The Cambridge companion to civil disobedience
2021
Book
The theory and practice of civil disobedience has once again taken on import, given recent events. Considering widespread dissatisfaction with normal political mechanisms, even in well-established liberal democracies, civil disobedience remains hugely important, as a growing number of individuals and groups pursue political action. 'Digital disobedients', Black Lives Matter protesters, Extinction Rebellion climate change activists, Hong Kong activists resisting the PRC's authoritarian clampdown...all have practiced civil disobedience. In this Companion, an interdisciplinary group of scholars reconsiders civil disobedience from many perspectives. Whether or not civil disobedience works, and what is at stake when protesters describe their acts as civil disobedience, is systematically examined, as are the legacies and impact of Henry Thoreau, Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King. -- Provided by publisher.
Item Details
ISBN: 9781108745468
Description: xi, 440 pages ; 23 cm.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
- Introduction: why, once again, civil disobedience? / William E. Scheuerman
- The domestication of Henry David Thoreau / Russell L. Hanson
- Martin Luther King, Jr. and the politics of disobedience / Erin R. Pineda
- Liberalism : John Rawls and Ronald Dworkin / Alexander Kaufman
- Deliberative democratic disobedience / William Smith
- Radical democratic disobedience / Robin Celikates
- Realist disobedience / Andrew Sabl
- Anarchism : provincializing civil disobedience / James D. Ingram
- (In)civility / Candice Delmas
- The ethical dimension of civil disobedience / Maeve Cooke
- Nonviolence and the coercive turn / Alexander Livingston
- Punishment and civil disobedience / Christopher Bennett and Kimberley Brownlee
- Global citizenship, global civil disobedience, and political vices / Luis Cabrera
- Civil disobedience by states? / David Lefkowitz
- Coding resistance : digital strategies of civil disobedience / Theresa Züger
- Whistleblowing as civil disobedience / William E. Scheuerman
- Consequences of civil disobedience / Kurt Shock.
Control Number: 3325930
Publisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.