ISBN:
9780203122013
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9780415692724
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9781136330810
Language:
English
Pages:
xii, 189 p
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics
Series Statement:
Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version Globalizing Resistance against War : Theories of Resistance and the New Anti-War Movement
DDC:
303.6/6
Keywords:
Peace movements - Great Britain
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Abstract:
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 attempt to develop the theoretical debate further, this book analyses two strands of current thought; liberal cosmopolitanism which considers the movement a consensual force of opposition against war in
Description / Table of Contents:
Front Cover; Globalizing Resistance against War; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; 1. Introduction: global war, global resistance?; 2. Three theoretical approaches to resistance; The liberal cosmopolitan approach; The radical poststructuralist approach; The state-centric approach; Conclusion; 3. The anti-war movement in Britain; A brief history of the movement; The case study and the organizations; Empirical research materials and methods; 4. A new and global anti-war movement?; Political context and ascendance of the movement
Description / Table of Contents:
Historical contextualization and new characteristicsConclusion; 5. Anti-what? Aims and targets of resistance; Against the US government; Against the British government; Against global neo-liberalism and international institutions; Against war, militarism and the authority of the state; Against one or all wars?; Conclusion; 6. How to resist? Strategies of resistance; Strategies of resistance against governments; Coalitions, solidarity and supporting other movements; Nonviolence as a strategy against war and militarism; Towards the multitude? Working class against war; Conclusion
Description / Table of Contents:
7. The power of the movementPublic support as the main element of power; Unity and diversity as elements of power; Conclusion; 8. Winning while losing? Successes and failures; Perspectives on effects and achievements; Broader impacts; Perspectives on failures; Conclusion; 9. Conclusion; Metatheories/micropolitics of resistance: convergences and divergences; Towards a 'both-and' instead of an 'either-or' approach; The multitude/global civil society as an answer to war?; Epilogue: unity, diversity and the politics of resistance; Notes; References; Index
Note:
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Available via World Wide Web
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