The Umbrella Movement: Civil Resistance and Contentious Space in Hong Kong

Author(s): Edmund W. Cheng, and Ma Ngok

Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, 2019, pp. 336

The editors, two professors of government in Hong Kong, argue that although the Occupy Central movement did not achieve immediate specific results it did alter the nature of Hong Kong politics through the emergence of a new movement and repertoire of protest, and also changed Hong Kong's relations with China and its perceived identity internationally. Scholarly contributors from different disciplines assess the origins of the movement, discuss new participants and forms of protest, and the Hong Kong government's response. The book includes perspectives from China, Taiwan and Macau.

See also: Edmund W. Cheng, Wai-Yin Chan, Explaining Spontaneous Occupation: Antecedents, Contingencies and Spaces in the Umbrella Movement, 2017 , pp. 222-239

La Guardia Indígena Nasa y el Arte de la Resistencia Pacifica

Author(s): Eduardo Andrés Sandoval Forero

Ediciones Colección Étnica: Diálogos Interculturales, Fundación Hemera2008, pp. 143

This book combines an anthropological with a political approach, describing the origin, development and activities of the Indigenous Guard of the Nasa People of Cauca (Colombia) with testimonies from some of their leaders.

Available online as PDF at:

http://www.imagobarcelona.org/txts/GUARDIA_INDIGENA_NASA.pdf

Does Engagement in Advocacy Hurt the Credibility of Scientists? Results from a Randomized National Survey Experiment

Author(s): John Kotcher, Teresa Mayers, Emilie Vraga, Neil Stenhouse, and Edward Maibach

In: Environmental Communication, Vol 11, No 3, 2017, pp. 415-429

Examines whether, as often assumed, scientists support for particular views and policies damages their scientific credibility. Their findings were that there was no significant indication that advocacy undermines scientific credibility.

Protest and Survive

Editor(s): Edward P. Thompson

Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation, London, 1980, pp. 33

This polemic, whose title was prompted by government civil defence advice ‘Protect and Survive’, provided considerable impetus to the rejuvenated nuclear disarmament movement of the 1980s, and the launch of the European Nuclear Disarmament (END) campaign in which Thompson played a leading role.

Parallel Report by the European Roma Rights Centre concerning the Czech Republic

Author(s): EERC

European Roma Rights Centre2016, pp. 8

This Report describes the situation regarding one of the most serious human rights abuses of women – the practice of coercive sterilisation among Romani women – and the legal, policy and other obstacles in reaching an effective remedy for the victims.

See also Van der Zee, Renate, ‘Roma women share stories of forced sterilisation’, Al Jazeera, 19 July 2016.

https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2016/07/roma-women-share-stories-forced-sterilisation-160701100731050.html

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