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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812672803321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis : , : University of Minnesota Press, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

1-4529-4512-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (359 p.)

Collana

Social movements, protest, and contention ; ; volume 43

Disciplina

303.6/1

Soggetti

Passive resistance

Nonviolence

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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