Overview
- Offers an innovative, contemporary, theoretical, and conceptual perspective
- Presents a theoretical framework and applied case studies
- Reconstructures the concept of social disobedience
Part of the book series: Contributions to Political Science (CPS)
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About this book
Following a dialogic and interdisciplinary approach, this book highlights changes in the concept and action of disobedience, presenting a theoretical framework and applied case studies.
Disobedience has traditionally been played out through collective actions and protests which configure and propose alternative social scenarios to the status quo. Today, in a changing socio-historical context, disobedience represents a mode of political participation and a form of an active citizenship attempt to correct authoritarian drifts. Furthermore, it often highlights social problems and morally controversial issues. Disobedience is not only a right granted to the individual within democratic systems and/or duty imposed in the interest of society in a pro-social sense, i.e. defense of human rights and a tendency towards equalization, but it also became an alternative process, often symbolic, of construction of reality.
The book focuses on a) reconstructing the concept of socialdisobedience and the field's state of the art from an innovative, contemporary, theoretical, and conceptual perspective and b) analyzing its phenomenology within a specific territorial horizon, with the objective of uncovering social and pro-social aspects related to today’s forms of disobedience. The book therefore will appeal to students, scholars, and researchers of contemporary political theory, political science, democratization studies, social movement studies, criminology, legal theory, and moral philosophy.
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Definitions: Disobedience as a Form of Dissent and Resistance in Contemporary Times
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Democracy and Solidarity—Civil, Social and Prosocial Disobedience: Challenging Issues All over the World
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Contemporary Changes: Disobedience in Pandemic Times
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Liana M. Daher is a Full Professor of Sociology at the University of Catania (Italy), and Chair of the PhD program “Educational Processes, Theoretical-Transformational Models and Research Methods Applied to the Territory”. Her main research fields are social movements and collective behaviour, migration, and multicultural citizenship. She has taken part, both as principal investigator and member, in several national and European research projects. Currently, she serves as a scientific coordinator for the Horizon 2020 Project PARTICIPATION. Daher is past-president of the research committee RC48 (Social Movements, Collective Action and Social Change) of the International Sociological Association and Editor-in-chief of two book series ("Disembedding", by Aracne, and "Sociological Challenges", by Mimesis International). She has authored books, book chapters, and articles in Italian and international academic outlets.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Democratic Protests and New Forms of Collective Action
Book Subtitle: When Disobedience is Social
Editors: Liana Maria Daher
Series Title: Contributions to Political Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-44049-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-44048-9Published: 30 November 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-44051-9Due: 31 December 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-44049-6Published: 29 November 2023
Series ISSN: 2198-7289
Series E-ISSN: 2198-7297
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 262
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Political Theory, Political Sociology, Comparative Politics, Philosophy of Law, Educational Policy and Politics