“The Difference States Make: Democracy, Identity, and the American City.”
American Political Science Review, vol. 97, no. 4 (November 2003), pp. 501-14. This article challenges a common understanding of the role that political disruption plays in promoting large-scale change. It argues that the most basic political work disruption performs is not to win public sympathy but instead to interrupt privileged people’s motivated ignorance. Drawing on
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