People Power and Political Change
April Carter’s introduction to the ideas and history of people power. She looks at mass non-violent movements from Gandhi’s India to eastern Europe in 1989 and beyond, and at the questions they raise about democracy, legitimacy and the limits of non-violence.
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Adam Roberts
First, it’s the shortest of the five books under review. It’s very succinct and tightly written. The second thing that strikes me is its emphasis on “people power” – by which she means essentially the same thing as civil resistance, but particularly focusing on those crisis moments when there are millions on the streets and so on, the high points of civil resistance campaigns.
Interview · December 2011
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