This book is about ordinary people and the roles they come to play during times of rebellion and resistance against powerful regimes. How is violence against such regimes organized and sustained? How and why do individuals accept enormous risks in the process?

In the Caribbean, the enslaved workers resisted their conditions by finding ways to keep a sense of identity that helped them to survive the slavery system. They also continually struggled for...

Resistance and Rebellion: Lessons from Eastern Europe explains how ordinary people become involved in resistance and rebellion against powerful regimes. The book shows how a sequence of casual forces - social norms, focal points, rational calculation - operate to drive individuals into roles of passive resistance and, at a second stage, into ...

Resistance and Rebellion: Lessons from Eastern Europe explains how ordi-nary people become involved in resistance and rebellion against powerful regimes.

2006年12月14日 · Resistance and Rebellion: Lessons from Eastern Europe explains how ordinary people become involved in resistance and rebellion against powerful regimes. The book shows how a sequence of casual forces - social norms, focal points, rational calculation - operate to drive individuals into roles of passive resistance and, at a second stage, into ...

It looks at moments in history when resistance to the status quo reached such a scale that a fundamental shift occurred in the structure of society—so-called revolutions. In so doing, the chapter relates the actions of a mass movement to what might be going on in the heads of its individual participants.

2021年11月18日 · This chapter examines some of the more recent developments, as well as criticisms, of the broader study of subaltern resistance and rebellion within a global context. The empirical case studies are drawn primarily from the European imperial expansion during the long nineteenth century, and from British India in particular, and the discussion ...

In the precarious world of political discourse, one of the few constants was the indefensible nature of rebellion and revolt. This had been so, even in the bustling world of Tuscan civic life in which citizens had been so significant. When Dante’s Virgil explains his exile from heaven, he condemns himself by the very use of the term ribellante.

2009年12月4日 · This chapter provides a detailed description of three sets of interconnected mechanisms crucial for initiating and sustaining rebellion: Mechanisms driving movement from neutrality to widespread, but unorganized and unarmed, resistance (0 to +1).