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The Resistance: The Dawn of the Anti-Trump Opposition Movement

The Resistance: The Dawn of the Anti-Trump Opposition Movement

by Sidney Tarrow (Editor), David S. Meyer (Editor)

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Synopsis

Even before the 2016 presidential election took place, groups and individuals angry at Donald Trump, and frightened about what a Trump presidency could mean, were taking to the streets. After the election, and particularly after he inaugural, the protests continued. Over time, the Resistance was joined by a broad variety of groups and embraced an increasing diversity of tactics. In The Resistance, David S. Meyer and Sidney Tarrow have gathered together a cast of eminent scholars to tackle the emergence of a volatile and diverse movement directed against the Trump presidency. Collectively, the contributors examine the origins and concerns of different factions of this movement, and evaluate their prospects for surviving and exercising political influence. Through a range of analytical and methodological approaches, The Resistance offers both an overview of the broad scope of the emerging movement and sharp analyses of the campaign as it works through the numerous crises that the Trump era has introduced.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 360
 Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 25 Oct 2018
ISBN 10: 0190886188
ISBN 13: 9780190886189

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The shocking 2016 election stirred hundreds of thousands of American citizens to protest and organize. This important collection assembles the best early studies of the leaders, organizations, and activists who make up a remarkable mass resistance movement. This volume is sure to attract a wide readership-and stimulate lots of further research and debates. -Theda Skocpol, Scholars Strategy Network and Harvard University


In this outstanding collection of essays David Meyer and Sidney Tarrow engage with the challenges posed by the rise of Republican populism around the Trump presidency and its effects on democratic institutions. Taking the Women's March of January 2017 as their starting point the contributors assess resistance and counter resistance movements in America which have flourished since the election of 2016. The distinguished contributors place these forces in the context of previous social movements such as the civil rights and Latino immigrant rights struggles and comparative movements, and carefully analysis the key actors and likely future dynamics of the current resistance. The Resistance is a timely, empirically rich and intellectually compelling volume which will become required reading for scholars and students of US politics. -Desmond King, University of Oxford


The fascinating essays in this volume describe in rich detail the resistance, the kaleidoscope of activism that has emerged in the United States since the 2016 election. Yet the contemporary politics of contestation did not begin with Donald Trump's ascent to the White House; to the contrary, as these authors astutely show, social movement activity on both the right and left, across decades of political development, inadvertently created the strong base within the Republican Party that fueled his rise and remain steadfast in support. The Resistance offers astute historical and comparative analysis to illuminate the politics of our times. Its sober assessment, infused with caution but not without hope, provides keys to understanding how our fragile democracy can be saved. -Suzanne Mettler, Clinton Rossiter Professor of American Institutions, Cornell University


Author Bio
David S. Meyer is Professor of Sociology, Political Science, and Planning, Policy, and Design, at the University of California, Irvine. His general areas of interest include social movements, political sociology, and public policy, and he is most directly concerned with the relationships between social movements and institutional politics. He is author of many academic articles, and author or coeditor of 8 books; he blogs at Politicsoutdoors.com. Sidney Tarrow (PhD, Berkeley, 1965) is the Emeritus Maxwell M. Upson Professor of Government at Cornell University and an Adjunct Professor at the Cornell Law School. Tarrow has his BA from Syracuse, his MA from Columbia, and his PhD from Berkeley. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Tarrow has served as Program co-Chair of the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting and as President of the APSA Section on Comparative Politics. Tarrow has been visiting professor at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques, the Central European University, the European University Institute, and the University of Trento.