Contemporary grassroots movements increasingly operate through translocal structures that combine decentralized organizations, place-based action, and hybrid practices across distances. These Translocal Networks (TLNs) form part of a broader network of socio-ecological activism, linking diverse initiatives through national and translocal-hub nodes. Beyond their organizational structure, they constitute a field of relational becoming, in which collective action, affect, relationality and material-discursive exchanges co-produce forms of co-agency and meaning-making. Operating across multi-scalar and hybrid environments, these networks enable emergent forms of social learning, collective imagination, and regenerative activism. TLNs of grassroot movements such as the Transition Network (TN) and the Global Ecovillage Network (GEN) exemplify this configuration, promoting relationality, regeneration, and deep culture change as integral dimensions of political mobilization. In this paper, these cases are approached as forms of political activism that challenge conventional understandings of collective action by integrating affective-embodied practices, more-than-human ontologies, and processes of inner transformation within hybrid repertoires of action. While social movement and network-based approaches have examined decentralized governance, connective action and prefigurative strategies in contemporary social movements, less attention has been paid to the hybrid, embodied, and intersubjective practices through which activism unfolds across entangled digital and material environments. Within these hybrid spaces, emerging ontologies of interbeing, cosmologies of togetherness, and relational epistemologies challenge representational approaches by foregrounding the mutual constitution of human, more-than-human and technological actors. These relational dynamics call for methodological approaches capable of engaging visual, affective, and embodied dimensions of activism as co-constitutive forces of transformation. In TLNs such as TN and GEN, systemic transformation is articulated through practices toward interiority - shift in values, worldviews, and cultural practices - yet these dimensions remain undertheorized within social and grassroot movement studies. In the face of increased isolationism and the fragmentation of the world, this paper argues that translocal socio-ecological movements enact forms of new materialist collective action in which affect, vitality, embodiment, and relationality configure activism as a distributed and co-constitutive process. Their hybrid repertoires of ‘inner and outer’ activism mobilize affective approaches, embodied practices, digital infrastructures technology, to sustain regenerative cultural transformation and togetherness. Understanding these dynamics requires an approach that acknowledges the entanglement of inter-subjectivity, materiality, and discourse in shaping social learning, meaning-making and contemporary activism. Methodologically, the research adopts a preliminary exploratory qualitative design oriented toward theory-building and visual sociology. It utilizes visual-text analysis and participant observation, examining multimodal artifacts produced by TN and GEN - including digital media and imagery - including images, newsletters, and digital media - to examine how affective, embodied, and relational dynamics are enacted and circulated within these hybrid networks. Anchored in new materialism’s transdisciplinary theory, the study conceptualizes matter as vibrant, relational, and agentic in the production of social realities. By foregrounding embodied, affective, and more-than-human dimensions of activism, this paper contributes to expanding social movement theory beyond representational approaches, offering new insights into hybrid social learning practices and regenerative transformation in post-millennial social movements.

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New materialism hybridity,more-than-human affect,embodied relationality,interiority as agency,hybrid social learning practices,translocal networks,affective-visual sociology