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Climate Activism Takes Center Stage in the Lead Up to the Climate Ambition Summit
As we approach Climate Week and the Climate Ambition Summit, there has been climate activism has become much more common. Last week, climate activists worked to raise awareness of the climate crisis through numerous non-violent acts of civil disobedience. Particularly memorable actions took place on Thursday (the 7th) when three activists delayed a game at…
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Studying the Growing Radical Flank as the World Burns
This summer, climate records have been broken again-and-again. At the same time, a small but growing part of the climate movement has been participating in more confrontational activism. I talk all about this growing “Radical Flank” (a social science term, not mine), how it fits in the movement and what we can expect as the…
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Saving Ourselves is In Press
I submitted the final Saving Ourselves manuscript to Columbia University Press last week! The book builds on the argument presented in my paper “AnthroShift in a Warming World,” which was published in Climate Action in summer 2022, to understand what it will take to get to sufficient climate action that will keep us within the…
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Hitting the Streets for EarthDay 2023 (to collect data)
I’m heading back out into the streets to survey protesters this weekend at the 2023 Earth Day Actions planned in Washington, DC. In contrast to previous Earth Day celebrations, that focused exclusively on nondisruptive events and concerts, a number of groups have announced their intentions to include disruption/civil disobedience in the actions this year. My…
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Saving Ourselves is Submitted!
A complete draft of my new book, Saving Ourselves: from Climate Shocks to Climate Action, has been submitted to Columbia University Press! There’s still some editing to be done (and updating), but this outline is what I expect we’ll see in the final manuscript when it’s published as a book in the not-too-distant future:
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Enter the Disruptors: Calling BS and Mobilizing the Masses
That’s the title of Chapter 4 of my new book, Saving Ourselves: from Climate Shocks to Climate Action, which I’m hoping will be in press at Columbia University Press by early 2023. The book synthesizes my research on climate policymaking and activism over the past 20+ years to look at where we are going and…
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Teaching How to Study #Resistance
Much of the content on this site has focused on understanding the Resistance: where it came from, who was involved, why they were involved, and what it means to political life in America today. My writing is informed by my independent research on activists and at protests in the US, along with my personal interpretation…
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What Can We Learn from the Protests Against Systemic Racism in Summer 2020?
I just posted a piece at FixGov at the Brookings Institution that summarizes my recent piece with Stella Rouse, “Intersectionality within the racial justice movement in the summer of 2020,” which was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The article analyzes data collected from participants in the protests after George Floyd…
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Stop Clapping for Tinkerbell: The Left Needs to Be OK with Getting its Hands Dirty
Yesterday, Vanessa Williamson and I published a piece in the Nation about the asymmetries in the tactics on the Left vs the Right. We point out that many progressive organizations follow “an outdated playbook of one-day rallies and electoral politics that currently can achieve no more than a pro forma vote on doomed federal legislation.”…
Dana R Fisher 