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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Nonviolent direct action"”.
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Dialogue and Resistance. An Evaluation of Two Approaches to Peace Campaigning at RAF Molesworth (1980-1987)
… believed that by engaging in various forms of nonviolent direct action a campaigning group could win over, or convert, even the hardest opponent to their cause. He also suggested that strict adherence to a discipline of nonviolence was necessary if such a group was to wield sufficient political …
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Fight the Power: Protest, Showdown and Civil Rights Activity in Three Southern Cities, 1960-1965.
… SCLC found thr right method in the use of nonviolent direct action. While Albany was a failure, it was this campaign that led to the campaigns of Birmingham and Selma which led in passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Through confrontation with law …
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SOUNDING STRATEGY: COMPOSERS’ USES OF SOCIAL JUSTICE AND POLITICAL THEMES IN CONTEMPORARY CLASSICAL CONCERT MUSIC
… from ethnography to hermeneutic analysis to nonviolent direct action strategy, drawing on the work of musicologists, ethnomusicologists, and social movement theorists. Given the elitism of the classical concert hall, it is a non-obvious genre in which to convey a social justice or leftist …
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State repression, nonviolence, and protest mobilization
… dissertation builds on Gene Sharp's framework of nonviolent direct action, along with Hess and Martin's repression backfire, in order to deepen our understanding of how state repression impacts protest mobilization and historical processes of social change. After initially problematizing Gene …