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« Être patriote, en ce moment charnière, demande du courage et de l'imagination. Notre démocratie est en haillons, nos procédures de vote sont cassées, notre langage abîmé, notre discours politique réduit à des cris de haine. On ne pourra même pas dire, comme Sartre jadis, “Jamais nous n'avons été aussi libres que sous l'Occupation”. Au contraire, jamais il n'a paru si terriblement difficile de résister. Nous, Américains, ne pouvons plus nous cacher derrière l'illusion d'être une démocratie par essence ou par prédestination. La démocratie, cela se mérite. » Alice Kaplan
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What are our responsibilities in the face of injustice? How far should we go to fight it? Many would argue that as long as a state is nearly just, citizens have a moral duty to obey the law. Proponents of civil disobedience generally hold that, given this moral duty, a person needs a solid justification to break the law. But activists from Henry David Thoreau and Mohandas Gandhi to the Movement for Black Lives have long recognized that there are times when, rather than having a duty to obey the law, we have a duty to disobey it. Taking seriously the history of this activism, A Duty to Resist wrestles with the problem of political obligation in real world societies that harbor injustice. Candice Delmas argues that the duty of justice, the principle of fairness, the Samaritan duty, and political association impose responsibility to resist under conditions of injustice. We must expand political obligation to include a duty to resist unjust laws and social conditions even in legitimate states. For Delmas, this duty to resist demands principled disobedience, and such disobedience need not always be civil. At times, covert, violent, evasive, or offensive acts of lawbreaking can be justified, even required. Delmas defends the viability and necessity of illegal assistance to undocumented migrants, leaks of classified information, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, sabotage, armed self-defense, guerrilla art, and other modes of resistance. There are limits: principle alone does not justify law breaking. But uncivil disobedience can sometimes be not only permissible but required in the effort to resist injustice.
Civil disobedience --- Direct action --- Government, Resistance to
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Le pléonectique provient d’un néologisme qui signifie : avoir-plus. L’enjeu de ce livre-somme de Mehdi Belhaj Kacem est d’identifier le principe ontologique à partir duquel interroger les affres dans lequel se débat notre monde. Déchiffrant l’univers à partir de la notion, empruntée à Reiner Schürmann, d’appropriation-expropriation, le livre, sous forme d’abécédaire, déploie un système qui démontre comme l’événement vital consiste en une intensification du régime « appropriationniste » qui existe au niveau des plus fines particules élémentaires ; et que l’événement humain, à son tour, consiste en une intensification monstrueuse du régime « appropriationniste » qui définit tout ce qui est.Définissant l’essence de l’homme par ce qu’il appelle la « virtuosité techno-mimétique », l’auteur dresse une fresque phénoménologique, qui non seulement éclaire d’un jour entièrement neuf les faits de la science et de la technologie, de l’art et de l’imitation, de la politique et du droit, de l’amour et de la sexualité, mais fait voir l’étroite solidarité qui existe entre ces phénomènes.
Ontology. --- Phenomenology. --- Anarchism. --- Government, Resistance to. --- Libertarianism. --- Philosophical anthropology.
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In April 2018, Armenia experienced a remarkable popular uprising leading to the resignation of Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan and his replacement by protest leader Nikol Pashinyan. Evoking Czechoslovakia's similarly peaceful overthrow of communism 30 years previously, the uprising came to be known as Armenia's 'Velvet Revolution': a broad-based movement calling for clean government, democracy and economic reform.This volume examines how a popular protest movement, showcasing civil disobedience as a mass strategy for the first time in the post-Soviet space, overcame these unpromising circumstances. Situating the events in Armenia in their national, regional and global contexts, different contributions evaluate the causes driving Armenia's unexpected democratic turn, the reasons for regime vulnerability and the factors mediating a non-violent outcome. Drawing on comparative perspectives with democratic transitions across the world, this book will be essential reading for those interested in the regime dynamics, social movements and contested politics of contemporary Eurasia, as well as policy-makers and practitioners in the fields of democracy assistance and human rights in an increasingly multipolar world.
Protest movements --- Government, Resistance to --- Armenia (Republic) --- Politics and government
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La 4e de couv. indique : "Cette étude passionnante et historique, première d'ampleur sur le sujet, nous plonge au coeur des luttes de libération et retrace l'histoire d'une victoire populaire. En décembre 1960, à la fin de la guerre d'Algérie des manifestations gigantesques surgissent depuis les quartiers les plus ségrégués des villes. Durant plusieurs semaines des cortèges organisés d'ouvriers en guenilles, de paysans déracinés, de maquisards blessés, de prisonniers à peine libérés, dont certains composés de femmes et d'enfants s'affrontent aux forces de l'ordre et repoussent les frontières de l'ordre colonial. La réponse répressive est impitoyable et fait de cet épisode un massacre de la République française encore enfoui."
Demonstrations --- Government, Resistance to --- Counterinsurgency --- History --- History --- History
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Our world today is experimenting a time of great power but also of tremendous resistances. Everywhere, people are brought together by similar burdens and frustration and creatively think about how to counter the forms of domination they are ascribed to. In academia as well there is an awakening among scholars to further investigate these multiple forms of resistance and equip the field with useful and empowering knowledge. This book aims at presenting some of these findings and reflecting upon the implications, social relevance, and ethical challenges of the growing field of Resistance Studies.
Government, Resistance to --- Civil resistance --- Non-resistance to government --- Resistance to government --- Political science --- Political violence --- Insurgency --- Nonviolence --- Revolutions --- Social change --- Political resistance --- Government, Resistance to. --- Social change.
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Our understanding of civil war is shot through with the spectre of quagmire, a situation that traps belligerents, compounding and entrenching war's dangers. Despite the subject's importance, its causes are obscure. A pervasive 'folk' notion that quagmire is intrinsic to certain countries or wars has foreclosed inquiry, and scholarship has failed to identify quagmire as an object of study in its own right. Schulhofer-Wohl provides the first treatment of quagmire in civil war. In a rigorous but accessible analysis, he explains how quagmire can emerge from domestic-international interactions and strategic choices. To support the argument, Schulhofer-Wohl draws upon field research on Lebanon's sixteen-year civil war, structured comparisons with civil wars in Chad and Yemen, and rigorous statistical analyses of all civil wars worldwide fought between 1944 and 2006. The results make clear that the 'folk' notion misdiagnoses quagmire and demand that we revisit policies that rest upon it. Schulhofer-Wohl demonstrates that quagmire is made, not found.
Civil war. --- Civil wars --- Intra-state war --- Rebellions --- Government, Resistance to --- International law --- Revolutions --- War
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Anarchists who supported the Cuban War for Independence in the 1890s launched a transnational network linking radical leftists from their revolutionary hub in Havana, Cuba to South Florida, Puerto Rico, Panama, the Panama Canal Zone, and beyond. Over three decades, anarchists migrated around the Caribbean and back and forth to the US, printed fiction and poetry promoting their projects, transferred money and information across political borders for a variety of causes, and attacked (verbally and physically) the expansion of US imperialism in the 'American Mediterranean'. In response, US security officials forged their own transnational anti-anarchist campaigns with officials across the Caribbean. In this sweeping new history, Kirwin R. Shaffer brings together research in anarchist politics, transnational networks, radical journalism and migration studies to illustrate how men and women throughout the Caribbean basin and beyond sought to shape a counter-globalization initiative to challenge the emergence of modern capitalism and US foreign policy whilst rejecting nationalist projects and Marxist state socialism.
Anarchism --- Anarchism and anarchists --- Anarchy --- Government, Resistance to --- Libertarianism --- Nihilism --- Socialism --- Cuba --- History
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Revolutionary Nonviolence : Concepts, Cases and Controversies provides an advanced introduction to the central philosophy, ideas, themes, controversies and challenges of applying revolutionary nonviolence in political struggles today, with a particular emphasis on reframing nonviolence through a postcolonial lens.Bringing together an eminent group of researchers and activist-scholars, this collection focuses on a number of important questions: Is a commitment to radical nonviolence a necessity for generating revolutionary change in society? Should revolutionary movements abandon their reliance on political violence as a tool of change? What are some of the practical and theoretical challenges of adopting revolutionary nonviolence today? What can we learn from groups, actors and cases of people who have used revolutionary nonviolence to struggle against injustice? With a mix of theoretical and case study based chapters, the volume explores these and other important questions about how to generate necessary and lasting revolutionary change today.
Nonviolence --- Revolutions and socialism --- Social change --- Revolutions --- Social change --- Government, Resistance to --- Pacifism
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En 2018, le journaliste allemand Emran Feroz a mené une série d'entretiens avec Noam Chomsky à l'université d'Arizona, près de la frontière avec le Mexique. Ce grand analyste de notre époque y discute notamment de ce qu'on a appelle à tort la «crise des migrants» et de l'impérialisme, du réchauffement planétaire et de la menace nucléaire, de la présidence de Donald Trump, de la responsabilité des intellectuels, des religions et de l'éducation. Le sentiment d'urgence face à la situation qui se détériore aiguise le regard critique de Chomsky sans pour autant lui faire perdre son «optimisme de la volonté». À lire pour faire le point sur l'état du monde.
Human rights --- Humanity. --- Equality. --- Capitalism. --- Government, Resistance to. --- Philosophers --- Linguists --- Chomsky, Noam, - 1928-
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