Biblio

Argues that despite violence used against opposition and shattered hopes, the protests promoted increased political participation.

Using archival research, explores both how the Civil Rights Movement reacted to the Vietnam War, and also examines relations between black groups opposed to the War and the wider peace movement, and difficulties that arose.

Primarily with reference to Kenya, discusses interplay of human rights advocacy and democratic resistance in authoritarian state. Articles by Press on nonviolent movements in Kenya, Liberia and Sierra Leone can be downloaded from: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1319605.

Prominent Maoist contributors.

Describes explicit strategies developed in both Serbia and Ukraine to increase costs of repression and reduce the willingness of the security forces to resort to violence. By combining deterrence and persuasion the organisers were able to avert major repression in 2000 and 2004.

Includes chapters on Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Guatemala, India, Mexico, South Africa and Zimbabwe (the latter refrains from discussing the human rights issues of the government sponsored post 1996 land occupations). Not all chapters discuss social movements, but the book does cover gender and indigenous issues.

A critical assessment that notes the role of neoconservatives in endorsing export of democracy, the dangers of compromising the impartiality of human rights bodies, or intensifying internal ethnic and other conflicts, and the danger of ‘packaging, exporting, and spreading democratic revolution like a module across a broad array of settings, irrespective of local circumstances’.

Discusses US involvement and assesses the ‘Serbian factor’ in diffusing strategic ideas. See also: [view:biblio_individual_item_for_inline_reference=notlisted=18867].

Includes information on successful local campaigns: against Coca Cola bottling plant, closed in 2004, leading to national campaign “Coca-Cola-Pepsi Quit India Campaign’; resistance to water diversion in Uttar Pradesh; campaign in Delhi against raised tariffs and proposed privatization.

Selection of essays including assessments of the role of civil society and of the youth group Pora, an examination of western influence, and a concluding analysis of the ‘revolution’ in comparative perspective.

Based on fieldwork since 1994 on local instances of rights-based opposition. Chapter 4, ‘Tactical Escalation’, pp. 67-94, is especially rich in examples

Examines history and organization of WSF and argues need to move beyond acting as platform for diverse movements.

Also available online as Joan Shorenstein Center Working Paper no. 3, 2006.

Argues that the role of civil society bodies was important, but not vital. He suggests that key factors were popular attitudes to the ideal of Europe, the impact of the global economy, the appeal of western models and the implications of the soviet legacy. See also [view:biblio_individual_item_for_inline_reference=notlisted=18843].

References to the Sebastian Acevedo Movement also occur in [view:biblio_individual_item_for_inline_reference=notlisted=65096], who see it as ‘an expression both of psychological counter-strategies at the private and political level and of healing strategies at the societal level’ (p. 184) but do not describe its methodology. [view:biblio_individual_item_for_inline_reference=notlisted=65097], pp. 109-11, discusses its liturgical aspects in comparison with contemporary Critical Mass bicycle rides.

Explores impact of political, economic, cultural and religious conditions on environmental activism.

Author lived in squatter communities in Rio, Bombay, Nairobi (where squatting was linked to building new homes) and Istanbul.

Celebrated analysis by distinguished Polish journalist of later years of Shah’s regime and meditation on power, the role of fear and the nature of revolution.

Compares movements of objection to the French war in Algeria, the US War in Vietnam and Israel’s invasion of Lebanon.