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Politics of non‐violent action
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This article is published in Inquiry: Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines.The article was published on 1975-03-01. It has received 26 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Action (philosophy).read more
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Another Realism: The Politics of Gandhian Nonviolence
TL;DR: Gandhian nonviolence is based on a form of political realism, specifically a contextual, consequentialist, and moral-psychological analysis of a political world understood to be marked by inherent tendencies toward conflict, domination, and violence as discussed by the authors.
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Critical agency, resistance and a post-colonial civil society
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a theory of resistance, read from a broadly Foucaultian perspective, which is a process in which hidden, small-scale and marginal agencies have an impact on power, on norms, civil society, the state and the international.
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Research on Terrorism and Countering Terrorism
Gary LaFree,Laura Dugan +1 more
TL;DR: The Global Terrorism Database (GDB) as discussed by the authors is a collection of more than 77,000 terrorist incidents from 1970 to 2006, with the most recent one being the 9/11 attacks.
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Desistance from terrorism: What can we learn from criminology?
Gary LaFree,Erin Miller +1 more
TL;DR: In recent years, an increasing number of researchers have observed that there are far fewer studies of how terrorism ends than how it begins as discussed by the authors, and that the issue of how crime ends has been shap...
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The role of Aboriginal humour in cultural survival and resistance
TL;DR: The authors investigates the function of humour in the survival of the Aboriginal people against all odds, including the onslaught of invasion, dispossession, powerlessness and oppression since the British invasion in 1788.
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The Politics of Nonviolent Action
TL;DR: The most comprehensive attempt to examine the nature of nonviolent struggle as a social and political technique, including its view of power, its specific methods of action, its dynamics in conflict and the conditions for success or failure in its use, is presented in this article.