Mubarak’s Overthrow

Author(s): Hazem Kandil

In: New Left Review, No 68 (March/April), 2011, pp. 17-56

Interview in which Kandil analyses the revolt brewing under the surface and the role of six distinct groups, the nature of the Mubarak regime, the events of the first month of revolution and prospects for the future.

Soldiers, Spies and Statesmen: Egypt’s Road to Revolt

Author(s): Hazem Kandil

Verso, London, 2012, pp. 256

Analysis by political sociologist depicting the revolt as a power struggle between the military, the security services and the political leadership in the context of the previous six decades. Challenges the widespread assumption that after the popular rebellion the military continued to control the political developments.

China’s listing social structure

Author(s): He Qinglian

In: New York Review of Books, No 5 (September/October), 2000, pp. 69-100

A critical assessment of Chinese society by a Chinese social scientist, widely discussed within China, indicating the context for unrest. Inset is an article describing a pensioner campaign led by a former Party official (pp. 82-83).

Reservations are for Indians

2nd edition with new preface

Author(s): Heather Robertson

James Lewis and Samuel, Toronto, 1991, pp. 303

Originally published: 1970

Account of life on four reservations, the impact of government and emergence of new more radical leaders. Includes material on a protest march and ‘drink-in’ in 1960s.

A look at the #MeToo movement’s impact in the US, Brazil and the UK

Author(s): Michele P. Taylor, Tahl Tyson, Renata Neeser, and Heather Vigil

In: TLNT, 2108

This article compares the positive impacts of the #MeToo movement in two different jurisdictions in the United States of America - namely California and Texas - in Brazil, and in the United Kingdom. It highlights the reforms promoting the prosecution and prevention of sexual harassment in the workplace.

Available online at:

https://www.tlnt.com/a-look-at-the-metoo-movements-impact-in-the-us-brazil-and-the-uk/

Social Movements as Women’s Political Empowerment: The Case for Measurement

Author(s): Kathleen Fallon, and Heidi Rademacher

In: Measuring Women’s Political Empowerment across the Globe, pp. 97-116

This chapter explores how to measure quantitatively women’s social movements. Drawing on previous qualitative and quantitative studies of politically influential social movements addressing women’s rights across developing countries, the authors examine what aspects of women’s collective action can create a meaningful variable. The chapter concludes with a call for new methods to measure women’s movements, to pinpoint the circumstances that lead to mobilization, the intricacies of women’s movements, and the ways women’s collective action leads to women’s political empowerment and gender equality, both in the developing world and a global context.

Widerstand und ziviler Ungehorsam im demokratischen Rechtsstaat

Author(s): Heinz Kleger

In: Enzemann , Birgit, ed., Handbuch Politische Gewalt., pp. 163-203

The author stresses that a democratic state based on the rule of law provides a rigorous normative order, which guarantees basic civil and human rights for each citizen, whilst also allowing for democratic government. Therefore, resistance and civil disobedience are always caught in a conflict between social (and political) rules and individual rights.

Protestantismus und die Tradition des zivilen Ungehorsams

Author(s): Heinz Kleger

In: Klein, A und O. Zimmerman, (eds.) Impulse der Reformation: Buergergesellschaft und Demokratie, pp. 51-58

Since the protests against the use of nuclear energy in the 1980s, civil disobedience is part of German society. The author claims that this kind of resistance shouldn't be confused with the right to resist. Civil disobedience has certain stringent criteria that have to be fulfilled, and should moreover be an exception in a democracy founded on the rule of law and the principle of representation.

Spiral of Violence

Author(s): Helder Camara

Sheed and Ward, London, 1971, pp. 83

Statement of case for nonviolent, as opposed to violent, resistance by Archbishop known for his support for the poor and opposition to racism and militarism.

Free Greek Voice

Editor(s): Helen Vlachos

Doric Publications, London, 1971, pp. 168

Vlachos, who refused to publish her right wing paper Kathimerini after the coup, was arrested for publishing an article abroad critical of the regime. She also wrote an account of her experience in Helen Vlachos, House Arrest, London, Andre Deutsch, 1970 , pp. 158 .

States and Anti-Nuclear Movements

Editor(s): Helena Flam

Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 1994, pp. 427

Deals with the anti-nuclear power movements and government responses to them and their demands in eight West European states – Austria, Britain, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and West Germany.

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