Stellan Vinthagen

Year of Publication: 2105

Vinthagen, Stellan, A Theory of Nonviolent Action: How Civil Resistance Works [1], London, Zed Books, 2105, pp. 400

Vinthagen develops a new general theory of nonviolent action which embraces Gandhian concepts and commitments, but relates these to modern sociological theory (for example, Haberms's conception of rationality) and reinterprets them within a more contemporary ethos. Four key dimensions explored are: dialogue facilitation; 'power breaking': 'utopian enactment' - Gandhi's constructive programme; and nonviolent training. Theoretical analysis is illustrated by examples drawn from a range of movements such as US Civil Rights, Movimento Sem Terra and radical protests against nuclear weapons.

Year of Publication: 2012

Vinthagen, Stellan ; Kennick, Justin ; Mason, Kelvin, Tackling Trident [2], Sparsnas Sweden, Irene Publishing, 2012, pp. 362

On two ‘Academic Conference Blockades’ at Faslane Trident missile base in Scotland in January and June 2007.

Year of Publication: 2009

Vinthagen, Stellan, Global Movements and Local Struggles: The Case of World Social Forum [3], In Clark, People Power: Unarmed Resistance and Global Solidarity [4] (A. 1.b. Strategic Theory, Dynamics, Methods and Movements [5]), London, Pluto Press, pp. 184-190

Year of Publication: 2007

Chabot, Sean ; Vinthagen, Stellan, Rethinking Nonviolent Action and Contentious Politics: Political Cultures of Nonviolent Opposition in the Indian Independence Movement and Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement [6], Research in Social Movements, Conflict and Change, Vol. 27, 2007, pp. 91-121

Year of Publication: 2006

Vinthagen, Stellan, Transnational Movement Strategies [7], 2006

This paper tries to understand the existing and possible strategies of transnational movements working for social change, especially those striving for an unarmed or nonviolent change of direct and structural violence, i.e. war and the social structures upholding authoritarian regimes, sexist, racist, capitalist and militarised societies.

Links
[1] https://civilresistance.info/biblio-item/2105/theory-nonviolent-action-how-civil-resistance-works
[2] https://civilresistance.info/biblio-item/2012/tackling-trident
[3] https://civilresistance.info/biblio-item/2009/global-movements-and-local-struggles-case-world-social-forum
[4] https://civilresistance.info/biblio-item/2009/people-power-unarmed-resistance-and-global-solidarity
[5] https://civilresistance.info/section/introduction-nonviolent-action/1-theory-methods-and-examples/1b-strategic-theory-dynamics
[6] https://civilresistance.info/biblio-item/2007/rethinking-nonviolent-action-and-contentious-politics-political-cultures-nonviolent
[7] https://civilresistance.info/biblio-item/2006/transnational-movement-strategies