, and how the digital context enables the emergence of these ‘acephalous’ – or ‘headless’ – movements.

Item Type	Blog post
Copyright holders	© 2025 The Author(s)
Departments	LSE > Academic Departments > Media and Communications
Date Deposited	09 Jan 2026
URI	https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/130560

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Cammaerts, Bart

PN1990 Broadcasting
HM Sociology
JQ Political institutions Asia, Africa, Australia, Pacific

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