Civil Disobedience from Nepal to Norway: Traditions, Extensions, and Civility

This volume explores the shifts in how civil disobedience has come to be theorized, defined, understood, and practised in contemporary politics. As social activism takes increasingly global forms, the goals of individuals and groups who view themselves as disobedient activists today can be defined in broader cultural terms than before, and their relationship to law and violence can be ambiguous.

Civil disobedience may no longer be entirely nonviolent, its purposes no longer necessarily serve...