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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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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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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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The Future of Civil Resistance
2021This chapter discusses the long-term effects of civil resistance on different societies, noting whether successful civil resistance campaigns tend to leave societies better or worse off. It explores how civil resistance campaigns have changed over the past decade, particularly with the
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2014
Abstract Civil resistance is a form of contentious politics that eschews violent tactics and strategies in favor of nonviolent ones. Employing methods likes strikes, boycotts, and demonstrations, nonviolent activists have often defeated their adversaries, including highly repressive states.
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Abstract Civil resistance is a form of contentious politics that eschews violent tactics and strategies in favor of nonviolent ones. Employing methods likes strikes, boycotts, and demonstrations, nonviolent activists have often defeated their adversaries, including highly repressive states.
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Civil Resistance and Democratization
2020Abstract This chapter concludes the study of civil resistance transitions (CRTs), summarizing the evidence from the quantitative and qualitative studies. It speaks to the limitations of the study, including its inability to speak to the effects of failed civil resistance campaigns on democratization, dependence on specific ...
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Spontaneity and Civil Resistance
2020This chapter examines the contingent and endogenous causes that sparked the Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong. Spurred by two contingent events generating pre-emptive and massive mobilization, the movement was a spontaneous transformation of the long-planned Occupy Central campaign.
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The Ethics of (Un)Civil Resistance
Ethics & International Affairs, 2019AbstractCivil disobedience is a conscientious, unlawful, and broadly nonviolent form of protest, which most political philosophers and many non-philosophers are inclined to treat as potentially defensible in democratic societies. In recent years, philosophers have become more receptive to long-standing complaints from activists that civil disobedience ...
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the civilizing of resistance: straightedge tattooing
Deviant Behavior, 2003The social lifestyle "Straightedge" is a response to the hedonistic bodily indulgences (e.g., substance abuse, promiscuity) of many North Americans. Practitioners emphasize self-restraint and bodily purity as a "deviant" alternative to these practices.
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