Community Unions and the Revival of the American Labor Movement
Author(s): Janice Fine
In: Politics and Society, Vol 33, No 1, 2005, pp. 153-199
Campaigning for social security rights: Women in the informal economy and maternity benefits
Author(s): Janine Hicks
In: Agenda, Vol 33, No 2, 2019, pp. 32-41
This article focuses on how women in South Africa mobilised to press for a legislative response to a critical gender justice issue: access to maternity benefits for self-employed women, and women in the informal economy.
#MeToo in Italy's Mafia Culture
Author(s): Janna Brancolini
In: International Policy Digest, 2018
Assessment of why Italian media have hounded individual women who went public about sexual assault, and why the Italian MeToo hashtag, #quellavoltache, only attracted a few hundred mentions on social media. The author cites conclusion of a panel of journalists that a major reason is the mafia culture of silence and protecting one's own. The emphasis on personal ties (clientalism) in the workplace, and the ethos of cronyism encouraged under former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi (1990s-2000s) are also cited as reasons for Italy's misogyny.
Available online at:
https://intpolicydigest.org/2018/05/16/metoo-in-italy-s-mafia-culture/
It's Spring Again
Author(s): Jannis Grimm
In: International Politics and Society Journal, 2019
Grimm compares the rising in Sudan, Algeria, Iraq and Lebanon with 2011, whilst also indicating why these countries were not part of the 2011 wave of movements. He also suggests lessons learned from 2011 and considers what the European response should be.
Available online at:
https://www.ips-journal.eu/regions/middle-east/its-spring-again-3873/
East European Fault Lines: Dissent, Opposition and Social Activism
Author(s): Janusz Bugajski, and Maxine Pollack
Westview Press, Boulder CO, 1989, pp. 333
Persécutions Et Entraides Dans La France Occupée. Comment 75% Des Juifs Ont Echappé A La Mort
Author(s): Jaques Sémelin
Le Seuil/Les Arènes, Paris, 2013, pp. 912
Huge historiography which uncovers the role of civil servants in resisting the deportation of Jews during WWII occupation in France; based on several years of archival and interview-based research.
Quand Les Dictatures Se Fissuerent... Résistances Civiles A l’Est Et Au Sud
Editor(s): Jaques Sémelin
Ed. Desclee de Brouwer, coll. “Culture de paix”, Paris, 1995, pp. 260
Jacques Sémelin has brought together historians, sociologists and political scientists to analyse examples of civil resistance in countries of the East and South, mainly in the 1980s.
Freedom Over the Airwaves: From the Czech Coup to the Fall of the Berlin Wall
Author(s): Jaques Sémelin
International Center on Nonviolent Conflict, Washington, D.C., 2017, pp. 312 (pb)
Eminent French historian and theorist of nonviolent resistance explores the links between media of communication and nonviolent campaigns, focusing on key examples of resistance in Communist Eastern Europe from 1948-1989.
Face Au Totalitarisme, La Resistance Civile
Author(s): Jaques Sémelin
Ed. André Versaille2011, pp. 112
Presentation of fifteen years of research into the resources available for civil resistance in the heart of totalitarian systems of the 20th century. Sémelin also extends and develops his analyses of civil resistance in the context of European Communism.
La Non-violence Expliquée A Mes Filles
Author(s): Jaques Sémelin
Le Seuil, Paris, 2000, pp. 57
Short manual on civil education on nonviolence in simple terms, in the form of a dialogue with the author’s pre-teenage daughters. It has been translateed in English, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Catalan, Japanese, Hebrew and Indonesian
Social psychology of People Power II in the Philippines
Author(s): Maria Elizabeth Macpagal, and Jasmin Nario Galace
In: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, Vol 9, No 3, 2003, pp. 219-233
Includes assessment of nonviolence.
First the despot fell, then the spy chief...and Sudan dares to dream
Author(s): Jason Burke, and Zeinab Mohammed Salih
In: Observer, 2019, pp. 32-33
Covers the early days of the April 2019 revolution and the role of the Sudanese Professionals Association. Organizer of many of the protests, in negotiations with the military. Reprinted in Guardian Weekly, 19 April 2019, pp.10-12
The Role of Strategy in Advancing Nonviolent Resistance in West Papua
Author(s): Jason MacLeod
In: Luc Reychler, Julianne Funk Deckard, Kevin HR Villanueva, Building Sustainable Futures: Enacting Peace and Development, Bilbao, University of Deusto, 2009 , pp. 215-237
MacLeod has a chapter on dialogue in Peter King, Jim Elmslie, Camellia Webb-Gannon, Comprehending West Papua (E. II.2.d. West Papua: Civil mobilization supersedes guerrilla struggle) , above, and a historical chapter, ‘West Papua: Civil Resistance, Framing, and Identity, 1910s-2010s’, in Maciej J. Bartkowski, Recovering Nonviolent History: Civil Resistance in Liberation Struggles (A. 1.b. Strategic Theory, Dynamics, Methods and Movements) , Chapter 12, pp. 217-237. He also contributes on Papua for opendemocracy.net.
Umbrellas in Bloom: Hong Kong's Occupy Movement Uncovered
Author(s): Jason Y. Ng
Blacksmith Books, Hong Kong, 2016, pp. 392
The publishers claim it is the first detailed account in English of the movement. Ng, who is a lawyer and newspaper columnist, includes direct reporting from the protest, a timeline, a Who's Who of Hong Kong politics, maps and photographs. The book is reviewed positively by the independent Hong Kong Free Press.
The Lost Country: Mongolia Revealed
Author(s): Jasper Becker
Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1992, pp. 325
Journalist usually based in China gives his perspective on the movement and the broader context.
The Moral Politics of Argentine Crowds
Author(s): Javier Ayuero
In: Mobilization, Vol 9, No 3, 2004, pp. 311-326
Presents two episodes in the 1990s as ‘founding events’ in the later cycle of protest.
Forced sterilisation haunts Peruvian women decades on
Author(s): Javier Lizarzaburu
In: BBC, 2015
Looks back to key findings of Peru’s Ombudsman enquiry (1997 to 2002) into sterilization of Indigenous women. This official policy, according to data released by the Health Ministry in 2002, Involved tubal-ligation operations on 260.874 women between 1996 and 2000.
See also: van Eerten, Jurrian, ‘Peru's history of forced sterilisation overshadows vote’, AlJazeera, 8 April 2016.
See also Mcelroy, Wendy, ‘U.N. Complicit in Forced Sterilizations’, Independent Institute, 23 December 2002.
https://www.independent.org/news/article.asp?id=1417
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Civil Resistance in Palestine: The village of Battir in 1948
Author(s): Jawad Botmed
Coventry University, Coventry, 2006, pp. 47
MA dissertation by grandson of leader of village’s resistance to incorporation into Israel.
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Understanding Nigeria's #EndSARS movement
Author(s): Jaye Gaskia
In: rs21, 2020
This article examines how the historical and class character of Nigeria has fueled repression and exploitation, and contributed to the indiscriminate violence used by SARS and its lack of accountability. It also explains how the #EndSARS movement developed.
Available online at:
https://www.rs21.org.uk/2020/10/26/understanding-nigerias-endsars-movement/
An Indian Anti-Nuclear Movement?
Author(s): Jayita Sarkar
Institute for Defence Studies and Analysis2011
Discusses briefly the potential for a significant movement either against new nuclear power plants, especially in the light of the US 2008 deal to assist India's civilian nuclear energy programme, or against India's nuclear weapons policy. Sarkar notes that a number of lively local protest movements had sprung up against the construction of new nuclear reactors. There are also a number of groups, backed by 'prominent citizens', opposed to India's possession of nuclear weapons. But Sarkar is sceptical about the likelihood of an effective national campaign against either the energy programme, or the nuclear weapons policy, capable of influencing the government's commitment to both.
Available online at:
https://idsa.in/idsacomments/AnIndianAntiNuclearMovement_jsarkar_280711