| dc.description.abstract | Can a crowd of individuals who are motivated by a range of issues related to racial identity,
class, gender and sexuality mobilize around a shared issue, and, if so, how does this process
work in practice? To date, limited research has explored intersectionality as a mobilization tool
for social movements. This paper expands recent work on how intersectional motivations
influence the constituencies at protest events by comparing across some of the largest events that
have taken place in Washington, DC since the Resistance began. We explore patterns of
motivations of participants in marches over the first year of the Trump Presidency. Our analyses
demonstrate how individuals’ motivations to participate represented an intersectional set of
issues and how patterns of issues emerge. However, when we look across the marches, we find
that the patterns are not durable, indicating the limitations of interpretations of the Resistance as
a unified intersectional movement. | en_GB |
