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Zia, Afiya, Faith And Feminism In Pakistan: Religious Agency Or Secular Autonomy, Brighton, Sussex Academic Press, 2018 , pp. 251

Analyses gender in the Muslim world, particularly in Pakistan. Zia chronicles secular feminism and its past and ongoing achievements, and explores the limits of faith-based politics in the country.

Zinn, Howard, The Bomb, San Francisco, CA, City Lights, 2010 , pp. 91

In this work, Zinn looks at the negative consequences of combat at the core moral and ethical issues citizens must face during times of war. He reflects on his youthful experience of combat in WWII, which led him to drop bombs on the French town of Royan. His later recognition of what the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki entailed prompted him to become one of the most committed and passionate advocates of non-violence in the USA.

Elnaiem, Mohammed, Armed, unarmed and non-violent: the Sudanese resistance in Sudan’s 2018-2019 revolutionary uprising, 43 2 , , pp. 5-26

This article argues that the movement that led to the imprisonment of Bashir can only be properly understood in terms of the grassroots struggle that defined it. Elnaiem also argues that it was a multi-layered struggle and discusses the composition of the broader resistance and the historical legacy it built upon, as well as the obstacles to further progress.

See also: Elnaiem, Mohammed, (2019) ‘Sudan’s uprising a ‘people revolution’, Green Left Weekly, Issue 1209, pp. 14-15.

See also: de Waal, Alex, ‘What’s Next for Sudan’s Revolution’, Foreign Affairs, 23 April 2019.

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/sudan/2019-04-23/whats-next-sudans-revolution

Analyses the Sudanese revolution with an emphasis on its non-violent forms of resistance.

Ganev, Venelin, Explaining Eastern Europe: "Soft Decisionism" in Bulgaria, 29 3 2018 , pp. 91-103

The author discusses 'patterns of democratic backsliding' in Eastern Europe, but concentrates primarily on 'constitutional retrogression' in Bulgaria. The article argues that the declining political influence of the middle class has undermined respect for the rule of law, so enabling 'oligarchic networks' to capture key parts of the judiciary, and undermining media independence. Ganev describes Borissov's personalistic form of governing, suggesting this can be conceptualised as 'soft decisionism'.

Scalmer, Sean, Gandhi in the West: the Mahatma and the Rise of Radical Protest, Cambridge MA, Cambridge University Press, 2011 , pp. 254

Primarily discusses the US civil rights and the British nuclear disarmament movements.

, Opposition in Eastern Europe, ed. Tokes, Rudolf, London, Macmillan, 1979 , pp. 306

Includes surveys of human rights and political change, worker resistance and potential for peasant opposition, and essays on Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Poland and Hungary from 1968-1978.

Thomas, Robert, Serbia Under Milosevic: Politics in the 1990s, London, Hurst, 1999 , pp. 443

See especially pp. 263-318 on formation of united opposition and mass protests from March 1996 to February 1997. Account goes up to 1998.

Braithwaite, John; Braithwaite, Valerie; Cookson, Michael; Dunn, Leah, Anomie and Violence: Non-truth and reconciliation in Indonesian peacebuilding, Canberra, Australia National University EPress, 2010 , pp. 501

Aceh, pp. 343-428, Papua, 49-146.

Dangl, Benjamin, The Price of Fire: Resource Wars and Social Movements in Bolivia, Oakland CA, AK Press, 2007 , pp. 240

Dangl is an editor of http://towardfreedom.com and http://upsidedownworld.org.

West, Johnny, Karama! Journeys through the Arab Spring, London, Heron Books, 2011 , pp. 387

West is a former Reuters correspondent in Egypt and now works for the UN in the Middle East. Lively personal account and analysis – a further subtitle on the cover is ‘Exhilarating encounters with those who sparked a revolution’. Focuses on Tunisia, Egypt and Libya. ‘Karama’ means honour and dignity, and West stresses its role in sparking and maintaining the revolts, quoting a Tunisian revolutionary from Sidi Bou Zid: ‘This is a revolution of honour’.

Sawyer, Suzana, Crude Chronicles: Indigenous Politics, Multinational Oil and Neoliberalism in Ecuador, Durham NC, Duke University Press, 2004 , pp. 294

Shows how neoliberal policies led to a crisis of accountability and representation that spurred one of 20th century Latin America’s strongest indigenous movements.

Lucian, Vesalon; Remus, Cretan, ”We are not the Wild West...”: Anti-Fracking Protests in Romania, 24 2 2015 pp. smaller than 0

Phoborisut, Penchan, Thai Youth's Struggle for Democracy may Fizzle but Political Contention Continues, 13 2 2021 , pp. 21-24

Almost a year after protests began, the author reports on the detention of political activists, but also the evolution of decentralized networked forms of communication to promote mobilization against the Thai establishment.

Stead, Jean, Never the Same Again: Women and the Miners’ Strike, London, Women's Press, 1987 , pp. 177

Pinna, Pietro, Pietro Pinna. L’uomo che per primo disse no, 2012

In this short interview, Pinna recounts his reasons for becoming a conscientious objector and the impact this decision had within the political Italian context. Additionally, he elucidates the elements of nonviolent actions.   

Available on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emniqr2trk4&t=609s 

Rigger, Shelley, Taiwan’s best-case democratization, 48 2 (spring) 2004 , pp. 285-292

Discusses factors promoting relatively smooth and successful transition, including democratic elements, such as local elections, even under KMT rule, and international pressure to democratize after the US and international recognition of the People’s Republic of China. Examines how ‘evolutionary, peaceful, and protracted’ transition also resulted in compromises that created problems for future. Latter part of article examines obstacles to a fully satisfactory democratic system.

Carroll, Rory, Comandante: Inside Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela, London, Canongate, 2013 , pp. 320

McNeish, James, Fire Under the Ashes: The Life of Danilo Dolci, London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1965 , pp. 256

Milburn, Caroline, Australia: Women at forefront of Jabiluka resistance, 13 March 1999 pp. smaller than 0

McCarthy, Mary, Vietnam, Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1968 , pp. 119

Influential account by US novelist of her visit to Vietnam, in which she argued that the US was fighting a war it could not win, and called for withdrawal.

Taylor, Verta; Whitaker, Nancy, Collective Identity in Social Movement Communities: Lesbian Feminist Mobilization, In Aldon Morris, Carol McClure Mueller, Frontiers in Social Movement Theory, New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1992 , pp. 400 1992 , pp. 104-129

Examines development of lesbian feminism in the US from the early 1970s and explores its collective identity and engagement in range of actions challenging status quo.

Harvey, Kyle, American Anti-Nuclear Activism 1975-1990: The Challenge of Peace, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014 , pp. 221

The Introduction examines the dynamics of anti-nuclear activism in the Second Cold War. There is a chapter on mainstream movement building, but the emphasis is on nonviolent approaches and the role of pacifists.

Munyati, Bob, African women's sexual and reproductive health and rights: The revised Maputo Plan of Action pushes for upscaled delivery, 32 1 2018 , pp. 36-45

Starting from the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) Programme of Action of 1994, the revised African Union (AU) Maputo Platform of Action (MPoA) 2016–2030 commits African leaders to guarantee women's universal access to sexual and reproductive health and rights. The MPoA 2016–2030 addresses women's sexual and reproductive health throughout their entire life to improve the poor sexual and reproductive health outcomes on the continent. The MPoA 2016–2030 also aligns itself with the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the AU Agenda 2063, both of which have made women's health a priority. This briefing reports on the findings of the policy review through a comparison of key themes/action strategies and an analysis of both weaknesses and gains.

Lok-Wai-Chung, Steve, Peace Movements in South Korea and their Impacts on the Politics of the Korean Peninsula, 10 2 2011 , pp. 253-280

This article covers the continuing and long-term protests against militarism, and for reconciliation with North Korea. It examines in particular protests against deployment of Korean troops overseas and against US military bases in Korea, and initiatives for reconciliation between the two Koreas, and assesses the movement's impact. 

Kazharski, Aliaksei, Belarus’ new political nation? 2020 anti-authoritarian protests as identity building, 29 1 2021 , pp. 69-79

Kazharski notes that the mass movement that arose to reject the rigged 2020 election had been interpreted as the creation of a new civil society or even a new political nation. His article focuses on the relevance of the symbolic politics of the movement in creating a new sense of identity.

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