Kate Shaw
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3,267 appearances
14 recordings
4 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 15 Sep
Kate Shaw’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And you emphasize that inviting people in is key to building engagement.
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And there's this data that I'd never seen that you offer from a study of fifteen thousand adults that finds that the biggest predictor of protest participation is literally whether the person has been asked to take part in the protest.
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Is that amazing?
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I mean, it is just amazing.
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I mean, there's obviously data like this in campaigns as well.
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like, you know, door knocking and in person conversation is actually still really effective at, you know, political both persuasion and turnout.
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And so I guess it's not crazy, but I had not seen this study.
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But um this the takeaway really is that literally there's not a factor that influences people to take on contentious political activism more than social connection.
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So I guess yeah Julia, how how does that change how we should think about activism and effective activism?
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standing in line to visit their loved ones at a detention facility in New Jersey, as you guys write about.
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And yeah, mutual aid as a big part of the kind of dissident practice is I think another really important through line in the book.
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But also since you mentioned Joy, um Julie, I love the chapter titles and subtitles, but you have
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One, and I can't remember if this is a title or a subtitle, but I wrote it down, The Pleasure of Agency and the Joy and Defiance.
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Like, yeah, there is joy and pleasure.
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It is not just like this is a grind, but you should do it for like these kind of higher values.
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Like it's also something that feels good when you do it.
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And that I think is really important.
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And people, I think, realize this if they're like dipping their toe in for the first time to this kind of work.
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So you said, you know, kind of wanting the the book to be useful at at kind of different sorts of interventions.
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And I actually wanted to ask a very specific question, which is that last Thursday, as part of one of our
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