Chandra Russo

Russo’s research seeks to better understand how social movement participants come to see violence and injustice that dominant perspectives occlude while imagining and enacting radical alternatives. The US-based groups she examines contest a range of issues that are global in reach, from militarism and state retrenchment to ecological crisis and racial violence, and do so in creative and often unlikely ways. Through participant observation, interviews, surveys and archival investigation, Russo contributes to our understanding of how movement groups enact solidarity across various kinds of social difference.