ABSTRACT

This volume probes the intersections between the fields of social movements and nonviolent resistance. Bringing together a range of studies focusing on protest movements around the world, it explores the overlaps and divergences between the two research concentrations, considering the dimensions of nonviolent strategies in repressive states, the means of studying them, and conditions of success of nonviolent resistance in differing state systems. In setting a new research agenda, it will appeal to scholars in sociology and political science who study social movements and nonviolent protest.

part I|123 pages

Nonviolence and social movements

chapter 2|27 pages

Performative power in nonviolent tactical adaptation to violence

Evidence from US civil rights movement campaigns

chapter 3|25 pages

Asserting land rights

Rural land struggles in India and Brazil

chapter 4|19 pages

Defections or disobedience?

Assessing the consequences of security force collaboration or disengagement in nonviolent movements

chapter 5|27 pages

Protest waves and authoritarian regimes

Repression and protest outcomes

chapter 6|23 pages

Bound by the red lines?

The perils and promises of moderate mobilization under authoritarianism

part II|87 pages

Nonviolence and social movements

chapter 9|19 pages

The missing unarmed revolution

Why civil resistance did not work in Bahrain

chapter 10|21 pages

Nonviolent civil resistance

Beyond violence and nonviolence in the age of street rebellion