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Power for the Powerless: Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Late Theory of Civil Disobedience
Journal of Politics, 2020Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” has been canonized as an essential statement of the political theory of civil disobedience. This article examines the early reception of King’s essay and the development of the liberal idea of ...
Alexander Livingston
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, 2017
The philosophical discussion about civil disobedience has reached a curious juncture. On the one hand, there has been a wave of recent writing on the topic, which builds upon and updates the earlier explosion of philosophical interest triggered by the ...
Lewis Perry
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The philosophical discussion about civil disobedience has reached a curious juncture. On the one hand, there has been a wave of recent writing on the topic, which builds upon and updates the earlier explosion of philosophical interest triggered by the ...
Lewis Perry
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Can Climate Civil Disobedience be Justified?
On Thinking, 2023Some people have engaged in acts of civil disobedience to protest against the climate policies of their governments and corporations. This article argues that these disobedient actions are justified at present since governments fail to do all they ...
Douglas Bamford
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Strikingly educational: A childist perspective on children’s civil disobedience for climate justice
Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2021In this paper, we offer a childist reading of school strikes for climate in an overheated world. We argue that school strikes can be understood as offering a dynamic counterweight to formal education, by providing opportunities for children to self ...
Tanushree Biswas, Nikolas Mattheis
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When the political is professional: Civil disobedience in psychology.
American Psychologist, 2021Activists use civil disobedience as a means of putting social justice into practice. Psychologists can engage in civil disobedience to enact psychology's ethical principles, support marginalized communities, promote social welfare, and contest injustice.
Anthony W P Flynn +4 more
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Civil Disobedience, Sabotage, and Violence in US Environmental Activism
The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Environmental Politics, 2021This chapter explores the logic of illegal or “radical” tactics in the United States environmentalist movement, generating broader theoretical insights to guide research in other national settings.
Joseph M. Brown
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Global Citizenship, Global Civil Disobedience, and Political Vices
The Cambridge Companion to Civil Disobedience, 2021: Theorists have increasingly argued that some principled law breaking which crosses territorial or citizenship boundaries should be understood as trans-state or global civil disobedience.
Luis Cabrera
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Introduction: Why, Once Again, Civil Disobedience?
The Cambridge Companion to Civil Disobedience, 2021Why another volume devoted to civil disobedience? Libraries are filled with thick tomes devoted to the topic. Henry David Thoreau, Mahatma Gandhi, and Dr.
W. Scheuerman
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New Media & Society, 2021
Prior scholarship has consistently shown that informed citizens tend to better understand government actions, expectations, and priorities, potentially mitigating radicalism such as partaking in illegal protest.
Homero Gil de Zúñiga, M. Goyanes
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Prior scholarship has consistently shown that informed citizens tend to better understand government actions, expectations, and priorities, potentially mitigating radicalism such as partaking in illegal protest.
Homero Gil de Zúñiga, M. Goyanes
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