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Title Ripples of hope : how ordinary people resist repression without violence / Robert M. Press.

Publication Info. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2015]
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Description 1 online resource (327 pages).
Series Protest and social movements ; 4
Protest and social movements ; 4.
Contents Introduction ; Resisting repression without violence -- Sierra Leone. Students shake the pillars of power ; Women help restore democracy ; Mass noncooperation helps defeat a violent junta -- Liberia. Nonviolent resistance in abeyance ; Peaceful resistance during a civil war -- Kenya. Individual resistance against repression ; Establishing a culture of resistance -- Conclusion -- Appendix. Methodology ; Interviews ; Comparative levels of repression ; Chronologies ; Abbreviations and significant terms.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-315) and index.
Summary Based on case studies in three African countries and new social movement theory, examines individual and group protests stood up to violence and oppression through mainly nonviolent means.
Note Print version record.
Subject Government, Resistance to -- Africa -- Case studies.
Social movements -- Africa -- Case studies.
Protest movements -- Africa -- Case studies.
Nonviolence -- Africa -- Case studies.
Nonviolence.
Protest movements.
Social movements.
Soziale Bewegung.
Protestbewegung.
Gewaltloser Widerstand.
Political science -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil rights.
Political science -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Government, Resistance to. (OCoLC)fst00945663
Nonviolence. (OCoLC)fst01039027
Protest movements. (OCoLC)fst01079826
Social movements. (OCoLC)fst01122657
Africa. (OCoLC)fst01239509
Soziale Bewegung.
Protestbewegung.
Gewaltloser Widerstand.
Sierra Leone.
Liberia.
Kenya.
Genre/Form Case studies. (OCoLC)fst01423765
Other Form: Print version: Press, Robert M. Ripples of hope 9789089647481 (OCoLC)898114202
ISBN 9789048525157 (electronic bk.)
9048525152 (electronic bk.)
9789089647481
9089647481
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