The Revolution Continues: Sudanese Women’s Activism

Author(s): Sarah Nugdalla

In: Okech A. (eds) Gender, Protests and Political Change in Africa. Gender, Development and Social Change, pp. 107-130

This chapter examines how aspects of the Bashir regime's policy of Islamisation, control over women's bodies and concepts of  morality and respectability, prompted Sudanese women's activism after 1989.  It also explores how the political context has influenced space for activism, and the changing discourse about women's activism arising from the #FallThatIsAll movement.

See also: Gorani, Amel, ‘Sudanese women demand justice’, OpenDemocracy, 20 May 2011.

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/sudanese-women-demand-justice/

Amel Gorani reports the systematic use of sexual violence, torture, cruel and degrading treatment as one of the major security threats and tools of repression targeting women and communities all over Sudan.

See also: Bakhit, Rawa Gafar, ‘Women in #SudanRevolts: heritage of civil resistance’, OpenDemocracy, 19 July 2012

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/women-in-sudanrevolts-heritage-of-civil-resistance/

Explores how women have been active in the Sudanese civil resistance and non-violent protests

Women's movements' engagement in the SDGs: lessons learned from the Women's Major Group

Author(s): Sascha Gabizon

In: Gender & Development, Vol 24, No 1, 2016, pp. 99-110

The purpose of the Women’s Major Group is to make sure women’s NGOs have a voice at the UN in framing policy on sustainable development and environmental issues. This articles focuses on the Group’s role in negotiations for the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and assesses the effectiveness of civil society involvement.

Against the Grain

Author(s): SBS Collective

Southall Black Sisters, London, 1990

In-depth analysis of the campaigns fought by Southall Black Sisters and the issues that they faced in the first ten years of our existence.

Radical Pacifism: The War Resisters League and Gandhian Nonviolence in America, 1915-1963

Author(s): Scott H. Bennett

Syracuse University Press, Syracuse NY, 2003, pp. 312

Includes CO revolts in camps and prisons in World War Two against racial segregation, and role of League members in helping to found the Congress of Racial Equality and its nonviolent direct action strategy. Also covers relations of secular and radical WRL with other pacifist bodies, such as Christian Fellowship of Reconciliation.

What really happened in Kyrgyzstan?

Author(s): Scott Radnitz

In: Journal of Democracy, Vol 17, No April, 2006, pp. 132-146

Stresses that the ‘Tulip Revolution’ was very different from other ‘colour revolutions’ and notes the importance of localism. See also: Scott Radnitz, A Horse of a Different Color: Revolution and Regression’ in Bunce, In Valerie J. Bunce, Michael McFaul, Kathryn Stoner-Weiss, Democracy and Authoritarianism in the Postcommunist World (D. II.1. Comparative Assessments) New York, Cambridge University Press, 2009 , pp. 300-324 , arguing that the events of 2005 better seen as a ‘coup’.

Creating a Textual Public Space: Slogans and Texts from Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement

Author(s): Sebastian Veg

In: The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol 73, No 3, 2016, pp. 673-702

This study, based on over 1000 slogans and other texts and visual material, assesses the 'community with fluid borders' created by the movement, and the different 'cultural repertoires' including traditional Chinese philosophy and pop music. The author argues that the occupation also tried to develop a form of 'discursive democracy', and was an attempt to create a new civic culture among the younger generation.

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