Civil resistance
Subtitle: comparative perspectives on nonviolent struggle
By: Kurt Schock, editor
Series: Social movements, protest, and contention -- volume 43; Social movements, protest, and contention -- v. 43.
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780816694907; 9780816694921
Subjects: Passive resistance; Nonviolence
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: civil resistance in comparative perspective / Kurt Schock; title: Dynamics of civil resistance; title: "We do not work for peace" : reframing nonviolence in post-Oslo Palestine / Julie M. Norman; title: Nonviolent action as the interplay between political context and insider's knowledge' : otpor in Serbia / Janjira Sombatpoonsiri; title: Youth mobilization before and during the orange revolution : learning from losses / Olena Nikolayenko; title: How regimes counter civil resistance movements : the cases of Panama and Kenya / Sharon Erickson Nepstad; title: From political jiu-jitsu to the backfire dynamic : how repression promotes mobilization / Brian Martin; title: Sources, functions, and dilemmas of external assistance to civil resistance movements / Veronique Dudouet; title: Frontiers of civil resistance; title: Defending freedom with civil resistance in the early Roman republic / Dustin Ells Howes; title: Making sense of civil resistance: from theories and techniques to social movement phronesis / Sean Chabot; title: Four dimensions of nonviolent action : a sociological perspective / Stellan Vinthagen; title: Overcoming illusory division : between nonviolence as a pragmatic strategy and a principled way of life / Chaiwat Satha-Anand; title: Civil resistance in the twenty-first century / Kurt Schock.