Civil Resistance
What Everyone Needs to Know®
A compact look at how unarmed collective action works, falters, and leaves lasting effects.
- Themes
- Civil resistance, Nonviolent protest, Political repression
Power Without Arms
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- The many tactics of civil resistance, from strikes to boycotts
- A closer look at repression, violence, and resistance’s limits
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- Historical cases alongside contemporary movements
- A concise overview of a complex political practice
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Civil resistance is a method of conflict through which unarmed civilians use a variety of coordinated methods (strikes, protests, demonstrations, boycotts, and many other tactics) to prosecute a conflict without directly harming or threatening to harm an opponent. Sometimes called nonviolent resistance, unarmed struggle, or nonviolent action, this form of political action is now a mainstay across the globe.
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It was been a central form of resistance in the 1989 revolutions and in the Arab Spring, and it is now being practiced widely in Trump's America. If we are going to understand the manifold protest movements emerging around the globe, we need a thorough understanding of civil resistance and its many dynamics and manifestations. In Civil Resistance: What Everyone Needs to Know®, Erica Chenoweth - one of the world's leading scholars on the topic - explains what civil resistance is, how it works, why it sometimes fails, how violence and repression affect it, and the long-term impacts of such resistance. Featuring both historical cases of civil resistance and more contemporary examples such as the Arab Awakenings and various ongoing movements in the United States, this book provides a comprehensive yet pithy overview of this enormously important subject.
Publisher details
Publisher categories
- Politics & Government
- Authors
- Erica Chenoweth
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Published
- March 9, 2021
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Politics & Government