Civil Resistance Today

284 Pages·1·1.038 MB·English

by  Kurt Schock

Table of Contents
Dedication
Title page
Copyright page
Tables and Figures
Tables
Figures
Preface
Acknowledgments
1: Conceptualization and Debates
What is Civil Resistance?
Situating the Study of Civil Resistance
Questions and Debates
Conclusion
Notes
2: Civil Resistance in Theory and Practice
Civil Resistance in Practice
Civil Resistance in Theory
Conclusion
Notes
3: Proliferation and Expanding Forms of Civil Resistance
Struggles to Expand Democracy and Justice in the Developed
World
Struggles for Democracy
Struggles for National Liberation or Autonomy
Struggles Against Inequality
Conclusion
Notes
4: How Resistance Happens
Why Does Resistance Occur?
What Forms Does Resistance Take?
Conclusion
Notes
5: The State and Civil Resisters
Responses by Authorities
The Repression–Mobilization Nexus
Strategic Responses to Repression
Conclusion
Notes
6: Transnational Relations and Intervention
Transnational Activists
Transnational Organizations
Transnational Campaigns
Transnational Dynamics
Conclusion
Notes
7: Processes, Dynamics, and Outcomes
Campaign Outcomes
Mechanisms of Change
Dynamics of Civil Resistance
Context and Strategy
Conclusion
Notes
8: Conclusion
What Is Known?
Questions and Debates
Challenges and Future Research
Conclusion
Note
References
Index
End User License Agreement
List of Tables
Table 1.1. Common Distinctions between Pragmatic and Principled
Nonviolence
Table 2.1. Comparison of Social Movement/Revolution and Civil
Resistance Research
Table 2.2. Contrasting Assumptions about Political Action,
Strategy, Context, and Relation between Means and Ends
List of Illustrations
Figure 5.1. Possible Responses by Authorities to Civil Resistance
Campaigns
Figure 7.1. Spectrum of Allies (based on Oppenheimer & Lakey
1965)
Dedication
For Meg, Dylan and Lukas

Copyright page
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Civil resistance today / Kurt Schock.
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Tables and Figures
Tables
1.1 Common Distinctions between Pragmatic and Principled
Nonviolence 25
2.1 Comparison of Social Movement/Revolution and Civil Resistance
Research 48
2.2 Contrasting Assumptions about Political Action, Strategy, Context,
and Relation between Means and Ends 49
Figures
5.1 Possible Responses by Authorities to Civil Resistance Campaigns
117
7.1 Spectrum of Allies 165