A Guide to Civil Resistance: A Bibliography of People Power and Nonviolent Protest

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Titel
A Guide to Civil Resistance: A Bibliography of People Power and Nonviolent Protest
Untertitel
Volume one
Verfasserangabe
ed. by April Carter ; Howard Clark ; Michael Randle. Forew. by Rogers Paul
Medienart
Sprache
Person
Verlag
Ort
London
Jahr
Umfang
257 p.
ISBN13
978-1-85425-108-4
Fußnote
Includes index.
Schlagwort
Annotation
In discussions about people power or nonviolent action, most people will immediately think of Gandhi or Martin Luther King, a few will recall the end of the Marcos regime in the Philippines in the mid-1980s, and some others will remember or have heard of the Prague Spring nearly two decades earlier. Moreover, for most activists and others involved in peace action and movements for social change, there will be little knowledge of the theories of nonviolent action and still less of the huge number of actions taken in so many countries and in such different circumstances across the world. Even recent events across the Middle East are rarely put in a broader historical context. Although the focus of this book is on post-1945 movements, the opening section provides a wide-ranging introduction to the history and theoretical bases of nonviolent action, and reflects the most recent contributions to the literature, citing key reference works.
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