| Breaking Laws: Violence and Civil Disobedience in Protest Contributor(s): Sommier, Isabelle (Author), Hayes, Graeme (Author), Ollitrault, Isabelle (Author) |
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ISBN: 9089649344 ISBN-13: 9789089649348 Publisher: Amsterdam University Press OUR PRICE: $136.62 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Political Process - General - Social Science | Violence In Society - History | Social History |
| Series: Protest and Social Movements |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.2" W x 9.1" (1.15 lbs) 274 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Sommier, Isabelle: - Isabelle Sommier is professor of political sociology at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University and former director of the Centre de recherches politiques de la Sorbonne. |
