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Ripples of hope : how ordinary people resist repression without violence / Robert M. Press.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Protest and social movements ; 4.Publisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (327 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9048525152
  • 9789048525157
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Ripples of hopeDDC classification:
  • 323 22
LOC classification:
  • JC571-628
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-315) and index.

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.

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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