Social Movements, Nonviolent Strategies, and the State

This volume probes the intersections between the fields of social movements and nonviolent resistance. Bringing together a range of studies focusing on protest movements around the world, it explores the overlaps and divergences between the two research concentrations, considering the dimensions of nonviolent strategies in repressive states, the means of studying them, and conditions of success of nonviolent resistance in differing state systems. In setting a new research agenda, it will appeal to scholars in sociology and political science who study social movements and nonviolent protest.

Hank Johnston is Professor of Sociology and Hansen Chair of Peace and Nonviolence Studies at San Diego State University, USA. He is the author of What Is a Social Movement? and States and Social Movements, the co-editor of Violent Protest, Contentious Politics, and the Neoliberal State, and the editor of Culture, Social Movements and Protest.