Title Breaking laws : violence and civil disobedience in protest / Isabelle Sommier, Graeme Hayes, and Sylvie Ollitrault

Published Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2019] ©2019

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Description 1 online resource (271 pages) : illustrations Series Protest and social movements Protest and social movements. Contents Front matter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations, Organizations, and Parties -- Introduction to Breaking Laws -- Part 1. Revolutionary Violence Experiences of Armed Struggle in France, Germany, Japan, Italy, and the United States -- Part 2. Civil Disobedience -- Biographical Notes -- Bibliography -- Index Summary This book questions the complex relationship between social movements and violence through two contrasted lenses, first through the short-lived radical left wing post '69 revolutionary violence and secondly in the present diffusion of civil disobedience actions, often at the border between non-violence and violence. This book shows how and why violence occurs or does not, and what different meanings it can take. The short-lived extreme left revolutionary groups that grew out of May '68 and the opposition to the Vietnam War (such as the German Red Army Faction, the Italian Red Brigades, and the Japanese Red Army) are without any doubt on the violent side. More ambiguous are the burgeoning contemporary forms of "civil" disobedience, breaking the law with the aim of changing it. In theory, these efforts are associated with nonviolence and self-restraint. In practice, the line is more difficult to trace, as much depends on how political players define and frame political violence and political legitimacy Analysis Contentious politics, violence, extreme left, 1968 years, non-violence, Direct action, Citizenship, Action Repertoires, Civil disobedience Notes Originally published in French as: La violence révolutionnaire / Isabelle Sommier ; and La désobéissance civile. 2e édition augmentée et mise à jour / Graeme Hayes & Sylvie Ollitrault Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description from online resource; title from electronic title page (EbscoHost, viewed September 3, 2019) Subject Political violence. Terrorism. Civil disobedience. Terrorism Civil Disorders terrorism. Demonstrations and protest movements. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- General. Civil disobedience Political violence Terrorism Form Electronic book Author Hayes, Graeme, 1967- author. Ollitrault, Sylvie, author ISBN 9789048528271 9048528275

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