List of Tables and Figures
Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: What Nonviolence Is and What It Is Not
Chapter 2: Religious and Ethical Positions on Violence and
Nonviolence
Chapter 3: The Strategy of Nonviolent Resistance
Chapter 4: Types of Nonviolent Action
Chapter 5: Dynamics of Nonviolent Struggles
Chapter 6: Outcomes and Consequences of Nonviolent Struggles
Chapter 7: Armed Forces, Defections, and Nonviolent Change
Chapter 8: The Global Diffusion of Nonviolence
Chapter 9: Future Directions in Civil Resistance Research
Appendix: Discussion Questions
Endnotes
Glossary of Terms
References
Sharon Erickson Nepstad is Professor of Sociology at the University
of New Mexico. She is the author of numerous articles and three
books, including: Nonviolent Revolutions: Civil Resistance in the
Late 20th Century (2011, Oxford University Press); Religion and War
Resistance in the Plowshares Movement (2008, Cambridge University
Press); and Convictions of the Soul: Religion, Culture, and Agency
in the Central American
Solidarity Movement (2004, Oxford University Press).
"It is not an easy task to capture a moving target, but Nepstad has
successfully done so, having effectively woven the different
threads of this emerging field together. Nonviolent Struggle
provides a comprehensive overview of this still under-researched
phenomenon and in that sense is clearly one of the foundational
academic works... Nonviolent Struggle is a must-read for scholars,
students, practitioners and anyone with a general interest in
conflict
transformation, peace studies, social change and social movements."
-- Siddharth Tripathi, Democratization
"After languishing for years as a small and somewhat ghettoized
area of research, the study of non-violent contention has blossomed
in the last decade into one of the liveliest subfields within the
broader study of contentious politics. And yet, to date, there has
been no single text that surveys and summarizes the mushrooming
work in this important area. There is now. Even better, that volume
has been authored by, Sharon Nepstad, one of the key figures
contributing to the scholarly renaissance in the field. Must
reading for anyone who hopes to understand the dynamics of this
especially significant form of contentious politics."
--Doug McAdam, Stanford University and co-author of Deeply Divided:
Racial Politics and Social Movements in Post-War America
"In her latest book, Sharon Erickson Nepstad provides a sweeping
and thoughtful survey of nonviolent resistance-from philosophical
roots to historical and contemporary applications, and from
theoretical foundations to unanswered empirical questions that
remain. This book will certainly be an invaluable resource for
students and researchers of nonviolent struggle for years to
come."
--Erica Chenoweth, University of Denver
"This is a long-overdue and badly-needed book for this rapidly
expanding subfield. For nearly twenty years I've taught an
upper-division undergraduate seminar on nonviolence and this is
just the kind of text I've been looking for but have yet been able
to find."
--Stephen Zunes, University of San Francisco
"Sociologist Nepstad (New Mexico) intended her book as a primer on
the variety of forms and strategic choices facing those who are
interested in resistance to authority as part of achieving social
justice. This makes it highly useful as a textbook for courses in
human rights, peace studies, or social movements. But it it also a
strong introduction to the theories about, history of, and research
on, nonviolence for researchers whose work has bordered on but
not
included this."
--M.M. Ferree, University of Wisconsin-Madison, lCHOICE
"The book provides a clear summary of research on nonviolent
struggle and a good introduction to nonviolence and nonviolent
action for
undergraduates in courses on social movements and peace and
conflict." --Kurt Schock, Rutgers University Newark, American
Journal of Sociology
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