Unarmed Insurrections
Unarmed Insurrections
副标题: People Power Movements In Nondemocracies
ISBN: 9780816641932
出版社: Univ Of Minnesota Press
出版年: 2004-11-15
页数: 256
定价: USD 24.00
装帧: Paperback
内容简介
In the last two decades of the twentieth century, a wave of “people power” movements erupted throughout the nondemocratic world. In South Africa, the Philippines, Nepal, Thailand, Burma (Myanmar), China, and elsewhere, mass protest demonstrations, strikes, boycotts, civil disobedience, and other nonviolent actions were brought to bear on a rigid political status quo.
Kurt Schock compares the successes of the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa, the people power movement in the Philippines, the pro-democracy movement in Nepal, and the antimilitary movement in Thailand with the failures of the pro-democracy movement in China and the anti-regime challenge in Burma. Schock develops a synthetic framework that allows him to identify which characteristics increase the resilience of a challenge to state repression, and which aspects of a state’s relations can be exploited by such a challenge.
By looking at how these methods of protest promoted regime change in some countries but not in others, this book provides rare insight into the often overlooked and little understood power of nonviolent action.
作者简介
Kurt Schock is associate professor of sociology at Rutgers University and a member of the graduate faculty in global affairs.
目录
Introduction
1. From "People s War" to "People Power"?
2. Political Process and Nonviolent Action Approaches to Political Contention
3. People Power Unleashed: South Africa and the Philippines
4. People Power Suppressed: Burma and China
5. Challenging Monarchies and Militaries: People Power in Nepal and Thailand
6. Trajectories of Unarmed Insurrections