Author(s): Antony Dapiran
Penguin, London, 2017, pp. 134
(Penguin Special)
Dapiran argues that Hong Kong has been 'a city shaped by civil disobedience', and he sets the 2014 movement in the historical context of protest since the 1960s. He also discusses the role of these popular protests in forging a distinctive Hong Kong identity, whilst indicating that the relationship between politics and cultural identity is complex.
Author(s): Antony Sguazzin
In: Time, 2020
Investigates the forced sterilization of South African women and highlights the Report of the South African Commission for Gender Equality prompted by the 2015 complaint by the non-profit Women’s Legal Center, which documented 48 cases of women who were allegedly forced or coerced into agreeing to the procedure while giving birth.
The Report of the Commission can be accessed here: http://www.cge.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Forced-Sterilisation-of-Women-Living-with-HIV-and-Aids-in-South-Africa.pdf
See also: Forced sterilisation in South Africa: They removed my uterus, BBC, 27 February 2020.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-51637751
https://time.com/5790217/south-africa-hospitals-hiv-women-sterilization/
Author(s): Anuja Gurele
Chennai Centre for China Studies, Chennai, 2019, pp. 24
Following the decision by Sweden to declare an official feminist foreign policy, this report investigates China’s prospects of including feminism – or adopting it fully – in its own foreign policy.
Editor(s): ANV (revue Alt Non-Violentes)
, No 119-1202001, pp. 154Originally published: 2001
This special double issue of the review Alternatives Non-Violentes presents numerous examples of nonviolent struggles and of leading figures in the field of nonviolence that have marked the 20th century.
Author(s): AP
In: Al Jazeera, 2020
Highlights Chinese authorities’ forced sterilisations practices of Uighurs women in an apparent campaign to curb the growth of ethnic minority populations in the western Xinjiang region.
See also: AFP, ‘China sterilising ethnic minority women in Xinjiang, report says’, The Guardian, 29 June 2020.
See also: ‘China forcing birth control on Uighurs to suppress population, report says, BBC, 29 June 2020.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-53220713
Author(s): AP
In: Arab News, 2018
This article describes the initiative a young Palestinian-American took to confront patriarchy and sexism in the West Bank and the lack of protection for women, despite legal reforms formally taking place in its territories. Yasmeen Mjalli is the inventor of T-shirts, hoodies and jackets with the slogan ‘I Am Not Your Habibti (darling)’, an expression typically used for catcalling women and young girls. Sexual harassment is a taboo subject in Palestine, which is still dominated by a culture of victim blaming, like many other parts of the Arab World. It is moreover not considered a priority amongst Palestinians in comparison to the fight against Israeli occupation. The article also briefly cites minor reforms that occurred in Egypt, the Gulf Arab Region and Saudi Arabia.
A Bibliography of People Power and Nonviolent Protest
With a foreword by Paul RogersEditor(s): April Carter, Howard Clark, and Michael Randle
Vol 1, Merlin Press, Talgarth Brecon, 2013, pp. 258https://www.civilresistance.info/a-guide-to-civil-resistance
Author(s): April Carter, and Janet Cherry
In: Howard Clark, People Power: Unarmed Resistance and Global Solidarity (A. 1.b. Strategic Theory, Dynamics, Methods and Movements), pp. 191-192
Author(s): April Carter
In: A. Paul Hare, Herbert H. Blumberg, Liberation without Violence: A Third Party Approach (A. 5. Nonviolent Intervention and Accompaniment), pp. 126-156
On a transnational expedition in 1959-60 attempting to prevent French nuclear tests in the Algerian Sahara.
Author(s): April Carter, and Michael Randle
Housmans, London, 1968, pp. 64
Account of four transnational teams going to Warsaw Pact capitals to protest against the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion.
Author(s): April Carter
Longman, London, 1992, pp. 283
Particular focus on European and North American movements against nuclear weapons in the 1950s-60s and 1980s and East European responses in the 1980s. But other nuclear disarmament protests, peace campaigns on other issues and nonviolent initiatives in other parts of the world are indicated more briefly.
Editor(s): April Carter, and Geoffrey Stokes
Polity, Cambridge, 2002, pp. 307
Author(s): April Carter
Polity, Cambridge, 2005, pp. 298
Examines a range of justifications for nonviolent direct action and civil disobedience in liberal parliamentary states, and shows the shifts in debate both within protest movements and in response to them. Also discusses unarmed resistance to corporate exploitation and neoliberal economic policies in a global context.
Author(s): April Carter
Routledge, London, 2012, pp. 207
Focuses on unarmed national movements of resistance to imperial, dictatorial or semi-authoritarian rule in relation to the theories and experience of guerrilla warfare, revolution, concepts of power and links between people power and electoral processes. The discussion, which draws on a range of literatures (including theories of nonviolent action, political thought and democratization) is then set in a global context.
Author(s): Kaveh Ehsani, and Arang Keshavarzian
In: Jacobin Magazine, 2018
The authors start from the 2017-18 protests, significant for their 'geographical scope and range of grievances', but emphasize that local unrest linked to a range of economic grievances has been frequent - especially since the end of the Iran-Iraq war in 1988 - and largely ignored by western media. They consider why the goal of social justice, central to 1979, has not been achieved and the change in policy after 1988 towards 'commercial priorities and top-down policy making'.
Author(s): Michael Kerr, and Are Knudsen
C. Hurst, London, 2012, pp. 256
Covers Lebanon since the mass movement in response to Hariri’s assassination, covering the role of Hizbollah and other political groupings.
Author(s): Arianne Gaetano
University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, Hawaii, 2015, pp. 232
The author’s research spans the period 1998 -2012 to chart the impact of the economic reforms on rural women drawn into urban areas, often employed in domestic service or in hotels and office cleaning. She notes how this migration of cheap and flexible labour from the countryside has underpinned high levels of urban consumption, and both helped to empower the women migrants and to perpetuate gendered forms of difference and inequality.
See also: Chang, Leslie T., Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China, New York, Penguin Random House, 2009, pp. 448 (pb).
Chang, who was a journalist for the Wall Street Journal inside China, revealed the lives of migrant women working on assembly lines in an industrial city, primarily by focusing on the experiences of two young women for three years. Her book which won awards in the USA, threw light on a previously unknown area, and illustrated the very mixed impact of the economic reforms and migration from the countryside on women’s opportunities.