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Civil resistance : comparative perspectives on nonviolent struggle

Kurt Schock (Editor)
Print Book, English, 2015
University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2015
350 pages ; 23 cm.
9780816694907, 9780816694921, 0816694907, 0816694923
896954147
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