Alejandro Ciordia
Biographic Data
| ID | 827933 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alejandro Ciordia |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alejandro |
| FAMILY NAME | Ciordia |
| SIGNATURE | CIORDIA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Maastricht University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6586-924X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Breaking the mold: The changing modularity of protest forms during cycles of contention
One crucial decision that every group of protesters needs to make concerns the forms of action through which they want to convey their claims. While repertoires of contention can vary greatly across different sociopolitical contexts, we know little about why some protest forms may acquire or lose prominence within the same polity over relatively short periods. By applying a novel multimodal network analysis framework to an original protest event …
Unequal relational gains in a sport intervention for asylum seekers: How sociodemographics and athletic skills shape network outcomes
Sport-for-development (SFD) programs are seen as inclusive intervention tools for promoting social integration and well-being among vulnerable groups. This article examines a basketball SFD initiative for asylum seekers in a mid-sized Italian city, designed to improve participants’ social capital by providing new leisure and socialization opportunities. Drawing on a panel survey that included a detailed social network module, we use descriptive n…
Shifting Grounds of Collaboration in Changing Contexts: Evolving Environmental Networks in the Basque Country
Interorganizational collaboration is crucial for collective action and political activism, particularly in environmental advocacy. Social network analysis tools are increasingly used to study collaboration among civic and political actors outside traditional institutions. While the literature has examined multiple factors influencing collaboration, less attention has been paid to how their predictive power evolves over time in response to context…
The Measurement Properties of Aggregated Relational Data and NSUM-Estimated Network Size
Aggregated relational data (ARD), derived from questions of the form “How many people do you know who [belong to subpopulation X]?” are widely used to estimate the size and composition of social networks, often adopting the network scale-up method (NSUM). However, their measurement properties are insufficiently studied. The authors address this gap by assessing (1) the test-retest reliability of a large set of ARD questions and NSUM-estimated net…
The Relational Toll of Political Involvement in Polarized Times: Relationship Decay Within Activists' Personal Networks
Active political participation and engagement in collective action are generally thought to expand activists' social networks. However, the potential negative relational consequences of political activism have seldom been examined. This article addresses this gap by assessing whether activists are more likely to experience politically motivated interpersonal conflicts with social contacts who hold different political views, and if so, why and wit…
Social Categories and Boundary-Making: Exploring the Potential of Interactive Visual Tools to Study Boundary Work within Personal Networks
Research on categorisation and boundary work has often focused on how institutional actors draw boundaries between groups of individuals, overlooking how individuals informally contest or reinforce these boundaries and categories. In this article, we make the case for new interactive qualitative data collection strategies to inductively explore social categorisation and boundary-making processes within personal networks, bringing together the pot…
Strategic Action Fields Through Digital Network Data: An Examination of Charitable Food Provision in Greater Manchester
This article illustrates how qualitative and network evidence complement one another for obtaining a deeper understanding of meso-level social orders theorized as strategic action fields. Making use of network data based on Twitter follower relationships and building on a previous qualitative study on the food charities active in Greater Manchester, we show how network-analytic formalizations of even apparently unimportant digital connections—Twi…
Using Social Network Analysis to study the Modularity of Protest Forms: The evolution of the Basque Repertoire of Contention (1980- 2014)
Demonstrations, strikes, direct actions, and acts of civil disobedience are just a few examples of the broad set of protest tactics potentially available to citizens in order to raise their demands and call the public’s attention to unjust situations. Each of these forms of claim-making can be more or less modular. Modularity, a concept originally introduced by Sidney Tarrow (1993) and popularized by Charles Tilly (1993, 1995), refers to the adap…
Less Divided After Eta? The Evolution of Ideological Cleavages in the Basque Environmental Field, 2007–2017
The Basque Country has traditionally been considered a strongly polarized political community. The influence of the center-periphery cleavage and the shadow of political violence have conditioned many aspects of social life, including relations among civic organizations. Previous literature suggests that differences in organizations’ national identities and/or position towards ETA’s (Euskadi ta Askatasuna, or Basque Country and Freedom in the Bas…
The effects of Kobane in the reconfiguration of the popular geopolitical codes of Turkey’s Kurdish movement
The attack carried out by Daesh against Kobane in 2014 prompted the mobilization of worldwide media attention and of large crowds protesting across Turkey's Kurdish-majority southeast and beyond. This paper examines the potentially transformative effects of this event on the popular geopolitical codes of the Kurdish nationalist movement in Turkey. This is done through a qualitative content analysis of 36 op-ed articles published in the newspapers…
Less Divided After Eta? The Evolution of Ideological Cleavages in the Basque Environmental Field, 2007–2017
The Basque Country has traditionally been considered a strongly polarized political community. The influence of the center-periphery cleavage and the shadow of political violence have conditioned many aspects of social life, including relations among civic organizations. Previous literature suggests that differences in organizations’ national identities and/or position towards ETA’s (Euskadi ta Askatasuna, or Basque Country and Freedom in the Bas…
The Measurement Properties of Aggregated Relational Data and NSUM-Estimated Network Size
Aggregated relational data (ARD), derived from questions of the form “How many people do you know who [belong to subpopulation X]?” are widely used to estimate the size and composition of social networks, often adopting the network scale-up method (NSUM). However, their measurement properties are insufficiently studied. The authors address this gap by assessing (1) the test-retest reliability of a large set of ARD questions and NSUM-estimated net…
Shifting Grounds of Collaboration in Changing Contexts: Evolving Environmental Networks in the Basque Country
Interorganizational collaboration is crucial for collective action and political activism, particularly in environmental advocacy. Social network analysis tools are increasingly used to study collaboration among civic and political actors outside traditional institutions. While the literature has examined multiple factors influencing collaboration, less attention has been paid to how their predictive power evolves over time in response to context…
Social Categories and Boundary-Making: Exploring the Potential of Interactive Visual Tools to Study Boundary Work within Personal Networks
Research on categorisation and boundary work has often focused on how institutional actors draw boundaries between groups of individuals, overlooking how individuals informally contest or reinforce these boundaries and categories. In this article, we make the case for new interactive qualitative data collection strategies to inductively explore social categorisation and boundary-making processes within personal networks, bringing together the pot…
Strategic Action Fields Through Digital Network Data: An Examination of Charitable Food Provision in Greater Manchester
This article illustrates how qualitative and network evidence complement one another for obtaining a deeper understanding of meso-level social orders theorized as strategic action fields. Making use of network data based on Twitter follower relationships and building on a previous qualitative study on the food charities active in Greater Manchester, we show how network-analytic formalizations of even apparently unimportant digital connections—Twi…
The effects of Kobane in the reconfiguration of the popular geopolitical codes of Turkey’s Kurdish movement
The attack carried out by Daesh against Kobane in 2014 prompted the mobilization of worldwide media attention and of large crowds protesting across Turkey's Kurdish-majority southeast and beyond. This paper examines the potentially transformative effects of this event on the popular geopolitical codes of the Kurdish nationalist movement in Turkey. This is done through a qualitative content analysis of 36 op-ed articles published in the newspapers…
The effects of Kobane in the reconfiguration of the popular geopolitical codes of Turkey’s Kurdish movement
The attack carried out by Daesh against Kobane in 2014 prompted the mobilization of worldwide media attention and of large crowds protesting across Turkey's Kurdish-majority southeast and beyond. This paper examines the potentially transformative effects of this event on the popular geopolitical codes of the Kurdish nationalist movement in Turkey. This is done through a qualitative content analysis of 36 op-ed articles published in the newspapers…
Using Social Network Analysis to study the Modularity of Protest Forms: The evolution of the Basque Repertoire of Contention (1980- 2014)
Demonstrations, strikes, direct actions, and acts of civil disobedience are just a few examples of the broad set of protest tactics potentially available to citizens in order to raise their demands and call the public’s attention to unjust situations. Each of these forms of claim-making can be more or less modular. Modularity, a concept originally introduced by Sidney Tarrow (1993) and popularized by Charles Tilly (1993, 1995), refers to the adap…
Less Divided After Eta? The Evolution of Ideological Cleavages in the Basque Environmental Field, 2007–2017
The Basque Country has traditionally been considered a strongly polarized political community. The influence of the center-periphery cleavage and the shadow of political violence have conditioned many aspects of social life, including relations among civic organizations. Previous literature suggests that differences in organizations’ national identities and/or position towards ETA’s (Euskadi ta Askatasuna, or Basque Country and Freedom in the Bas…
Strategic Action Fields Through Digital Network Data: An Examination of Charitable Food Provision in Greater Manchester
This article illustrates how qualitative and network evidence complement one another for obtaining a deeper understanding of meso-level social orders theorized as strategic action fields. Making use of network data based on Twitter follower relationships and building on a previous qualitative study on the food charities active in Greater Manchester, we show how network-analytic formalizations of even apparently unimportant digital connections—Twi…
Shifting Grounds of Collaboration in Changing Contexts: Evolving Environmental Networks in the Basque Country
Interorganizational collaboration is crucial for collective action and political activism, particularly in environmental advocacy. Social network analysis tools are increasingly used to study collaboration among civic and political actors outside traditional institutions. While the literature has examined multiple factors influencing collaboration, less attention has been paid to how their predictive power evolves over time in response to context…
The Measurement Properties of Aggregated Relational Data and NSUM-Estimated Network Size
Aggregated relational data (ARD), derived from questions of the form “How many people do you know who [belong to subpopulation X]?” are widely used to estimate the size and composition of social networks, often adopting the network scale-up method (NSUM). However, their measurement properties are insufficiently studied. The authors address this gap by assessing (1) the test-retest reliability of a large set of ARD questions and NSUM-estimated net…
The Relational Toll of Political Involvement in Polarized Times: Relationship Decay Within Activists' Personal Networks
Active political participation and engagement in collective action are generally thought to expand activists' social networks. However, the potential negative relational consequences of political activism have seldom been examined. This article addresses this gap by assessing whether activists are more likely to experience politically motivated interpersonal conflicts with social contacts who hold different political views, and if so, why and wit…
Social Categories and Boundary-Making: Exploring the Potential of Interactive Visual Tools to Study Boundary Work within Personal Networks
Research on categorisation and boundary work has often focused on how institutional actors draw boundaries between groups of individuals, overlooking how individuals informally contest or reinforce these boundaries and categories. In this article, we make the case for new interactive qualitative data collection strategies to inductively explore social categorisation and boundary-making processes within personal networks, bringing together the pot…
Breaking the mold: The changing modularity of protest forms during cycles of contention
One crucial decision that every group of protesters needs to make concerns the forms of action through which they want to convey their claims. While repertoires of contention can vary greatly across different sociopolitical contexts, we know little about why some protest forms may acquire or lose prominence within the same polity over relatively short periods. By applying a novel multimodal network analysis framework to an original protest event …
Unequal relational gains in a sport intervention for asylum seekers: How sociodemographics and athletic skills shape network outcomes
Sport-for-development (SFD) programs are seen as inclusive intervention tools for promoting social integration and well-being among vulnerable groups. This article examines a basketball SFD initiative for asylum seekers in a mid-sized Italian city, designed to improve participants’ social capital by providing new leisure and socialization opportunities. Drawing on a panel survey that included a detailed social network module, we use descriptive n…
Sociology (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Field (mathematics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Social and Cultural Dynamics (3 works)