The complex relationship between violence and nonviolence in social movements .
We are living in a time of uprisings that routinely involve physical confrontation—burning vehicles, barricades, vandalism, and scuffles between protesters and authorities. Yet the Left has struggled to incorporate rioting into theories of change, remaining stuck in recurring debates over violence and nonviolence. Civil resistance studies have popularized the term “strategic nonviolence, ” spreading the notion that violence is wholly counter-productive.
Street Rebellion scrutinizes recent research and develops a broad and grounded portrait of the relationship between strategic nonviolence and rioting in the struggle for liberation.
Table des matières
1. Riots and Resistance
2. A Sharp Critique of Strategic Nonviolence
3. Why Civil Resistance Works with the Wrong Data
4. Molotov Cocktails to Mass Marches
5. The Black Bloc and the Effervescent Riot
6. Fallists, Decolonization, and Humanizing Violence
Humanizing Violence and the Decolonial Riot
7. A Revolution Is Not a Peaceful Protest
8. Appendix: Methods, Limitations, and Directions for Further Study
9. Bibliography
List of Tables
Table 1. Strategic goals and methods for theorists of revolution
Table 2. Riots in NAVCO 1.3
Table 3. Riots and nonviolent demonstrations in the US, 1946-2017
Table 4. Riots and nonviolent demonstrations in South Africa, 1946-2017
List of Figures
Figure 1. Violent resistance versus civil resistance in theory
Figure 2. Violent resistance versus civil resistance-as-nonviolence
Figure 3. Martial resistance versus civil resistance
Figure 4. Riots and nonviolent demonstrations in the US, 1946-2017
Figure 5. Riots and nonviolent demonstrations in South Africa, 1946-2017
A propos de l’auteur
Benjamin S. Case is an organizer, researcher, and writer with more than two decades experience in community, labor, and political organizing. He holds a Ph D in sociology from the University of Pittsburgh and a Masters in Public Administration from NYU. Case is a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Work and Democracy, a fellow at the Resistance Studies Initiative, and an affiliate faculty member in the Department of Sociology at UMass Amherst. He is based in Pittsburgh, PA.