Cristina Flesher Fominaya is an Editor of Social Movement Studies, a Founding Editor of Interface Journal, and author of Social Movements and Globalization (Palgrave). She is Reader (Research Professor) in Social Politics and Media at Loughborough University, UK. She publishes widely on European and global social movements, hybrid parties, digital politics and media, collective identity, democracy, autonomy, and political participation. She holds an MA and PhD in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley.