The Role of Violence in Nonviolent Resistance

Chenoweth, Erica

doi:10.1146/annurev-polisci-051421-124128

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“…Recent academic discussions importantly distinguish the unarmed violence that often accompanies nonviolent protest from armed insurrections (Case 2018, Chenoweth 2023, Kadivar and Ketchley 2018, Waddington, Jones and Critcher 1989. Unarmed protester violence includes property damage, looting, setting fires, fighting, and throwing things like bricks and bottles.…”

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Unarmed Violence, Police Perspectives, Community Struggle: Black- and White-centric news accounts of Black Protests about Policing in the U.S. 1994-2010

Oliver,

Gaede,

Milewski

et al. 2024

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Perceptions of Black protest movements by both the public and most academics are filtered through White-centric news sources that tend to associate Black people and Black protests with violence and downplay systemic inequality. Intentionally centering Black perspectives provides an important balance and corrective to mainstream distortions. Using a much wider range of original data than any study addressing comparable issues, this paper compares mainstream White-centric newswire and Black newspaper coverage of Black protests about policing between 1994 and 2010 using several different quantitative measures: whether an event was covered at all, the volume of coverage an event received, and the prevalence of significant keywords in stories about a given protest episode. All approaches show the mainstream newswires much more focused on Black violence and on official and police perspectives, as well as exhibiting more concentration of their attention on fewer episodes in media cascades. Black newspapers not only covered a more diverse array of episodes but gave more attention to systemic issues, Black perspectives and Black community organizing. The data show how markedly different collective memories of policing and protests about policing have been constructed in different news sources. These differences matter both for current politics and academic research about Black movements. Note: This is a working paper in process. Comments welcome. Please check with the authors for an updated version if you are citing after June 2024.

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Section: News Media and The Percep�on Of Violence And Disrup�onmentioning

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Unarmed Violence, Police Perspectives, Community Struggle: Black- and White-centric news accounts of Black Protests about Policing in the U.S. 1994-2010

Oliver,

Gaede,

Milewski

et al. 2024

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“…The radical environmental movement is also of great interest to scholars of political violence and contentious politics. One of the most important questions in contentious politics is why radical movements emerge, decline, and how tactics influence this cycle (Chenoweth 2023;Chenoweth and Stephan 2011;Davenport 2015;Davenport and Appel 2022;Tilly and Tarrow 2015). The radical environmental movement in the U.S. emerged from the mainstream environmental movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s (Woodhouse 2018).…”

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Why Radical Movements Collapse and Resurge: Evidence from the U.S. Radical Environmental Movement

Zeitzoff

2023

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Why did the radical environmental movement decline in the mid-2000’s in the U.S? Given the threat posed by global warming, why haven’t we seen the emergence of more intense contentious tactics from the movement? I develop a theory of why radical movements emerge, and why they collapse. I argue that pre-existing activist networks, along with the salience of an organizing threat like climate change, influence the emergence and tactics of radical movements. But repression changes a movement and has both a direct and indirect effect. Arrests and threats of repression can lead activists to exit the movement or change tactics (direct effect). As new activists from different networks enter the movement, they bring their own norms and preferred tactics (indirect effect). To test this theory, I take a mixed methods approach to the U.S. radical environmental movement and provide evidence from: 1) a new dataset of eco direct actions from 1995-2022; 2) novel survey data of the American public, younger Americans, and activists; and 3) semi-structured interviews with past and present activists and experts. I show the importance of pre-existing networks and subcultures as a pathway into radical activism, and how the response to repression shaped the subsequent trajectory of the movement.

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Containing Russia: Containing Nuclear Wars and Lesser Wars that Cascade

Braithwaite

2024

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War cascades to economic crises, environmental crises, and epidemics. There have been three major spikes in risks of nuclear war: the Kennedy-Krushchev spike (early 1960s); the mid-1980s (Reagan-Gorbachev); and the Biden-Putin-Xi spike today. Tangible steps were taken with the first two toward nuclear weapons elimination. Prospects of that with the current spike are mired in failures of Ukraine peacemaking. Extradition law reform is a strategy for deterrence of WMD ban violators. When nuclear powers frustrate disarmament, regional disarmament treaties can be grown. Progressively dismantled mutual assured nuclear destruction (MAD) can be steppingstones to prevent Mutual Assured Digital Destruction (MADD). Invading other countries is rare today. It does not pay. Recent empirics of warmaking effectiveness have reduced the explanatory power of realist international relations theory.

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The Role of Violence in Nonviolent Resistance

Cited by 15 publications

References 96 publications

Unarmed Violence, Police Perspectives, Community Struggle: Black- and White-centric news accounts of Black Protests about Policing in the U.S. 1994-2010

Unarmed Violence, Police Perspectives, Community Struggle: Black- and White-centric news accounts of Black Protests about Policing in the U.S. 1994-2010

Why Radical Movements Collapse and Resurge: Evidence from the U.S. Radical Environmental Movement

Containing Russia: Containing Nuclear Wars and Lesser Wars that Cascade

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