Author(s): Jack Shenker
Allen/Penguin, London, 2016, pp. 528
Account of the revolt against Mubarak by a Guardian journalist, based on first hand contact with activists, but also people in slums and factories and those living outside Cairo, and covering earlier development of the workers' activism and unionism and also village revolts against landowners. It includes wider-ranging historical analysis of Egypt's political and economic relations with the West.
Editor(s): Laurie Nathan, and Jacklyn Cock
St. Martins Press, New York, 1989, pp. 361
See also Laurie Nathan, Force of Arms, Force of Conscience: A Study of Militarisation, the Military and the Anti-Apartheid War Resisters’ Movement in South Africa, 1970-1988, Bradford, University of Bradford, 1990 .
Nathan was a leading activist in the End Conscription Campaign.
Author(s): Jacob Høigilt
In: Arab Studies Quarterly, Vol 35, No 4, 2013, pp. 343-359
Argues that Palestinian youth were constrained by the Israeli occupation, political oppression by both Fatah and Hamas, and 'political paralysis' resulting from the divisions between these two parties. But youth activism did challenge the role of these parties.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.13169/arabstudquar.35.4.0343
Author(s): Maria J. Stephan, and Jacob Mundy
In: Journal of Military and Strategic Studies, Vol 8, No 3, 2006, pp. 1-32
Author(s): Stephen Zunes, and Jacob Mundy
Syracuse University Press, Syracuse NJ, 2011, pp. 319
Benefits from firsthand research in Western Sahara. For links to other writing by Zunes and Mundy, see http://wsahara.stephenzunes.org.
Author(s): Jacqueline Adams
Routledge, New York, 2012, pp. 302
Combines extracts from interviews with photos to present varied phenomena of everyday resistance – ‘incidental’ (a by-product of being in a group), ‘reluctant’ (under group pressure) and ‘solidarity’ (helping others) – specifically of women who joined arpillera groups in Pinochet’s Chile. A web page with related resources for students and teachers is http://www.routledge.com/cw/adams-9780415998048.
Author(s): Jacques Levy
W.W. Norton, New York, 1975, pp. 546
Author(s): Jacques Sémelin
Praeger, Westport CT, 1993, pp. 198
Originally published: 1989 in French
Examines the main traits of Nazi occupation of Europe, the complexities of non-cooperation, and the role of social cohesion and public opinion in mounting effective opposition. Chapter on civilian resistance to genocide considers why the Final Solution was hampered, or even prevented, in certain countries.
Author(s): Jacques Sémelin
Belfond, Paris, 1997, pp. 347
This book provides accounts of the various peaceful revolutions in Eastern Europe against totalitarianism after 1948, culminating in 1989, with a specific emphasis on the role of media.
Author(s): Jacques Sémelin
Payot, Paris, 1998, pp. 268
Originally published: 1989
Historical essay presenting and analysing various examples of civil resistance to Nazi occupation across Europe.
Author(s): Jacques Sémelin
dipa Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 1995, pp. 302
Translation from French of authorative scholarly study of forms of civil resistance in German-occupied Europe in World War Two.
Author(s): Jacqui Katona
In: Geoff Evans, James Goodman, Nina Lansbury, Moving Mountains: Communities Confront Mining and Globalisation (A.4.a. Logging and Mining), pp. 195-206
Author(s): Jade Saab
Daraja Press2020, pp. 179
An early book on the second wave of popular rebellions in North Africa and the Middle East, with chapters on Algeria, Sudan, Lebanon, Iran and Iraq, bringing out similarities and differences between the movements.
Author(s): Jamala Rogers
Jamala Rogers, St. Louis, MO, 2015, pp. 135
This work is collection of articles and essays exploring the roots and development of the fight for racial justice and human rights in Ferguson, USA. Political activist Jamala Rogers narrates the history of systemic racism and police violence in St. Louis and of the development of the Black Lives Matter movement in the region.
Author(s): James Angel
Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung Buro, Brussels, 2016
Report on a workshop organized by Global Justice Now, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung Brussels Office and the Transnational Institute to develop the concept of 'energy democracy' agreed by the German climate justice movement at the 2012 Climate Camp in Lausitz. The aim is to ensure access for all to non-polluting energy, entailing an end to fossil fuel us e, democratizing the means of production and rethinking energy consumption. The workshop noted that since 2012 many communal, municipal, worker and movement initiatives were making the concept a reality: for example in Bristol in S.W. England, with a co-operatively owned solar generation project and a new publicly owned municipal supply company
See also: 'Just Transition and Energy Democracy: a civil service trade union perspective, PCS pamphlet, adopted at PCS conference May 2017. (It was also being promoted in translation by the Portuguese Climate Jobs campaign.)
Argues for public ownership and democratic control of energy supplies, and for the creation of a National Climate Service (proposed by the One Million Climate Jobs campaign, launched by the Campaign Against Climate Change Trade Union Group (CACCTU).
See also:
Greener Jobs Alliance: www.greenerjobsalliance.co.uk;
Trade Unions for Energy Democracy (TUED) a global trade union community for energy democracy coordinated in New York in cooperation with the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, New York office.
https://www.rosalux.eu/en/article/622.energy-democracy-in-uk-and-spain-from-ideas-to-practice.html
Author(s): James Baldwin
The Dial Press, New York, NY, 1992, pp. 120
Originally published: 1963
This now famous work contains two essays written on the occasion of the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation - "My Dungeon Shook. Letter to my Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of Emancipation," and "Down At The Cross. Letter from a Region of My Mind". It provides a three-point dissection on "The Negro Problem", an expression not owned by Baldwin that he refers to while discussing the roots of racial tensions of his time and how to overcome them. (To know more about the use of and debate on this expression by Baldwin himself, please see: http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,830326,00.html and https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/2934484.pdf).
In the first essay, Baldwin focuses on the central role of race in American history, and specifically addresses himself to his 14 year-old nephew who was confronted with anger and outrage. Through his nephew, Baldwin aims to address any Black young Afro-American.
In the second essay, Baldwin discusses relations between race and religion. He addresses Christianity with particular regard to its meaning for US society and to its use for the oppression of Black people.
A common thread to the whole book is Baldwin’s call to both Whites and Blacks to use compassion, communication and mutual understanding to transcend tensions and overcome the legacy of racism.
James Balwin was an iconic essayist, novelist, playwright and critic, who worked primarily about the Black American experience, racial tension, homosexuality and religion. He was active in the Civil Rights Movement, but spent his last years in the more congenial society of France.
Editor(s): Jan Parkis, and James Bowen
Cassell, London, 1997, pp. 214
Author(s): James Buchan
In: New Left Review, No 59 (Sept./Oct.), 2009, pp. 73-87
Mostly an analysis of broader Iranian history, but discusses June 2009 protests and their aftermath.
Author(s): Michael S. Chase, and James C. Mulvenon
RAND, Santa Monica CA, 2002, pp. 132
Author(s): James C. Scott
Yale University Press, New Haven, 1990, pp. 251
Much-cited analysis of forms of hidden and indirect resistance, as opposed to overt organised opposition. Develops at a more general level ideas explored in his Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance (1985). Scott discusses how everyday resistance might turn into open revolt: an aspect of his analysis that has been critically examined.