“The common grievance of the revolution”: Bread, the Grain Trade, and Political Economy in Wollstonecraft's<i>View of the French Revolution</i>

Packham, Catherine

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“…Some of the earliest and most significant events of the French Revolution were, in fact, much more reformist 1 in nature than maximalist. 2 The high price and shortage of bread is often cited as the ‘common grievance’ of the French Revolution, and the March on Versailles 3 on 5 October 1789, an early form of mass mobilization campaign, was initiated by a group of women in a Paris marketplace desperate for bread (Packham, 2014). Although the French Revolution had both social and intellectual origins, 4 in the early phases, most people did not seem to have the overthrow of the ‘Old Regime’ in mind, but merely sought assurances from the ruler that food would be accessible and affordable (Doyle, 2018).…”

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Upping the ante without taking up arms: Why mass movements escalate demands

Kang

2023

Journal of Peace Research

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One of the unresolved puzzles in the civil resistance and contentious politics literatures is why some movements that begin seeking limited redress in a certain policy space escalate their claims to demand the ousting of a national leader or the entire regime, a process the article terms ‘demand escalation’. For instance, in the summer of 2019, thousands took to the streets of Hong Kong to protest about a proposed extradition bill that would allow criminal suspects to be sent to mainland China to face trial in courts controlled by the Communist Party. However, even after Hong Kong’s leader, Carrie Lam, announced the formal withdrawal of the controversial bill, protests continued with some calling for greater democracy and others demanding Lam’s resignation. Whereas most of the literature on civil resistance treats demands as fixed and focuses on different methods of struggle to pursue predefined ends, this article shows that demands can change as a result of the state–dissent interaction. The article argues that movements are more likely to escalate their demands when the state responds to the initial nonviolent action with a disproportionate use of force, because such an action intensifies the grievances the protesters have against the state and betrays the remaining trust that people might have had in the government. The analysis of a new quantitative dataset that catalogues both reformist and maximalist opposition campaigns globally supports this claim. By incorporating non-maximalist campaigns into the analysis and not treating demands as fixed, this article adds to our understanding of mass campaigns and highlights an overlooked means by which nonviolent campaigns can up their ante without resorting to violence.

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Upping the ante without taking up arms: Why mass movements escalate demands

Kang

2023

Journal of Peace Research

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“…After 1790, she is also explicit about her responsiveness to the issues of her moment, and recent scholarship has made substantial progress in illuminating the cultural currents, discursive trends, and contested questions that shaped her opinions and her texts. These include debates about: theatricality and spectacle (Plummer Crafton, 2011); the emergent commercial society and its impact on the agricultural economy (Packham, 2014, 2017); property law and its relationship to the institution of marriage (Johnson, 2004; Packham, 2020); and slavery and the abolitionist campaign (Brace, 2016, pp. 117‐34; Donington, 2020, pp.…”

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Across disciplines, languages, and nations: Recent scholarship on Mary Wollstonecraft

Kirkley

2022

Literature Compass

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In the last 4 decades, Mary Wollstonecraft has been brought from the margins of Western literary history to assume her place as a feminist foremother, radical icon, and familiar meme. As the range of disciplinary responses to Wollstonecraft's writing expands, our knowledge is deepening of her intellectual landscapes and her local and transnational networks. Diversification of expertise has also led to closer, interdisciplinary scrutiny of her works, including texts that have previously suffered neglect because of their apparent irrelevance to her feminism. Researchers increasingly recognise her transnational outlook, and this recognition has prompted intersectional reflections on her feminist legacy in the wake of Brexit and Black Lives Matter. A growing body of criticism is also revising the longstanding myth of her posthumous invisibility after the publication of Godwin's Memoirs, drawing attention to the persistent engagement with her works by key thinkers during the nineteenth century as well as her multiple afterlives in translation.

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Property Law

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2020

Mary Wollstonecraft in Context

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“The common grievance of the revolution”: Bread, the Grain Trade, and Political Economy in Wollstonecraft'sView of the French Revolution

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Upping the ante without taking up arms: Why mass movements escalate demands

Upping the ante without taking up arms: Why mass movements escalate demands

Across disciplines, languages, and nations: Recent scholarship on Mary Wollstonecraft

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