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, Civilian Resistance as a National Defence, ed. Roberts, Adam, 1967 Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1969 , pp. 367

[Previously The Strategy of Civilian Defence]

Discusses campaigns of national unarmed resistance to military occupation (e.g. the Ruhr in 1923) and to both Nazi and Communist regimes. Basil Liddell Hart (pp. 228-46) compares guerrilla and nonviolent resistance to occupation. The 1969 edition analyses Czechoslovak resistance to Soviet occupation.

Thompson, Mark, To Shoot or Not to Shoot: Posttotalitarianism in China and Eastern Europe, 34 1 2001 , pp. 63-83

Seeks to explain why in 1989 there was a massacre in Beijing but not in Berlin or Prague. Similar discussion in Mark R. Thompson, Democratic Revolutions: Asia and Eastern Europe (A. 1.b. Strategic Theory, Dynamics, Methods and Movements) .

Suttner, Raymond, Legacies and Meanings of the United Democratic Front (UDF) Period for Contemporary South Africa, In Cheryl Hendricks, Lwazi Lushaba, From National Liberation to Democratic Renaissance in Southern Africa, Dakar, Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESIRA), 2006 , pp. 212 , pp. 59-81

Bello, Walden, Aquino’s elite populism: Initial reflections, 8 3 (July) 1986 , pp. 1020-1030

Observes that Cory Aquino’s movement seen as a third force by the US, though author rebuts US claims to have supported her before the fall of Marcos. Describes movement as ‘a genuine populist phenomenon’ with base in urban middle class, bringing onto the streets the lower middle class, unemployed workers and shanty town residents. Aquino avoided ties to the left, and did not need them to win the election, though – Bello claims – the left had paved the way for her ultimate success.

Shapiro, Yoram, Mexico: The Impact of the 1968 student protest on Echeverria’s reformism, 19 4 (November) 1977 , pp. 557-580

Orosco, José-Antonio, Cesar Chavez and the Common Sense of Nonviolence, Albuquerque, NM, University of New Mexico Press, 2008 , pp. 160

Read, Peter, Charles Perkins: A Biography, Melbourne VIC, Penguin, 2001 , pp. 392

Perkins has been one of the leading activists in New South Wales and his role in leading protests is described in some detail.

Taylor, Richard, Against the Bomb: The British Peace Movement 1958-1965, Oxford, Clarendon, 1988 , pp. 368

Well researched account of the first phase of the nuclear disarmament campaign in Britain, analysed and critiqued from a New Left/Marxist perspective.

, Gay Men and the Sexual History of the Political Left, ed. Hekma, Gert; Oosterhuis, Harry, New York, Harrington Press, 1995 , pp. 408

Includes chapters on the often difficult relationship between socialist, anarchist or social democratic movements and homosexuality in countries such as pre-First World War Netherlands, Civil-War Spain, the German Weimar Republic and post-1945 East Germany.

Garvaghy Residents, , Garvaghy: A Community Under Siege, Belfast, Beyond the Pale, 1999 , pp. 171

Garvaghy Road, a Catholic area in mainly Protestant Portadown, has been the scene of confrontations down the years during the annual Orange Order parade on the weekend before 12 July, following a service in Drumcree Church. The Orange Order claims the right to march along the road; the residents say that they face abuse and violence when this happens and that there are alternative routes the parade could take. Resistance to the event has included sit-downs, a women’s Peace and Justice Camp and the setting up of Radio Equality. Part 1 of the book is based mainly on the diaries of residents in July 1998 when the parade was banned and police and soldiers erected barricades and dug trenches to prevent the march from entering the road. Part 2 is an edited version of the Residents’ submission in 1996 to the Parades Commission.

, Rethinking Japanese Feminisms, ed. Bullock, Julia; Kano, Ayako; Welker, James, University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu, 2018 , pp. 288

This book draws on a wide range of academic disciplines to present the very diverse nature of feminist thought and activism in Japan since the early 20th century. It covers employment, education, literature and the arts, as well as feminist protests and initiatives. The book includes ideas and approaches adopted by a range of cultural and socio-political groups that have not bee labeled feminist, but which have promoted ideas and values close to feminism. It also examines important aspects of feminist history to challenge the mainstream interpretation of them.

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.

Maibach, Edward; Roser-Renounf, Connie; Atkinson, Lucy; Leiserowitz, Anthony, The Consumer as Climate Activist, 10 2016 , pp. 4759-4783

In the context of rapid growth in consumption of green products in the US, the authors use national survey data to test their hypothesis that people's beliefs about global warming as well as their beliefs about consumer activism, predict their approach to green consumerism.  

See also: Del Valle, Gaby, 'Can Consumer choices Ward Off the Worst Effects of Climate Change? An Expert Explains', Vox, 12 Oct. 2018,

Notes that the 2018 UN report on climate change warns less than two decades to limit global warming to 1.5% centigrade, and that in response proposals made for individual actions in response on issues such as meat eating and transport.  But the article also notes that the Climate Accountability Institute in its 2017 'Carbon Majors' report traced 70% of greenhouse gas emissions to 100 companies, which suggests individual actions 'futile'. The article notes that individuals can also reduce emissions per household through energy efficiency and altering houses to conserve energy. 

Tarrow, Sidney, Power in Movement: Social Movements and Contentious Politics, 1993 Cambridge and New York, Cambridge University Press, 1998 , pp. 271

, Resistance and Reform in Tibet, ed. Barnett, Robert; Akiner, Shirin, Bloomington IN, Indiana University Press, 1994 , pp. 314

Barnett also contributes an essay to Steve Lehman, Robert Barnett, Robert Coles, The Tibetans: A Struggle to Survive, New York, Powerhouse Cultural Entertainment Books, 2004 , pp. 125 , a primarily photographic record.

Tripp, Aili, Women and Politics in Uganda, Kampala and Wisconsin, James Currey, Fountain Publishers and the University of Wisconsin Press, 2000 , pp. 336

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.

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