Civil resistance : comparative perspectives on nonviolent struggle / Kurt Schock, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schock, Kurt, 1963- editor.

Series:

Social movements, protest, and contention ; v. 43.

Social movements, protest, and contention ; volume 43

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Passive resistance.

Nonviolence.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (359 pages).

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2015]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

In the past quarter century the world has witnessed dramatic social and political transformations, due in part to an upsurge in civil resistance. There have been significant uprisings around the globe, including the toppling of communist regimes in Eastern Europe, the Color Revolutions, the Arab Spring, protests against war and economic inequality, countless struggles against corruption, and demands for more equitable distribution of land. These actions have attracted substantial scholarly attention, reflected in the growth of literature on social movements and revolution as well as literature on nonviolent resistance. Until now, however, the two bodies of literature have largely developed in parallel-with relatively little acknowledgment of the existence of the other. In Civil Resistance, an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars analyzes key processes of nonviolent struggle and identifies both frictions and points of synthesis between the narrower literature on civil resistance and the broader literature on social movements and revolution. By doing so, the book pushes the boundaries of the study of civil resistance and generates social scientific knowledge that will be helpful for all scholars and activists concerned with democracy, human rights, and social justice. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: civil resistance in comparative perspective / Kurt Schock

Dynamics of civil resistance

"We do not work for peace" : reframing nonviolence in post-Oslo Palestine / Julie M. Norman

Nonviolent action as the interplay between political context and Ôinsider's knowledge' : otpor in Serbia / Janjira Sombatpoonsiri

Youth mobilization before and during the orange revolution : learning from losses / Olena Nikolayenko

How regimes counter civil resistance movements : the cases of Panama and Kenya / Sharon Erickson Nepstad

From political jiu-jitsu to the backfire dynamic : how repression promotes mobilization / Brian Martin

Sources, functions, and dilemmas of external assistance to civil resistance movements / Veronique Dudouet

Frontiers of civil resistance

Defending freedom with civil resistance in the early Roman republic / Dustin Ells Howes

Making sense of civil resistance: from theories and techniques to social movement phronesis / Sean Chabot

Four dimensions of nonviolent action : a sociological perspective / Stellan Vinthagen

Overcoming illusory division : between nonviolence as a pragmatic strategy and a principled way of life / Chaiwat Satha-Anand

Civil resistance in the twenty-first century / Kurt Schock

Acknowledgments

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

Other Format:

Print version: Civil resistance : comparative perspectives on nonviolent struggle.

ISBN:

9781452945125

OCLC:

914712387

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