Search Results for nonviolence

... with its re-envisioning of the revolutionary role violence and nonviolence can play in liberation. Tracing the intellectual and political process that turned decolonizing Kurds from the pursuit of a territorial nation-state towards the revolutionary and feminist transformation of colonized sites and lives...

...August H. Nimtz Abstract Nonviolent mass protests are often considered as having been mainly responsible for the two major legislative gains of the Civil Rights Movement half a century ago—the 1964 Civil Rights Act (CRA) and the 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA). In this article, I argue...

... and nonhuman others diminished by the progress-centric spirit of our time. Walter Benjamin Jacques Derrida Judith Butler violence nonviolence iterability Critical thought, whether in its Hegelian-Marxist or Nietzschean-postmodern idioms, is famously wary of describing the utopian content of its...

...Roberto Baldoli Abstract Nonviolence has risen in prominence in academia due to its power to overthrow dictators, fight corruption, and inspire change. However, certain issues surrounding the predominant definitions of nonviolence have yet to be fully explored. This paper opens this Pandora’s box...

...Kellan Anfinson Abstract Climate change complicates political violence while producing new forms and scales of it. This has led the climate movement to fail to come to terms with both the violence of climate change and nonviolence as a tactic of resistance. The article begins by counterposing...

... nonviolent. This is due, I argue, to a temporal separation between violence, which occurred during the process of Stalinist collectivization, and the subsequent dispossession of cultivators in the 1990s. Peasant dispossession could unfold peacefully after 1991 only because historical violence was embedded...

... similarity to ideas presented by the principal thinkers of the 20th-century “Gandhian tradition.” While 1989 may have many meanings, its moral emphasis on the compatibility of means and ends employed in a political struggle of nonviolent power against oppressive regimes is certainly one of the most...

... is reimagined as an anticapitalist politics of radical vegetarianism—one that refuses the animal death embedded within capitalism and holds open the possibility for the nonviolent and cruelty-free world that capitalism denies. [email protected] © 2025 Caucus for a Critical Political Science 2025...

...: Cambridge UP, 2011, 304 pp. Violence, Non- Violence, and the Palestinian National Movement provides suggestive answers to two popular questions about politics: First: when do participants in social movements choose violent tactics over nonviolent tactics? Second: Why is there no "Palestinian Gandhi...

... to secure. At the same time, choosing nonviolence sometimes means choosing the status quo's endemic violence, its ordinary inhumanity. This double-bind is "a genuine tragedy," according to the philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty, conditioning every modern revolution whether its protagonists know...

... New Political Science, Volume 31, Number 1, March 2009 Book Reviews Peter Gelderloos, How Nonviolence Protects the State, Cambridge: South End Press, 2007, 182 pp. In a passionate and emphatic way, this book argues that revolutionary change can only happen through a broad diversity of tactics...

.... The lesser one is that the "transformation" he calls for in the titles of his earlier books, by which he means fundamental change within the context of the existing constitutional order, is no longer possible. Rensenbrink now calls for a nonviolent revolution to overturn the existing order. Few details...

.... Speakers: Grace Paley, David Dellinger, Sister Rosalee Bertell, George W ald. Entertainment: Pete Seeger, Johnny Hammond and others. Followed by nonviolent civil disobedience occupation of the Shoreham plant (nonviolence training required). Organizer: SHAD Alliance (212) 744-0735; (516) 360-0045; (914) 682...

... for the keyword for Nonviolence/nonviolent, Leary highlights the connection to Martin Luther King and an often-misplaced assumption that by nonviolent, it means that a protest is or should be peaceful; and by peaceful, one means not disruptive, particularly to those in power. Otherwise, protest is defined...

... Movement Maintenance;' Waging Nonviolence, March 21,2015, available online at: <httpwagingnonviolence.org/feature/mindfulness-and-the-art-of-social-movement-maintenance @208 J. K. ROWE Following Davis, I am interested in how mind/body practices can support and strengthen Left social movements that directly...

... Plant. Legal rally near Shoreham plant. Speakers: Grace Paley, David Dellinger, Sister Rosalee Bertell, George W ald. Entertainment: Pete Seeger, Johnny Hammond and others. Followed by nonviolent civil disobedience occupation of the Shoreham plant (nonviolence training required). Organizer: SHAD...

... © 1999 Caucus for a New Political Science 1999 New Political Science, Volume 21, Number 2, 1999 293 Notes on Contributors Kathleen Neal Cleaver worked full time with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and afterwards became the Communications Secretary of the Black Panther...

... emerged through a disavowal of Solanas' world-making violence. In the conclusion, I raise a new set of questions prompted by reading Solanas' thought about the limitations of nonviolent feminist political tactics. An emphasis on nonviolence characterizes the two well-tread paths in contemporary feminist...

... tests (for example, nonviolence, publicity, acceptance of legal consequences) disobedients can sometimes expect criminal changes to be reduced or even dismissed. Of course, this has only occurred after decades of political struggle, and there is ample evidence that the achievement remains fragile...

..., by contrast, having witnessed firsthand the horrors of war as a soldier, found it harder to accept that violence could be put in the service of anarchist objectives. He helped to pioneer the pacifistic and nonviolent anarchism that grew increasingly prevalent during his lifetime, as anarchists began...