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2021
This chapter considers civil resistance as a form of collective action that seeks to affect the political, social, or economic status quo without using violence or the threat of violence against people to do so.
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This chapter considers civil resistance as a form of collective action that seeks to affect the political, social, or economic status quo without using violence or the threat of violence against people to do so.
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Decolonizing Civil Resistance*
Mobilization: An International Quarterly, 2015Western scholars dominating the field generally suggest that civil resistance struggles involve public contention with unjust states to expand political rights and civil liberties. We argue that this perspective is an example of Eurocentric universalism, which has three blind spots: it tends to ignore struggles seeking to subvert rather than join the ...
Sean Chabot, Stellan Vinthagen
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2016
Civil resistance (also referred to as “nonviolent action,” “nonviolent struggle,” “nonviolent conflict,” and “people power,” among other terms) is a technique for waging conflict for political, economic, and/or social objectives without threats or use of physical violence.
Maciej Bartkowski +2 more
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Civil resistance (also referred to as “nonviolent action,” “nonviolent struggle,” “nonviolent conflict,” and “people power,” among other terms) is a technique for waging conflict for political, economic, and/or social objectives without threats or use of physical violence.
Maciej Bartkowski +2 more
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2023
Civil resistance is a way for people—often those who have no special status or privilege—to wield power without the threat or use of violence. It consists of a range of acts of protests (e.g., mass demonstrations); noncooperation (e.g., strikes, boycotts); intervention (e.g., blockades, mass demonstrations); and the development of new relationships ...
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Civil resistance is a way for people—often those who have no special status or privilege—to wield power without the threat or use of violence. It consists of a range of acts of protests (e.g., mass demonstrations); noncooperation (e.g., strikes, boycotts); intervention (e.g., blockades, mass demonstrations); and the development of new relationships ...
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Civil Resistance Against Jihadists
2022Abstract This chapter asks why civil resistance is—sometimes—successful. A set of regression analyses based on the dataset on anti-jihadist demonstrations during the Syrian Civil War shows that protests formulating non-maximalist demands were more likely to be successful, as well as events accompanied by other protests in the spatial ...
Isak Svensson +4 more
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Civil resistance against jihadists
2023Abstract In June 2014, the Islamic State seized control of Mosul, upending its institutions and unleashing sweeping changes to the lives of its citizens until their defeat in 2017. This chapter examines a specific form of civilian protective agency: civil resistance.
Isak Svensson, Alanna Smart
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