Author(s): Sonia Núñez
In: Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, Vol 19, No 1, 2018, pp. 111-126
This article addresses Femen’s media-based activism in Spain. It examines the lack of understanding of Femen’s activist methods among mainstream feminists and broader debates in the current Spanish political context.
Author(s): Sonja Najjar
In: Palestine-Israel Journal, Vol 17, No 3 & 4, 2011, pp. 59-66
Argues peacebuilding has to empower resilience and resistance to occupation.
Senior Capstone Project
Author(s): Sophie Deixer
2018, pp. 72
This project explores the discourse on abortion in the United States, examining the abortion clinic as a ‘space of interaction’ between the pro-choice and pro-life social movements. The author completed four months of participant observation in the fall of 2017 as a clinic escort at the Planned Parenthood clinic in Poughkeepsie, New York. She witnessed firsthand (and participated in) the interactions between the clinic escorts and the anti-abortion protestors who picketed the clinic each week. The study shows that, while the two sides of the debate adopt opposing ideologies, their ‘structure in this space’ does not actually look all that different.
Master Thesis
Author(s): Sophie Diehl
Northern Arizona University2019, pp. 62
This thesis scrutinises the conversation about violence against women on social media. The main research question is: ‘Does social media reproduce colonial ideologies such as racism and sexism?’ Indigenous women experience the highest rates of sexual violence in the United States: they are twice as likely to be as all other women. Social media is praised as a tool for activists and marginalized groups to raise awareness. The thesis explores whether this applies to Indigenous women and sexual violence, or whether their voices are generally overlooked.
Author(s): Sophie Richter-Devroe
In: Journal of International Women’s Studies, Vol 12, No 2 (special issue), 2011, pp. 32-46
Focuses particularly on women crossing Israeli-imposed borders to maintain their sense of autonomy and freedom, and argues that although these actions are ‘framed’ as resistance to occupation they also covertly challenge patriarchal controls..
Author(s): Souad R. Dajani
In: Tamar Mayer, Women and the Israeli Occupation: The Politics of Change, London, Routledge, 1994 , pp. 33-61
Author(s): Souad R. Dajani
Temple University Press, Philadelphia PA, 1995, pp. 238
See also Souad R. Dajani, Resistance in the occupied territories, In Stephen Zunes, Lester R. Kurtz, Sarah Beth Asher, Nonviolent Social Movements: A Geographical Perspective (A. 1.b. Strategic Theory, Dynamics, Methods and Movements) Oxford, Blackwell, 1999 , pp. 52-74 .
Author(s): Soulik Biswas
In: BBC News, 2018
Starts with the example of an unidentified mutilated body of a girl in Gujarat, a victim of prolonged gang rape and assault, and discusses the impact of the unnaturally high proportion of men to women (largely due to illegal sex selection abortions) on the level of rape. Since the widely publicised 2012 gang-rape and murder of a student in Delhi, statistic suggest a doubling of rapes of children, but Biswas cautions that better reporting of rapes by police and media, and a widening of the definition of rape, may partly account for the rise.
Author(s): South Asia Analysis Group
Usually brief comments on developments on the Maldives.
Author(s): Srdja Popovic
Payot, Paris, 2015, pp. 282
Drawing on his own experience with the Otpor movement in Serbia and an analysis of numerous nonviolent struggles, the author shows how it is possible to start a democratic nonviolent opposition to a dictatorship, to structure it and to guide it to victory.
Author(s): Sritama Chatterie
In: Edge Effects, 2021
This article sets the Indian farmers' movement within the context of climate justice, since farmers, who are a significant proportion of the population, are dependent on rainfall for their crops. Due to climate change farmers are increasingly affected by changing rainfall patterns and suffering from drought.
https://edgeeffects.net/trolley-times-india-farmers-protests/
Author(s): Sruti Bala
In: R. Steinweg, U. Laubenthal, Gewaltfrei Aktion - Erfahrungen und Analysen, Frankfurt am Main, Brandes & Aspel, 2011, pp. 119-125
Sruti Bala comes from the state of Tamil Nadu in southern India. In her dissertation on nonviolent protest she discusses some significant elements of nonviolent resistance such as 'action', 'play' and display'. She also tries to define certain consequences of nonviolent protest for political identity. Finally, these conclusions are related to the ideas of Gandhi and Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (the 'Frontier Gandhi').
Author(s): Stan Steiner
Harper Row, New York, 1968, pp. 220
On the development of the ‘Red Power’ movement rejecting white culture.
Author(s): Stanley Wolpert
Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York, 1993, pp. 378
The emphasis is on Bhutto’s political role and leadership and there is only very brief mention of popular agitation in chapter 7 ‘Winters of his discontent’ (1965-69), pp. 100-34.
Author(s): Stedile, Joao Pedro
In: New Left Review, No 15 (May/June), 2002, pp. 77-104
Account by participant in evolution of land seizures and of how MST eventually achieved legal possession.
Author(s): Stefan Brant
Thames and Hudson, London, 1955, pp. 202
Author(s): Stellan Vinthagen
Zed Books, London, 2105, pp. 400
Vinthagen develops a new general theory of nonviolent action which embraces Gandhian concepts and commitments, but relates these to modern sociological theory (for example, Haberms's conception of rationality) and reinterprets them within a more contemporary ethos. Four key dimensions explored are: dialogue facilitation; 'power breaking': 'utopian enactment' - Gandhi's constructive programme; and nonviolent training. Theoretical analysis is illustrated by examples drawn from a range of movements such as US Civil Rights, Movimento Sem Terra and radical protests against nuclear weapons.
Author(s): Stellan Vinthagen
In: Journal of Resistance Studies, Vol 6, No 1, 2020, pp. 136-155
Vinthagen provides a useful brief introduction to Scott's pioneering work on forms of small scale or 'hidden' resistance by subjugated classes. The interview then seeks clarification about the development of Scott's research and key elements in his theory.