PROF. Isabelle Sommier, PROF. Graeme Hayes, Ollitrault

Breaking Laws. Violence and Civil Disobedience in Protest

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book questions the complex relationship between social movements and violence, and shows how and why violence occurs or does not, and what different meanings it can take.

Produktdetails

• Protest and Social Movements
• Verlag: Amsterdam University Press
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 164mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 556g
• ISBN-13: 9789089649348
• ISBN-10: 9089649344
• Artikelnr.: 52004200

Autorenporträt

Isabelle Sommier is Full Professor of Political Sociology at Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne University, former director of the CRPS (Centre de recherches politiques de la Sorbonne) and currently Deputy Director of the CESSP (Centre européen de sociologie et de science politique, a fusion between CRPS and CSE Bourdieu institute). She has published on the theory of social movements, political violence, radicalization and terrorism. Graeme Hayes is Reader in Political Sociology at Aston University, UK. He is joint Editor of Environmental Politics and Consulting Editor of Social Movement Studies, and has published widely on non-violent action, environmental movements, and protest traditions. Sylvie Ollitrault is Senior researcher at CNRS-France, Rennes University. She has published on French environmental movements, NGO action and protest movement. She is involved in numerous academic networks (AFSPIPSA-ECPR) on Green movements.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements, List of Abbreviations, Organizations, and Parties
Introduction to Breaking Laws Part 1 Revolutionary Violence: Experiences of
Armed Struggle in France, Germany, Japan, Italy and the United States
Isabelle Sommier Translated by Marina Urquidi 1. Introduction to Part 1:
Revolutionary Violence in Context 2. A Subject Concealed Violence and
Social Movements: Fragmented Analytic Traditions Distinguishing Terrorism
and Revolutionary Violence The Silence Surrounding 1968 The '1968 years', a
cycle of protest 3. A Revolutionary Period? The International Context The
Student Revolts The United States Japan Germany France and Italy The
Generational Dimension of Revolt The Growth of the Extreme Left The United
States Japan Germany France Italy The Autonomous Movement 4. Radicalization
Processes Repression and Counter-Movements Germany Italy Japan The United
States Competition and Mutual Influences The United States Italy Japan
France Social Isolation Germany High-Risk Commitment and the Logics of
Clandestine Action 5. Strategies of Violence Propaganda of the Deed The
United States Japan France Resistance and Urban Guerrilla Warfare Germany
Italy The Insurrectionary Model: Taking the Attack to the Heart of the
State Germany Anti-Imperialism and the Transnationalization of Actions
Germany France Japan 6. The End of a Cycle Anti-Terrorist Policies The
United States Japan France Germany Italy A Farewell to Arms Germany Italy
France 7. Conclusion to Part 1 Part 2 Civil Disobedience Graeme Hayes and
Sylvie Ollitrault 8. Introduction to Part 2: Civil Disobedience in
Perspective 9. Definitions, Dynamics, Developments Theorising Civil
Disobedience Conscience and collective action, direct and indirect
disobedience 'Performative' Civil Disobedience Direct and indirect
disobedience reconsidered Conceptual Distinctions in Historical Overview
Quakerism Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) Satyagraha according to Gandhi
The US Civil Rights Movement (1955-65) Conclusion 10. Contemporary
Movements: Genealogies and Justifications Civil Disobedience in France The
cultural importance of manifestoes Conscientious objection and
anti-militarism From Larzac to Notre Dame des Landes Civil Disobedience and
Urgency Action and emergency Urgency and environmental disobedience Urgency
and undocumented migrants Disobedience and neo-liberal globalization Global
Justice Professional identities Conclusion 11. Repertoires of Civil
Disobedience The Constraints of Illegal Action Disobedience as activist
technique Civil Disobedience and Media Representation Greenpeace, reporters
of their own action Criminal Prosecution Trials as political arenas Civil
disobedience and prosecution: the case of the GANVA Networks of Commitment
Conclusion 12. Negotiating the Boundaries of Violence and Non-Violence
Property Destruction Ploughshares Seeds of Hope 'Pro-life' direct action
The Effects of Direct Action The INRA Colmar crop destruction Anti-abortion
clinic activism Staging Action Care and symbolism in action The Relational
Logic of Harms The Semantic Construction of the Civic Conclusion 13.
Conclusion to Part 2 Biographical notes Germany France Italy The United
States Japan, Bibliography Endnotes, Index.