Have Repertoire, Will Travel: Nonviolence as Global Contentious Performance

Nonviolence is a universal method for all human conflict, celebrated and practiced around the world. It has evolved into a global repertoire of contentious political performance, enabled by social movement emissaries and global models of state and civic participation. Understanding nonviolence as a contentious performance can explain its successes and failures across contexts and over time.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 94 pages
Publication date: 04 April 2024
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Nonviolence is a celebrated and practiced approach to resolving conflicts across the world, recognized as a universal method for all human interactions. This Element explores the evolution of nonviolence into a global repertoire, a structured form of contentious political performance that has spread as an international movement of movements, systematizing and institutionalizing specific modes of protest as effective claims-making practices. It delves into how the formal organizational efforts of social movement emissaries and favorable global models of state and civic participation have facilitated the globalization of nonviolence. The Element provides a historical perspective to understand the successes and failures of nonviolence across different contexts and over time. It emphasizes the dynamics of contention among global repertoires and calls for further research to examine the challenges posed by institutionalization.

Nonviolence is a celebrated and practiced approach to resolving conflicts across the world, recognized as a universal method for all human interactions. This Element explores the evolution of nonviolence into a global repertoire, a structured form of contentious political performance that has spread as an international movement of movements, systematizing and institutionalizing specific modes of protest as effective claims-making practices. It delves into how the formal organizational efforts of social movement emissaries and favorable global models of state and civic participation have facilitated the globalization of nonviolence. The Element provides a historical perspective to understand the successes and failures of nonviolence across different contexts and over time. It emphasizes the dynamics of contention among global repertoires and calls for further research to examine the challenges posed by institutionalization.

Nonviolence is a celebrated and practiced approach to resolving conflicts across the world, recognized as a universal method for all human interactions. This Element explores the evolution of nonviolence into a global repertoire, a structured form of contentious political performance that has spread as an international movement of movements, systematizing and institutionalizing specific modes of protest as effective claims-making practices. It delves into how the formal organizational efforts of social movement emissaries and favorable global models of state and civic participation have facilitated the globalization of nonviolence. The Element provides a historical perspective to understand the successes and failures of nonviolence across different contexts and over time. It emphasizes the dynamics of contention among global repertoires and calls for further research to examine the challenges posed by institutionalization.

ISBN-13: 9781009483988