1st Edition
People Power and Political Change Key Issues and Concepts
Part 1: Resistance and Political Change 1. People Power and Nonviolent Methods in Historical Perspective 2. People Power and People’s War Compared 3. People Power and Changing Theories of Revolution Part 2: Central Concepts and Debates 4. Power, Violence and Unarmed Resistance 5.Constructing the ‘People’: Body Politic, Nation or Class? 6. People Power and Electoral Democracy: ‘Electoral Revolutions’ and Democratization Part 3: Implications of Globalization for Success of People Power 7. Global Trends, Transnational Solidarity and International Politics 8. Conclusion
Biography
April Carter is Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for Peace and Reconciliation Studies, Coventry University.
It would comprise the basis for an excellent syllabus for an advanced graduate course of a semester or term, if not a full year. The book’s structure offers conceptual handles for discussion in faceto-face teaching and would be particularly helpful for those using elicitive methods. The comprehensive bibliography allows readers to take advantage of a reliable scholar’s ongoing engagement with major thinkers who have shaped theory, contemporary works, and her own study of real-world successes and failures of nonviolent action worldwide.
Mary Elizabeth King - University for Peace
