TY  - BOOK
AU  - Press,Robert M.
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Ripples of Hope : : How Ordinary People Resist Repression Without Violence / 
T2  - Protest and social movements
SN  - 9789048525157
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - Amsterdam
PB  - Amsterdam University Press
KW  - Gewaltloser Widerstand
KW  - gnd
KW  - Protestbewegung
KW  - Soziale Bewegung
KW  - Social movements
KW  - fast
KW  - Protest movements
KW  - Nonviolence
KW  - Government, Resistance to
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Political Freedom & Security
KW  - Human Rights
KW  - Civil Rights
KW  - Society and social sciences Society and social sciences
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Society and culture: general
KW  - Social issues and processes
KW  - Social interaction
KW  - Non-violence
KW  - Afrique
KW  - Études de cas
KW  - Contestation
KW  - Mouvements sociaux
KW  - Resistance au gouvernement
KW  - Africa
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Kenia
KW  - Liberia
KW  - Sierra Leone
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - 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; Open Access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/66323/
ER  -