Bonus: What Makes Social Movements Win (The Context)

About this episode

Deva Woodly discusses the importance of social movements for American democracy and their role in the current political climate.

This week’s episode is from our friends at The Context podcast . Deva Woodly joins host Alex Lovit to discuss the importance of social movements for American democracy and the role they can play at this precarious moment in American political history. We need these networks of trust and coordinated action to push the country away from authoritarianism and toward a democracy that works for everyone. Deva Woodly is a scholar of social movements. She is a professor of political science at Brown University and a research fellow at the Charles F. Kettering Foundation. Subscribe to The Context here: https://pod.link/1726934311 Learn more about the Charles F Kettering Foundation here: https://kettering.org  Disrupting Peace is a production of The World Peace Foundation. The show is produced by Bridget Conley and Emily Shaw. Engineering by Jacob Winik and Aja Simpson. Marketing and Social media by Kaelen Song. Show artwork by Simon Fung.  Special thanks to Jeremy Helton, Lisa Avery, B. Arneson, and Alex de Waal, and the team from the Tufts Digital Design Studio, including Kimberly Lynn Forero-Arnias, and Miles Donovan.  Find out more about the World Peace Foundation at…

People in this episode

Host: Alex Lovit

Guest: Deva Woodly

Topics covered

• social movements
• American democracy
• political history
• authoritarianism
• coordinated action

Keywords

• social movements
• democracy
• political science
• authoritarianism
• American history

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The Context, Brown University, Charles F. Kettering Foundation, World Peace Foundation, Tufts Digital Design Studio

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