Civil resistance What everyone needs to know
Book - 2021
"Civil resistance is a form of collective action that seeks to affect political, social, or economic status quo without using violence or the threat of violence against people to do so. It is organized, public, and explicitly nonviolent in means and ends. This book will introduce you to some of the main takeaways from history about the ways that civil resistance campaigns have formed, strategized, organized, and mobilized. This chapter will introduce you to the impressive history of civil resistance over the millennia, but it will also grapple with some of the key controversies that persist regarding how to define civil resistance and how to understand its impact on the world around us. But before we discuss this technique's devel...opment over the centuries, let's define our terms"--
- Subjects
- Published
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press
[2021]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Physical Description
- xxvi, 334 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
- 9780190244392
9780190244408
- Civil resistance: a brief introduction
- The basics
- How civil resistance works
- Civil resistance and violence from within the movement
- Civil resistance and violence against the movement
- The future of civil resistance
- Appendix. List of nonviolent and violent revolutionary campaigns, 1900-2019.