Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

This small book is based on the papers and discussions presented at the International Colloquium held on April 11, 2008 on the Nanterre campus of The University of Paris, where scholars and activists gathered to discuss "La guerre, la résistance, et le contre-résistance dans l'histoire contemporaine". In this short anthology, we introduce this subject by giving an historical perspective of instances of resistance and counter-resistance to wars and social struggles involving the United States ...

Government, Resistance to

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Government, Resistance to --- History --- Spain

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

"This wide-ranging anthology uncovers the hidden histories of community armed self-defense, exploring how it has been used by marginalized and oppressed communities as well as anarchists and radicals within significant social movements of the 20th and 21st centuries. Far from a call to arms, or a "how-to" manual for warfare, this volume offers histories, reflections, and questions about the role of firearms in small collective defense efforts and its place in larger efforts toward the creation of autonomy and liberation. Featuring diverse perspectives from movements across the globe, Setting Sights includes vivid histories and personal reflections from both researchers and those who participated in community armed self-defense. Contributors include Dennis Banks, Kathleen Cleaver, Mable Williams, Subcomandante Marcos, Kristian Williams, George Ciccariello-Maher, Ashanti Alston, and many more."--Amazon.com. "Decades ago, Malcolm X eloquently stated that communities have the legitimate right to defend themselves "by any means necessary" with any tool or tactic, including guns. This wide-ranging anthology uncovers the hidden histories and ideas of community armed self-defense, exploring how it has been used by marginalized and oppressed communities as well as anarchists and radicals within significant social movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Far from a call to arms, or a "how-to" manual for warfare, this volume offers histories, reflections, and questions about the role of firearms in small collective defense efforts and its place in larger efforts toward the creation of autonomy and liberation. Featuring diverse perspectives from movements across the globe, Setting Sights includes vivid histories and personal reflections from both researchers and those who participated in community armed self-defense. Contributors include Dennis Banks, Kathleen Cleaver, Mable Williams, Subcomandante Marcos, Kristian Williams, George Ciccariello-Maher, Ashanti Alston, and many more." -- Publisher's description

Government, Resistance to. --- Firearms. --- Self-defense.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

The modern era has generated a bewildering profusion of popular protest including widespread social movements and sporadic revolutionary upheaval. Despite the seemingly chaotic character of such collective action, social scientists have increasingly noted the remarkable regularities exhibited by even the most tumultuous social change. In this volume, sociologists, political scientists, and historians come together to assess the complementary concepts of repertoires and cycles as tools for illuminating the consistent patterns that emerge from the apparent chaos.
The significance of repertoires--recurrent forms or tactics of social protest-- is explored in an essay on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain by the originator of the concept, Charles Tilly. Sidney Tarrow, whose work has most directly linked the concept of repertoires with that of cycles--the recurrent peaks and troughs in the historical incidence of collective action--contributes an essay that focuses on twentieth-century Italy. Other essays investigate the rhythms and logic of social change in contexts as diverse as sixteenth- through nineteenth-century Japan, nineteeth-century Europe, and twentieth-century America. Through inquiries into the consequences of violent repression for social mobilization, the struggle to control the linguistic terms of social conflict, the unacknowledged antecedents of contemporary movements, and the importance of "movement families," this volume demonstrates the usefulness of these two concepts and defines the relationship between them.
Collected from past issues of "Social Science History," with a new introduction and two new essays, "Repertoires and Cycles of Collective Action "will reward an interdisciplinary audience of readers with the extraordinary vitality that emerges from this rich blend of historical perspectives.

History --- Community organization --- Protest movements --- Revolutions --- Government, Resistance to

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Government, Resistance to --- Insurgency --- Peasant uprisings --- Revolutions --- History