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Civil Disobedience:

2018
According to common definitions, civil disobedience involves a public and nonviolent breach of law that is committed in order to change a law or policy, and in order to better society. More, those classed as civilly disobedient must be willing to accept punishment.
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Defining civil disobedience

Inquiry, 1978
Though all of the principal features of Rawls's definition of civil disobedience are in varying degrees unacceptable, one of these consists of the fertile but unargued suggestion that civil disobedience is a mode of address. The first half of the paper tests this by construing civil disobedience as a vehicle of non‐natural meaning (but not necessarily ...
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Civil Disobedience by Environmental Scientists: An Experimental Study of its Influence on the Impact and Credibility of Climate Change Research*

Environmental Communication
We experimentally tested whether information from environmental scientists regarding the consequences of global warming would be taken more seriously if they had engaged in civil disobedience, as opposed to non-disruptive forms of advocacy on behalf of ...
Ronald S. Friedman
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Pirate open access as electronic civil disobedience: Is it ethical to breach the paywalls of monetized academic publishing?

J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol., 2020
Open access has long been an ideal of academic publishing. Yet, contrary to initial expectations, cost of access to published scientific knowledge increased following the advent of the Internet and electronic processing.
J. James
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Can Political Institutions Commit Civil Disobedience?

The Review of Politics, 2020
A growing number of political activists and scholars defend the idea of state-based or political-institutional civil disobedience: they locate civil disobedience's agency in state rather than civil society–based actors.
W. Scheuerman
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“Tough Love”: The Political Theology of Civil Disobedience

Perspectives on Politics, 2020
Love is a key concept in the theory and history of civil disobedience yet it has been purposefully neglected in recent debates in political theory. Through an examination of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s paradoxical notion of “aggressive love,” I offer a ...
A. Livingston
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Hong Kong’s Civil Disobedience under China’s Authoritarianism

Social Science Research Network, 2020
Acts of civil disobedience have significantly impacted Hong Kong’s liberal constitutional order, existing as it does under China’s authoritarian governance.
Shucheng Wang
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“This is civil disobedience. I’ll continue.”: the racialization of school board meeting rules

Journal of Education Policy, 2020
Minoritized communities throughout the world engage in spaces of educational decision-making to advocate for equity-oriented policies. In this article, we explore such advocacy at the local level in school board meetings in the United States ...
Carrie Sampson, M. Bertrand
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Should health professionals participate in civil disobedience in response to the climate change health emergency?

The Lancet, 2019
Introduction Climate change is a global health emergency and a growing ethical crisis, and well planned climate action brings opportunities to improve health, equity, and human rights.
Hayley Bennett, A. Macmillan, Rhys Jones, A. Blaiklock, J. Mcmillan   +4 more
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A Right to Break the Law? On the Political Function and Moral Grounds of Civil Disobedience

Res Publica, 2023
J. Trovik
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