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

• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis : , : University of Minnesota Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (359 p.)
• Disciplina: 303.6/1
• Soggetto topico: Passive resistance; Nonviolence
• Persona (resp. second.): SchockKurt <1963->
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Civil resistance
• ISBN: 1-4529-4512-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910797368503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Social movements, protest, and contention ; ; v. 43.