Ripples of hope : how ordinary people resist repression without violence / Robert M. Press.
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TextSeries: Protest and social movements ; 4.Publisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2015]Copyright date: �2015Description: 1 online resource (327 pages)Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9789048525157
- 9048525152
- Government, Resistance to -- Africa -- Case studies
- Social movements -- Africa -- Case studies
- Protest movements -- Africa -- Case studies
- Nonviolence -- Africa -- Case studies
- Social interaction
- Social issues and processes
- Society and culture: general
- Society and social sciences Society and social sciences
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General
- Government, Resistance to
- Nonviolence
- Protest movements
- Social movements
- Africa
- Soziale Bewegung
- Protestbewegung
- Gewaltloser Widerstand
- Sierra Leone
- Liberia
- Kenia
- Africa
- Democracy
- Freedom
- Human rights
- Nonviolent resistance
- Opportunity
- Politics
- Social movements
- 323 22
- JC571-628
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.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-315) and index.
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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