Ripples of Hope : How Ordinary People Resist Repression Without Violence /
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.
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Resisting repression without violence
- Sierra Leone
- Students shake the pillars of power
- Radical activism : from seeking regime reform to regime change
- 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.