Civil Resistance Today

From Gandhi?s salt march to the US civil rights movement and Occupy Wall Street, nonviolent campaigns to promote democracy, human rights and social justice have long played an important transformative role in local, national and global politics.

Auteur

Kurt Schock is Associate Professor of Sociology and Global Affairs at Rutgers University.

Contenu

• 1 Conceptualization and Debates 2 Civil Resistance in Theory and Practice 3 Proliferation and Expanding Forms of Civil Resistance 4 How Resistance Happens 5 The State and Civil Resisters 6 Transnational Relations and Intervention 7 Processes, Dynamics & Outcomes * 8 Conclusion