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On consolidation: Nonviolent struggle as resource for democratic citizenship
Relaciones Internacionales, 2018 After the Colour Revolutions and the Arab Spring the research, linking nonviolent resistance (NVR) and democratisation increased drastically. Nevertheless, research focussing on the effect on democratic consolidation remains scarce.
Markus BAYER
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The Development Costs of Revolution: Evidence From Violent and Nonviolent Transitions
Kyklos, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using data from the Varieties of Democracy (V‐Dem) project and the NAVCO catalog (1950–2019), we estimate the developmental effects of successful revolutions through difference‐in‐differences models and event studies. Our findings differ from common expectations: neither violent nor nonviolent revolutions consistently deliver expected ...
Shishir Shakya +2 more
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Christian Humanism in the Black Atlantic: The Case of Olaudah Equiano
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores Olaudah Equiano as a pivotal figure in the emergence of a Christian humanism forged within the Black Atlantic. Building on the analyses of Sylvia Wynter and Paul Gilroy, it examines how Equiano's The Interesting Narrative contests the racial figuration of the human that underwrote the development of racial capitalism and ...
Luke Bretherton
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The Role of Mavka in the Articulation of Identity Under Conditions of War in Ukraine
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article aims to examine Mavka, a mythological forest spirit that has become a dynamic figure of resistance against occupation in the Russian‐Ukrainian war. Drawing on textual and visual materials from the Zla Mavka Telegram channel, the analysis conceptualizes Mavka as a symbolic framework that integrates three different identities ...
Miriam Billig, Nadia Iermakov
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Protests as World‐Making Projects
Noûs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT On one common way of distinguishing forms of protest, civil disobedience is a communicative act that aims to achieve its goals through moral persuasion, whereas direct action has as its goal to directly obstruct or deter a perceived injustice.
Lidal Dror, Sukaina Hirji
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Politics and Justice: Aristotle, Rawls, and the Case for Realism in Political Theory
Philosophy &Public Affairs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Aristotle's analysis of stasis in Book V of the Politics offers a striking example of “distinctively political thought,” as advocated by Bernard Williams's political realism, and in contrast to the moralist approach exemplified by John Rawls. Aristotle identifies disputes over justice, driven by partial and conflicting conceptions of equality,
Paul Sagar
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Evidentiary Interpretation, Discursive Injustice, and Rap on Trial
Philosophy &Public Affairs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The submission of rap lyrics as inculpatory evidence (Rap on Trial) is an active prosecution tactic deployed in United States criminal trials. In this paper, I argue that interpretive ambiguity in rap lyrics is exploited in Rap on Trial cases, constituting a novel form of discursive injustice: extractive discursive injustice.
K. M. Crandall
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What Now? Military Peace Activism in the Wake of the Vietnam War
Peace &Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article defines military peace activism as peace activism related to military manpower policy and military personnel, including active, reserve, potential, and former servicemembers. It argues that when the US war in Vietnam and the draft that supported it ended, antiwar activists who worked with GIs had to reframe their work, as the ...
Amy J. Rutenberg
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Discover Global SocietyWhat drives a nonviolent movement to adopt violent strategies? The paper examines this question through a Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) of the Saffron Revolution in Myanmar and the movement led by Hefazat-e-Islam (HI) in Bangladesh.
Md. Al-Amin +2 more
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Cogent Social SciencesGandhi remains a major reference point in scholarship on nonviolent resistance, but the relevance of his political thought to Palestine is often asserted more readily than it is examined.
Ihsan Abualrob, Ayman Yousef
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