Kurt Schock

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Schock, Kurt, Civil Resistance Today

Survey of historical origins of nonviolent resistance (Gandhi, US Civil Rights) and the numerous recent movements, including both resistance to political oppression and movements for economic and social justice (e.g. Occupy). Schock also analyses the causes of resistance and reasons for success or failure.

Schock, Kurt, Land Struggles in the Global South: Strategic Innovations in Brazil and India

In Gregory M. Maney, Rachel V. Kutz-Flamenbaum, Deana A. Rohlinger, Jeff Goodwin, Strategies for Social Change (A. 1.b. Strategic Theory, Dynamics, Methods and Movements)

Schock, Kurt, People Power and Alternative Politics

In Peter Barnell, Vicky Randall, Politics in the Developing World, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2008 , pp. 496

Pays special attention to Ekta Parishad (an Indian land rights organization), the Assembly of the Poor in Thailand and MST in Brazil.

Schock, Kurt, Unarmed Insurrections: People Power Movements in Nondemocracies

Seeks to address the lack of explicitly comparative analysis of how nonviolent methods promote political transformation. Examines success of the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa (1983-90), and pro-democracy movements in the Philippines (1983-86), Nepal (1990) and Thailand (1991-92), and explores failure of such as movements in China (1989) and Burma (1988). Lists major actions in each movement. Includes analysis and criticism of ‘consent’ theory of power.
Translations: Spanish