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

Publication Info. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2015]
2015

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Description 1 online resource (359 pages)
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Series Social movements, protest, and contention ; volume 43
Social movements, protest, and contention ; v. 43.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 Oinsider'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.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject Passive resistance.
Nonviolence.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Schock, Kurt, 1963- editor.
Other Form: Print version: Civil resistance : comparative perspectives on nonviolent struggle. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2015] Social movements, protest, and contention ; v. 43 9780816694921
ISBN 9780816694907 (hc : alk. paper)
9780816694921 (pb : alk. paper)
9781452945125 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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