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Organizing Resistance in the Districts
Attached is my draft of Chapter 4, which focuses on Organizing Resistance in the Districts. This chapter is likely to change substantially as election season heats up. For now, though, it sets the stage regarding how “Resistance Groups” are organizing in the districts: groups are maintaining a hyper-local focus that aims to fill what many…
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Breaking up the Resistance in the Districts
I write with some major changes to the structure of American Resistance (the book project, not the movement): While doing the fieldwork collecting data with protesters at various events and interviewing so-called Resistance Groups about their work in the districts, I realized that there was a missing piece to this puzzle. As a result, I am breaking…
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And the Marches Keep Coming
This weekend, the second March for Science will take place in Washington DC and 230 other ‘sister marches’ around the world. There’s no question that the flagship March in Washington, DC will have better weather–last year it was chilly with lots of rain. Research has corroborated what you might expect: nice weather is associated with…
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Teachers in Red States Resist
At the same time that the survivors from the school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida were leading political resistance around gun control, teachers in a number of Red states have gone on strike. So far, teachers have walked out in West Virginia, Oklahoma, and Kentucky, and it is possible that other…
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The Challenges of Doing Public Social Science
I started this site as a means of getting my findings out to the public quickly so the work can contribute to the conversation about the Resistance and where it is going in America. To that end, I post drafts of chapters as they are written, provide summaries of preliminary findings, and give an overview…
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The March for Our Lives Joins #theResistance
This past weekend, streets around the US and beyond were flooded with rallies once again, this time for the March for Our Lives. The March in DC is estimated to have brought out up to 800,000 people to rally around the issue of Gun Control. I was in the crowds in DC, surveying with a…
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Patterns of Intersectional Motivations Across the Resistance
” Why Are We Here? Patterns of Intersectional Motivations Across the Resistance,” which is an updated and expanded version of work that I first presented on this site is now available at SocArXiv. The paper looks across the large-scale protest events of 2017 to understand the patterns of motivations that mobilized participants. Similar analyses for…
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Getting ready for the #MarchforOurLives
This weekend, people will be marching around the country to protest Gun Violence in America at the March for Our Lives. Sadly, this event follows another school shooting–this morning– in Maryland. It is unclear how many people will be turning out (research finds that turnout is directly related to the weather and current events), but…
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Some Updates on American Resistance
Tomorrow, I begin a set of talks around the US–starting at SXSW on Friday the 9th. Check out the Events page for a full list and try to come if you can! In the meantime, I am preparing to collect data at the March for Our Lives in Washington, DC on 24 March to add to…
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The Resistance Takes Aim at Gun Violence
On 14 February, 17 people were murdered at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida by a gunman who stormed the school with an assault style AR-15 rifle. In the days following the school shooting, we have seen the usual political dance unfold with lawmakers publicly denouncing gun violence and myriad offers of thoughts and prayers. …
Dana R Fisher 