Ripples of Hope : How Ordinary People Resist Repression Without Violence / Robert M. Press.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Protest and social movements ; 4 | Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2015]Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2019Copyright date: ©[2015]Description: 1 online resource (320 pages)Content type:
  • text
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  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789048525157
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Contents:
Introduction -- Resisting repression without violence -- Sierra Leone -- Students shake the pillars of power -- Radical activism : from seeking regime reform to regime change -- Women help restore democracy -- Mass noncooperation helps defeat a violent junta -- Liberia -- Nonviolent resistance in abeyance -- Peaceful resistance during a civil war -- Kenya -- Individual resistance against repression -- Establishing a culture of resistance -- Conclusion -- Appendix. Methodology -- Interviews -- Comparative levels of repression -- Chronologies -- Abbreviations and significant terms.
In: Books at JSTOR: Open Access JSTORSummary: Based on case studies in three African countries and new social movement theory, examines individual and group protests stood up to violence and oppression through mainly nonviolent means.
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Introduction -- Resisting repression without violence -- Sierra Leone -- Students shake the pillars of power -- Radical activism : from seeking regime reform to regime change -- Women help restore democracy -- Mass noncooperation helps defeat a violent junta -- Liberia -- Nonviolent resistance in abeyance -- Peaceful resistance during a civil war -- Kenya -- Individual resistance against repression -- Establishing a culture of resistance -- Conclusion -- Appendix. Methodology -- Interviews -- Comparative levels of repression -- Chronologies -- Abbreviations and significant terms.

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Based on case studies in three African countries and new social movement theory, examines individual and group protests stood up to violence and oppression through mainly nonviolent means.

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