Revolutionary Nonviolence: Concepts, Cases and Controversies

✍ Scribed by Richard Jackson; Joseph Llewellyn; Griffin Manawaroa Leonard; Aidan Gnoth; Tonga Karena (editors)

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 265
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

“Revolutionary Nonviolence: Concepts, Cases and Controversies provides an advanced introduction to the central philosophy, ideas, themes, controversies and challenges of applying revolutionary nonviolence in political struggles today, with a particular emphasis on reframing nonviolence through a postcolonial lens.
Bringing together an eminent group of researchers and activist-scholars, this collection focuses on a number of important questions: Is a commitment to radical nonviolence a necessity for generating revolutionary change in society? Should revolutionary movements abandon their reliance on political violence as a tool of change? What are some of the practical and theoretical challenges of adopting revolutionary nonviolence today? What can we learn from groups, actors and cases of people who have used revolutionary nonviolence to struggle against injustice? With a mix of theoretical and case study based chapters, the volume explores these and other important questions about how to generate necessary and lasting revolutionary change today.”

✦ Table of Contents

Front Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: the opportunities and challenges
of revolutionary nonviolence today
Introduction
A series of imperatives
Revolutionary nonviolence: issues and challenges
Overview of chapters
References
Chapter 1: A defence of revolutionary nonviolence
Introduction
Violence and realism
Violence, agency, liberation
Pacifism as oppression
Violence, pacifism and revolution
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
Chapter 2: Listen, leftist! Violence is not revolutionary
Bookchin, means and ends, and the left moving forward
The historical limits of violence
The myth of violence as necessary
The myth of violence as intrinsically valuable
The myth of violence as psychologically liberating
Creating a nonviolent future
Notes
References
Chapter 3: Symbolic nonviolence and the transformation of society
beyond liberal capitalism
Introduction
Explaining the absence of evidence
Rethinking power and resistance
Violence or nonviolence? Yes please!
Notes
References
Chapter 4: Eradicating warism: our most dangerous disease
Introduction
Pacifism and just war
Pacifism and peace
The challenge of warism
Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 5: Social defence: a revolutionary agenda
Introduction
Social defence
A revolutionary agenda
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
Chapter 6: One No against violence, many Yeses beyond violence:Zapatista dignity, autonomy, counter-conduct
Introduction
Thesis 1: Conventional concepts of nonviolent resistance strategies promote regime change and liberal democracy within a colonial-capitalist world-system
Thesis 2: Revolutionary nonviolent strategies shift focus from the “politics of demand” within and against violent regimes, to the “politics of dignity” within-against-and-beyond the violent system
Thesis 3: Despite maintaining its capacity for armed struggle, the Zapatista movement exemplifies the possibilities of revolutionary nonviolent strategies inthe world today
Thesis 4: The Zapatista movement demonstrates that nonviolent politics of dignity starts with one NO in/against violence and experiments with many YESES beyond violence
Thesis 5: The Zapatista movement’s struggles for autonomy occur within-against-and-beyond the capitalist market and the state
Thesis 6: Zapatista struggles for autonomy make, deepen and connect “cracks” within and against the violent system and create new ways of doing beyond it
Thesis 7: Zapatista struggles for autonomy are reinventing participatory democracy to create “another world in which many worlds fit”
Thesis 8: Revolutionary Zapatista women engage in various forms of “counter-conduct” to critique and enhance the Zapatista struggles for autonomy
Thesis 9: Revolutionary Zapatista women’s counter-conduct involves refusal of violent practices and the creation of practices without-against-and-beyond violence within the movement
Thesis 10: The Zapatista movement’s struggles for autonomy and Zapatista women’s counter-conduct demonstrate that other nonviolent resistance strategies are possible
Thesis 11: Scholars have hitherto only studied nonviolent resistance within the world as it is; the point is to make the world anew
References
Zapatista statements
Chapter 7: Nonviolence within national movements: BDS and the
formal Palestinian political process
Introduction
Nonviolent resistance
Legitimacy beyond Oslo
The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement
Nonviolence and the political system
Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 8: “Media jujutsu”: resistance and the media power of
opponents
‘Media jujutsu’: resistance and the media power of opponents
The fossil fuel regime
The New South Wales movement against CSG (2011–2016)
Networks and power
Multi-frame, multi-object, multi-actor
Contesting narrative power
Social media and public narrative
Calling power to account: mediated cut-through
Escalating tension
Policy shifts
Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 9: Wiremu Patene and the early peace movement at
Karakariki
Introduction
Context
Wi Patene
Three Kings
Karakariki
Legacy
Conclusion
References
Chapter 10: Reclaiming the role of Rongo: a revolutionary and radical form of nonviolent politics
Introduction
The history and political context of Parihaka
Te Rā o te Haeata – The Day of Reconciliation
Understanding the resistance narrative(s) of Parihaka
Te Ao o Rongomaraeroa: the world of Rongomaraeroa – the Māori god of peace
Passive resistance and Rongo
Seeking the message of resistance in song
Rapua te mea ngaro - Seek that which is lost
Notes
References
Chapter 11: Understanding Baxter’s “Dunedin lawyer”: Alfred Richard
Barclay and the significance of Boer War opposition in
New Zealand
Dunedin, Saturday 25 January 1902
The young Archibald Baxter
Alfred Richard Barclay
NZ opposition to the Boer War: context andhistory 1899–1902
The Hillside speech
Reflections on the significance of Barclay’s speech
Notes
References
Index