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Civil Disobedience from Nepal to Norway: Traditions, Extensions, and Civility book cover

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Civil Disobedience from Nepal to Norway Traditions, Extensions, and Civility

Edited By Tapio Nykänen, Tiina Seppälä, Petri Koikkalainen Copyright 2023
236 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

236 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

236 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India
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This volume explores the shifts in how civil disobedience has come to be theorized, defined, understood, and practised in contemporary politics. As social activism takes increasingly global forms, the goals of individuals and groups who view themselves as disobedient activists today can be defined in broader cultural terms than before, and their relationship to law and violence can be ambiguous.... Read more

1. Introduction: Civil Disobedience from Nepal to Norway

Tiina Seppälä, Tapio Nykänen, and Tiina Harjumaa

 

PART I. Civil Disobedience Then and Now

 

2. The Concept and Practises of Civil Disobedience

Petri Koikkalainen, Tapio Nykänen, and Tiina Harjumaa

 

3. Experiments with Civil Disobedience during Norwegian Environmental Struggles, 1970–2000

Stellan Vinthagen and Jørgen Johansen

 

4. Civil Disobedience and Artistic Protests – The Áltá and Deatnu Disputes and the Development of Sámi Resistance

Tapio Nykänen, Veli-Pekka Lehtola, and Birgitta Vinkka

 

5. Drugs, Disobedience, and Democracy: Civil Disobedience and Drug Policy

Mika Luoma-aho

 

PART II. Alternative Insights and Extensions of Civil Disobedience

 

6. Open Source Disobedience – Rise of Civic Hacktivism in Taiwan

Sami Kotiranta

 

7. Masked Struggle: Uncivil Disobedience on the Streets of Finland

Johan-Eerik Kukko

 

8. Is There an Alternative Tradition of Civil Disobedience in Europe?

Taru Haapala

 

9. Different Forms of Dissent in Anti-Deportation Activism in Finland: From Refugee Protests to Civil Disobedience

Tiina Seppälä

 

10. Dissenting Civil Society, Hunger Strikes, and the Transitional Justice Process in Nepal

Neetu Pokharel, Som Niroula, and Tiina Seppälä

 

 

PART III Defending Civility in Civil Disobedience

 

11. Academic Freedom, Resisting Intellectuals, and the Idea of University in South Asia

Arun Gupto

 

12. Understanding Whistleblowing: Civil Disobedience or Uncivil Action?

Manohar Kumar

Biography

Tapio Nykänen is University Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Lapland, and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland.

Tiina Seppälä is Senior Researcher in International Relations at the University of Lapland, and an Adjunct Professor of International Development Studies at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland.

Petri Koikkalainen is Professor of Arctic Politics and Governance (on leave of absence from the University of Lapland) and an Adjunct Professor of Political Science at the universities of Helsinki and Jyväskylä.

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