Nonviolent Struggle
Author | : Srđa Popović |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Nonviolence |
ISBN | : 9788690899722 |
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Author | : Srđa Popović |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Nonviolence |
ISBN | : 9788690899722 |
Author | : Sharon Erickson Nepstad |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2015-09-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0190268573 |
From Gandhi's movement to win Indian independence to the Arab Spring uprisings of 2011, an expanding number of citizens have used nonviolent action to win political goals. While such events have captured the public imagination, they have also generated a new surge of scholarly interest in the field of nonviolence and civil resistance studies. Although researchers have produced new empirical data, theories, and insights into the phenomenon of nonviolent struggle, the field is still quite unfamiliar to many students and scholars. In Nonviolent Struggle: Theories, Strategies, and Dynamics, sociologist Sharon Nepstad provides a succinct introduction to the field of civil resistance studies, detailing its genesis, key concepts and debates, and a summary of empirical findings. Nepstad depicts the strategies and dynamics at play in nonviolent struggles, and analyzes the factors that shape the trajectory and outcome of civil resistance movements. The book draws on a vast array of historical examples, including the U.S. civil rights movement, the Indonesian uprising against President Suharto, the French Huguenot resistance during World War II, and Cesar Chavez's United Farm Workers. Nepstad describes both principled and pragmatic nonviolent traditions and explains various categories of nonviolent action, concluding with an assessment of areas for future research. A comprehensive treatment of the philosophy and strategy of nonviolent resistance, Nonviolent Struggle is essential reading for students, scholars, and anyone with a general interest in peace studies and social change.
Author | : Erica Chenoweth |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 451 |
Release | : 2011-08-09 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0231527489 |
For more than a century, from 1900 to 2006, campaigns of nonviolent resistance were more than twice as effective as their violent counterparts in achieving their stated goals. By attracting impressive support from citizens, whose activism takes the form of protests, boycotts, civil disobedience, and other forms of nonviolent noncooperation, these efforts help separate regimes from their main sources of power and produce remarkable results, even in Iran, Burma, the Philippines, and the Palestinian Territories. Combining statistical analysis with case studies of specific countries and territories, Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan detail the factors enabling such campaigns to succeed and, sometimes, causing them to fail. They find that nonviolent resistance presents fewer obstacles to moral and physical involvement and commitment, and that higher levels of participation contribute to enhanced resilience, greater opportunities for tactical innovation and civic disruption (and therefore less incentive for a regime to maintain its status quo), and shifts in loyalty among opponents' erstwhile supporters, including members of the military establishment. Chenoweth and Stephan conclude that successful nonviolent resistance ushers in more durable and internally peaceful democracies, which are less likely to regress into civil war. Presenting a rich, evidentiary argument, they originally and systematically compare violent and nonviolent outcomes in different historical periods and geographical contexts, debunking the myth that violence occurs because of structural and environmental factors and that it is necessary to achieve certain political goals. Instead, the authors discover, violent insurgency is rarely justifiable on strategic grounds.
Author | : A. Reading |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2015-06-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1137032723 |
If societies have only memories of war, of cruelty, of violence, then why are we called humankind? This book marks a new trajectory in Memory Studies by examining cultural memories of nonviolent struggles from ten countries. The book reminds us of the enduring cultural scripts for human agency, solidarity, resilience and human kindness.
Author | : Gene Sharp |
Publisher | : Porter Sargent Publishers |
Total Pages | : 150 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
Tre Binds værk, der beskriver og forklarer ikke-voldelige handlinger og aktioner. I bind I Power and Struggle undersøges den politiske magt og hvordan den opstår og hvordan den kan undermineres bl.a. ved at anvende ikke-vold. Udg. 1973.:105 s.:not.fig.
Author | : Stephen Zunes |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 355 |
Release | : 1991-01-16 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1577180755 |
Nonviolent Social Movements is the first book to offer a truly global overview of the dramatic growth of popular nonviolent struggles in recent years.
Author | : M. Stephan |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2009-12-07 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0230101755 |
This book examines the role of nonviolent civil resistance in challenging tyranny and promoting democratic-self rule in the greater Middle East using case studies and analyses of how religion, youth, women, technology and external actors have influenced the outcome of civil resistance in the region.
Author | : Véronique Dudouet |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2014-09-15 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1317697782 |
Investigates the decision-making process, rationale and determining factors which underlie strategic shifts from armed to nonviolent strategies of resistance Draws on a wide range of case studies from Western Sahara, Egypt, Palestine, Nepal, West Papua, South Africa, Mexico/Chiapas and Colombia. Will be of much interest to students of non-violence, peace and conflict studies, political sociology, security studies and IR in general
Author | : David Hardiman |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2018-11-15 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0190050217 |
Much of the recent surge in writing about the practice of nonviolent forms of resistance has focused on movements that occurred after the end of the Second World War, many of which have been extremely successful. Although the fact that such a method of resistance was developed in its modern form by Indians is acknowledged in this writing, there has not until now been an authoritative history of the role of Indians in the evolution of the phenomenon. Celebrated historian David Hardiman shows that while nonviolence is associated above all with the towering figure of Mahatma Gandhi, 'passive resistance' was already being practiced by nationalists in British-ruled India, though there was no principled commitment to nonviolence as such. It was Gandhi, first in South Africa and then in India, who evolved a technique that he called 'satyagraha'. His endeavors saw 'nonviolence' forged as both a new word in the English language, and a new political concept. This book conveys in vivid detail exactly what nonviolence entailed, and the formidable difficulties that the pioneers of such resistance encountered in the years 1905-19.
Author | : Charles E. Cobb |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2014-06-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0465080952 |
Visiting Martin Luther King, Jr. at the peak of the civil rights movement, the journalist William Worthy almost sat on a loaded pistol. “Just for self-defense,” King assured him. One of King's advisors remembered the reverend's home as “an arsenal.” Like King, many nonviolent activists embraced their constitutional right to self-protection—yet this crucial dimension of the civil rights struggle has been long ignored. In This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed, civil rights scholar Charles E. Cobb, Jr. reveals how nonviolent activists and their allies kept the civil rights movement alive by bearing—and, when necessary, using—firearms. Whether patrolling their neighborhoods, garrisoning their homes, or firing back at attackers, these men and women were crucial to the movement's success, as were the weapons they carried. Drawing on his firsthand experiences in the Southern Freedom Movement and interviews with fellow participants, Cobb offers a controversial examination of the vital role guns have played in securing American liberties.