The Cambridge companion to civil disobedience

Book 2021

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 acti...

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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

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3325930

Other Authors:

Scheuerman, William E., 1965- editor

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