| International Zapatismo: The construction of solidarity in the age of globalization T Olesen Zed Books, 2005 | 424 | 2005 |
| Transnational publics: New spaces of social movement activism and the problem of global long-sightedness T Olesen Current Sociology 53 (3), 419-440, 2005 | 179 | 2005 |
| Globalising the Zapatistas: from Third World solidarity to global solidarity? T Olesen After the Third World?, 242-254, 2013 | 147 | 2013 |
| The transnational Zapatista solidarity network: an infrastructure analysis T Olesen Global networks 4 (1), 89-107, 2004 | 106 | 2004 |
| Memetic protest and the dramatic diffusion of Alan Kurdi T Olesen Media, Culture & Society 40 (5), 656-672, 2018 | 101 | 2018 |
| Global injustice symbols and social movements T Olesen Springer, 2015 | 90 | 2015 |
| “We are all Khaled said”: Visual injustice symbols in the Egyptian revolution, 2010–2011 T Olesen Advances in the visual analysis of social movements, 3-25, 2013 | 86 | 2013 |
| ‘In the Court of Public Opinion’ Transnational Problem Construction in the HIV/AIDS Medicine Access Campaign, 1998–2001 T Olesen International Sociology 21 (1), 5-30, 2006 | 65 | 2006 |
| The uses and misuses of globalization in the study of social movements T Olesen Social Movement Studies 4 (1), 49-63, 2005 | 58 | 2005 |
| Social movement theory and radical Islamic activism T Olesen Islamism as social movement, 7-13, 2009 | 55 | 2009 |
| Power and transnational activism T Olesen Routledge, 2011 | 52 | 2011 |
| Greta Thunberg’s iconicity: Performance and co-performance in the social media ecology T Olesen New Media & Society 24 (6), 1325-1342, 2022 | 44 | 2022 |
| The porous public and the transnational dialectic: The Muhammed cartoons conflict T Olesen Acta Sociologica 50 (3), 295-308, 2007 | 39 | 2007 |
| Malala and the politics of global iconicity T Olesen The British Journal of Sociology 67 (2), 307-327, 2016 | 36 | 2016 |
| Activist Journalism? The Danish Cheminova debates, 1997 and 2006 T Olesen Journalism Practice 2 (2), 245-263, 2008 | 36 | 2008 |
| The politics of whistleblowing in digitalized societies T Olesen Politics & Society 47 (2), 277-297, 2019 | 35 | 2019 |
| The Muhammad cartoons conflict and transnational activism T Olesen Ethnicities 9 (3), 409-426, 2009 | 35 | 2009 |
| Contentious cartoons: Elite and media-driven mobilization T Olesen Mobilization: An International Quarterly 12 (1), 37-52, 2007 | 35 | 2007 |
| The funny side of globalization: Humour and humanity in Zapatista framing T Olesen International Review of Social History 52 (S15), 21-34, 2007 | 33 | 2007 |
| The democratic drama of whistleblowing T Olesen European Journal of Social Theory 21 (4), 508-525, 2018 | 31 | 2018 |
