1st Edition
Globalizing Resistance against War Theories of Resistance and the New Anti-War Movement
By Tiina Seppälä
Copyright 2012
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
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The political revival of the anti-war movement after 9/11 launched a controversial debate on global resistance. Through detailed study of the anti-war movement in Britain, this book critically evaluates the theoretical debate from the perspective of ‘critical theory in political practice’.
This book presents new arguments and theoretical framework to consider globalized resistance to war. In an... Read more
1. Introduction: Global War, Global Resistance? 2. Three Theoretical Approaches to Resistance 3. The Anti-War Movement in Britain 4. A New and Global Anti-War Movement? 5. Anti-What? Aims and Targets of Resistance 6. How to Resist? Strategies of Resistance 7. The Power of the Movement 8. Winning While Losing? Successes and Failures 9. Conclusion
Biography
Tiina Seppälä is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of Lapland, Finland and Visiting Research Fellow, the Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group, Kolkata, India
