The Cambridge Companion to Civil Disobedience (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy)

The theory and practice of civil disobedience has once again taken on import, given recent events. Considering widespread dissatisfaction with normal political mechanisms, even in well-established liberal democracies, civil disobedience remains hugely important, as a growing number of individuals and groups pursue political action. 'Digital disobedients', Black Lives Matter protestors, Extinction Rebellion climate change activists, Hong Kong activists resisting the PRC's authoritarian clampdown...all have practiced civil disobedience. In this Companion, an interdisciplinary group of scholars reconsiders civil disobedience from many perspectives. Whether or not civil disobedience works, and what is at stake when protestors describe their acts as civil disobedience, is systematically examined, as are the legacies and impact of Henry Thoreau, Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King. Infromation Cover Series Page Other Volumes in the Series Title Page Copyright Page Contents Contributors Introduction: Why, Once Again, Civil Disobedience?William E. Scheuerman PART I Plural Voices, Rival Frameworks 1 The Domestication of Henry David ThoreauRussell L. Hanson 2 Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Politics of Disobedient CivilityErin R. Pineda 3 Liberalism: John Rawls and Ronald Dworkin Alexander Kaufman 4 Deliberative Democratic DisobedienceWilliam Smith 5 Radical Democratic DisobedienceRobin Celikates 6 Realist DisobedienceAndrew Sabl 7 Anarchism: Provincializing Civil DisobedienceJames D. Ingram PART II Different Elements, Competing Interpretations 8 (In)CivilityCandice Delmas 9 The Ethical Dimension of Civil DisobedienceMaeve Cooke 10 Nonviolence and the Coercive TurnAlexander Livingston 11 Punishment and Civil DisobedienceChristopher Bennett and Kimberley Brownlee PART III Changing Circumstances, Political Consequences 12 Global Citizenship, Global Civil Disobedience, and Political VicesLuis Cabrera 13 Civil Disobedience by States?David Lefkowitz 14 Coding Resistance: Digital Strategies of Civil DisobedienceTheresa Züger 15 Whistleblowing as Civil DisobedienceWilliam E. Scheuerman 16 Consequences of Civil DisobedienceKurt Schock Index The theory and practice of civil disobedience has once again taken on import, given recent events. Considering widespread dissatisfaction with normal political mechanisms, even in well-established liberal democracies, civil disobedience remains hugely important, as a growing number of individuals and groups pursue political action. 'Digital disobedients', Black Lives Matter protesters, Extinction Rebellion climate change activists, Hong Kong activists resisting the PRC's authoritarian clampdown...all have practiced civil disobedience. In this Companion, an interdisciplinary group of scholars reconsiders civil disobedience from many perspectives. Whether or not civil disobedience works, and what is at stake when protesters describe their acts as civil disobedience, is systematically examined, as are the legacies and impact of Henry Thoreau, Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King. -- Provided by publisher Outlines the theory and practice of civil disobedience, helping to understand how it is operating in the current turbulent conditions.