Stellan Vinthagen

Broschiertes Buch

A Theory of Nonviolent Action

How Civil Resistance Works

Beschreibung

A ground-breaking book that provides for the first time in decades a major systematic attempt to develop a theory of nonviolent action.

Autor

Stellan Vinthagen is inaugural endowed chair in the study of nonviolent direct action and civil resistance and professor of sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is also a council member of War Resisters' International, academic adviser to the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC), co-founder of the Resistance Studies Network (www.resistancestudies.org) and editor of the Journal of Resistance Studies. Since 1980, he has been an educator, organiser and activist and has participated in more than thirty nonviolent civil disobedience actions, for which he has served in total more than one year in prison.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Zed Books Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 410
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 514g
• ISBN-13: 9781780325156
• ISBN-10: 1780325150
• Artikelnr.: 40492912