The science of contemporary street protest: New efforts in the United States

DR Fisher, KT Andrews, N Caren, E Chenoweth… - Science …, 2019 - science.org
Since the inauguration of Donald Trump, there has been substantial and ongoing protest
against the Administration. Street demonstrations are some of the most visible forms of …

Contextualizing climate justice activism: Knowledge, emotions, motivations, and actions among climate strikers in six cities

M Martiskainen, S Axon, BK Sovacool, S Sareen… - Global Environmental …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract In August 2018, Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg started to strike from school on
Fridays to protest against a lack of action on the climate crisis. Her actions sparked a …

The politics of domestic climate governance: Making sense of complex participation patterns

EL Boasson, C Burns, S Pulver - Journal of European Public Policy, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This article reviews literature on six actor groups engaged in domestic mitigation
governance. It evaluates the usefulness of three climate governance models: market failure …

Intersectionality within the racial justice movement in the summer of 2020

DR Fisher, SM Rouse - Proceedings of the National …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
In an environment that is high in racial justice saliency, how do identities inform motivation
for supporting specific issues in the crowd? This study examines the role that …

Mobilizing media: Comparing TV and social media effects on protest mobilization

S Boulianne, K Koc-Michalska… - … Communication & Society, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The year 2017 saw a cycle of protest ignited by President Trump's election and subsequent
policies. This research seeks to investigate the role of social media and television in raising …

Active solidarity: Intersectional solidarity in action

RL Einwohner, K Kelly-Thompson… - … Studies in Gender …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
While solidarity lies at the heart of collective action, it is not easily achieved. Social
movements are characterized not only by difference within activist ranks but also by power …

News and geolocated social media accurately measure protest size variation

A Sobolev, MK Chen, J Joo… - American Political …, 2020 - cambridge.org
Larger protests are more likely to lead to policy changes than small ones are, but whether or
not attendance estimates provided in news or generated from social media are biased is an …

Shifting coalitions within the youth climate movement in the US

DR Fisher, S Nasrin - Politics and Governance, 2021 - cogitatiopress.com
How has the youth climate movement in the US grown since the Climate Strikes began and
in what ways did it change as it grew? This article takes advantage of a unique dataset that …

Intersectionality at the grassroots

MT Heaney - The Politics of Protest, 2020 - taylorfrancis.com
Intersectional activism is organizing that addresses more than one structure of oppression in
the struggle for social justice. The rise of the Women's March as a massive effort to mobilize …

How Tilly's WUNC works: Bystander evaluations of social movement signals lead to mobilization

ER Bailey, D Wang, SA Soule… - American Journal of …, 2023 - journals.uchicago.edu
Social movements must mobilize participation from bystanders to survive, yet there is little
research on how bystanders' evaluations of social movements predict their likelihood to join …