商品簡介
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.
作者簡介
Isabelle Sommier is Full Professor of Political Sociology at Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne University and former director of the Centre de recherches politiques de la Sorbonne. She has published on the theory of social movements, political violence, radicalization and terrorism.Graeme Hayes is Reader in French and Social Movement Studies at Aston University, UK. He is Editor in chief of Social Movement Studies, and has published widely on non-violent action, environmental movements, and protest traditionsSylvie Ollitrault is Senior researcher at CNRS-France, Rennes University. She has published on French environmental movement, NGO's action and protest movement. She is involved in lot of academic networks (AFSP-IPSA-ECPR) on Green movements