SCS 1150 : WHAT DO SOCIAL MOVEMENTS DO.doc

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Social Sciences
• Course: SCS 1150
• Professor: All

Document Summary

The blackwell companion to sicla movements, david a. Protest camps, mass marches, petitions, occupations, direct action, email campaigns, hacktivism, boycotts, street theatre, events using nudity and humour, media campaigns. Act-up: tactical choices: see adrienne e. christiansen and jeremy j. hanson (1996). Low: eudcation/persuasion: legal politics, demonstrations: show numbers or intensity of concern (marches, rallies, petitions, economic pressure (boycotts, selective buying, confrontation, disruption, civil disobedience. Goals of confrontational tactics: get opponents to overreact, disruption, bring attention to the cause. Principled: undertaken for ethical or moral reasons, namely that it is wrong to use violence. Strategic (or pragmatic): undertaken because it is believed to be more effective than alternatives, in particular more effective than violence. Ghandi, principled non-violenece and the roots of strategic non-violence. Non-violence has a particular effect on the people who undertake it and on those at whom the action is directed. The first principle of non-violence is non-cooperation with everything humiliating.