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Social movements throughout the world have been central to history,
politics, society, and culture. Observing Protest from a Place
examines the impact of one such campaign, the global justice
movement, as seen from the southern hemisphere. Drawing upon a
collective survey from the 2011 World Social Forum in Dakar, the
essays explore a number of vital issues, including the
methodological problems of studying international activist
gatherings and how scholars can overcome those challenges. By
demonstrating the importance of the global justice movement and the
role of nongovernmental organizations for participants in the
southern hemisphere, this volume is an important addition to the
literature on community action.
Breaking Laws: Violence and Civil Disobedience in Protest questions
the complex relationship between social movements and violence
through two contrasted lenses; first through the short-lived
radical left wing post '68 revolutionary violence, and secondly in
the present diffusion of civil disobedience actions, often at the
border between non-violence and violence. This book shows how and
why violence occurs or does not, and what different meanings it can
take. The short-lived extreme left revolutionary groups that grew
out of May '68 and the opposition to the Vietnam War (such as the
German Red Army Faction, the Italian Red Brigades, and the Japanese
Red Army) are without any doubt on the violent side. More ambiguous
are the burgeoning contemporary forms of "civil" disobedience,
breaking the law with the aim of changing it. In theory, these
efforts are associated with non-violence and self-restraint. In
practice, the line is more difficult to trace, as much depends on
how political players define and frame non-violence and political
legitimacy.
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