Resistance Studies

klang December 7th, 2006

FROM THE RESISTANCE STUDIES NETWORK

The Resistance Studies Network Missionstatement

WORK IN PROGRESS (download, read and comment directly to the author, please)

Ongoing work by Stellan Vinthagen (comments to stellan. vinthagen @ resistancestudies. org) (type without spaces)

Transnational Movement Strategies

The Political Underground

New Wars and Nonviolent Resistance

Global Social Change From Below

Globalisering och motståndsrörelser

Om fredsbegreppet: Fred som Utopisk Rörelse

On Movement Culture and the Landless Movement in Brazil (MST)

Artikel om vad som gör Massolydnad möjligt (utifrån rörelseteori)

Ongoing work by Johan Söderberg (comments to johan. soderberg @ sts. gu. se) (type without spaces)

Hacking Capitalism

BOOKS

Klang, M. (2006) Disruptive Technology: Effects of Technology Regulation on Democracy, Doctoral Dissertation, Department of Applied IT, University of Göteborg. Available online here.

Klang, M. & Murray, A. (eds) (2005) Human Rights in the Digital Age, Cavendish Routledge.

Lilja, Mona (2000) Democracy and Power: Viewing Processes of Change and Resistance. Licentiate thesis. Department of Peace and Development Research, Göteborg University.

Vinthagen, Stellan (2005) Ickevåldsaktion – En social praktik av motstånd och konstruktion, Doctoral Dissertation, Department of Peace and Development Research, University of Göteborg. (Med Begreppskarta 1 och Begreppskarta 2). English abstract. (the book sold out but a reprint is planned, and can be borrowed from the Göteborg University library)

ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

Klang, M. (2006) “Controlling Online Information: Censorship and Cultural Protection”, in Hellström (ed) The World Summit on the Information Society, Uppsala: Collegium for Development Studies.

Klang, M. (2005) “Virtual Sit-Ins, Civil Disobedience and Cyberterrorism”, Klang, M. & Murray, A. (eds) Human Rights in the Digital Age, Cavendish Publishing, London.

Klang, M. (2004) “Civil Disobedience Online”, Journal of Information, Communication & Ethics in Society, Volume 2: Issue 2: Paper 2, Troubador Publishing.

Vinthagen, S. (forthcoming) ”Kommunikation i ett maktperspektiv” [Communication from a power perspective], in Fossum, Björn (ed.) Samtal och bemötande i vården – en bok om kommunikation, Studentlitteratur: Lund.

Vinthagen, S. (forthcoming) “Political Undergrounds: Can Raging Riots and Everyday Theft Become Politics of Normality?”, translated version will appear in Glänta, Göteborg.

Vinthagen, S. (2007) four entries on “Clamshell Alliance”, “Gandhi, Mahatma”, “Direct Action” and “Resistance” (with Mona Lilja) in Anderson, Gary L. & Herr, Kathryn (eds.) Encyklopedia of Activism and Social Justice, SAGE.

Vinthagen, S. (2007) “Rethinking Nonviolent Action and Contentious Politics: Political Cultures of Nonviolent Opposition in the Indian Independence Movement and Brazil’s Landless Workers Movement”, (together with Ass. Prof. Sean Chabot), Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change, Vol. 27, Elsevier Sciences/JAI Press, Oxford.

Vinthagen, S. (forthcoming) “Power as Subordination and Resistance as Disobedience: Nonviolent Movements and the Management of Power”, in Giri, Ananta Kumar (ed) The Modern Prince and the Modern Sage: Transforming Power and Freedom, Madras Institute of Development Studies & Aalborg University.

Vinthagen, S. (2006) “Power as Subordination and Resistance as Disobedience: Nonviolent Movements and the Management of Power”, pp. 1-21, Asian Journal of Social Science, 34:1.

Vinthagen, S. (2006) “Ickevåldsrörelsens samhällsgestaltning” [The Society Enactment of the Nonviolent Movement], pp. 321-352, in Wettergren, Åsa & Jamison, Andrew (eds) Socialar örelser – Politik och Kultur, Lund: Studentlitteratur.

Vinthagen, S. (2003) “Ickevåldsrörelsens idéhistoria” [The History of Ideas of the Nonviolent Movement], pp. 186-206, in Fronesis Nr. 11-12; Våld, LO-Tryckeriet, Stockholm.

Vinthagen, S. (2003) ”Motståndet mot den nya världsordningen” [The Resistance Against the New World Order], pp. 232-264, in Janne Flyghed & Magnus Hörnqvist (eds) Laglöst land, Ordfront, Stockholm.

Vinthagen, S. (2002) ”Motståndets globalisering” [The Globalisation of Resistance], pp. 240-263, in Mikael Löfgren & Masoud Vatankhah (eds) Vad hände med Sverige i Göteborg?, Ordfront Förlag, Stockholm.

Vinthagen, S. (2001) ”Makt och motstånd – Ickevåldsrörelsers hantering av makt i konflikter”, [Power and Resistance – Nonviolent Movements and the Management of Power in Conflicts] pp. 179-235, in Leif Eriksson & Björn Hettne (eds) Makt och internationella relationer, [Power and International Relations] Studentlitteratur, Lund.

Vinthagen, S. (2000) “Nonviolent Movements and Management of Power”, in Gandhi Marg, Vol. 22, No. 2, July-September, New Delhi, India.

Vinthagen, S. (1999) “Obedience is the Enemy”, in Peace News, No. 2435, May-August, London.

EVALUTATIONS & REPORTS

Vinthagen, S. (1998) Förberedelse för Motstånd – En kritik av plogbillsrörelsens förberedelsemetoder och inre konflikthantering, [Preparation for Resistance – A Critique of the Preparation Methods and Internal Conflict Management of the Plowshares Movement], book (107 pages) published by Omega Förlag and Stiftelsen för Fredsarbete, Göteborg.

Vinthagen, S. (1997) “Direkt demokratins svårigheter: En studie av den tyska Graswurzelrörelsen och dess organisation Graswurzelrevolution, Föderation Gewaltfreier Aktionsgruppen (FöGA)” [The Difficulties of Direct Democracy: A Study of the German Graswurzel Movement and its Organisation Graswurzelrevolution Föderation Gewaltfreier Aktionsgruppen (FöGA) ], BA-thesis in Sociology, Department of Sociology, Göteborg University.

Vinthagen, S. (1994) “An investigation of nonviolent action training and resistance to apartheid in South Africa”, written in Swedish for Omega Forum, Göteborg (two months field study).

OTHER MATERIAL

Klang, M (2006) “Vad händer när demokratin sätts pÃ¥ prov?” Krönika, GU Journalen, November.

Klang, M. & Sandklef, H. (2006) “Naiv tro på teknologi som brottsbekämpare”, Debatt, Göteborgs Posten, 24 January.

Kullenberg, Christopher (2006) “Vi har inget att oroa oss för”, Brännpunkt, Svenska Dagbladet, 6 August.

Kullenberg, Christopher (2006) “Bodström förlorar snart nätkontrollen“, Brännpunkt, Svenska Dagbladet, 20 August

Vinthagen, S. (2006) “Transnational Movement Strategies – Some Reflections”, seminar on Unarmed Resistance – The Transnational Factor, Coventry University, July 2006.

Vinthagen, S. (2006) New Global Wars a Challenge for Nonviolence, Swedish Peace Research Conference, Padrigu, Göteborg Uiversity, Sept.

Vinthagen, S. (2005) Globalising Nonviolence, War Resisters International, London. (in the Broken Rifle, shorter version).

Vinthagen, S. (2004) “From Techniques to Repertoires: Studying Nonviolent Action and Social Movements”, Paper presented (together with Ass. Prof. Sean Chabot) at the International Peace Research Association Conference (IPRA), Sapron, Hungary, July 2004.

Vinthagen, S. (2003) A Movement Culture of Nonviolent Action, Paper presented at the Swedish conference on development research (“Fattiga & Rika”), Lund University, January 2003.

Vinthagen, S. (2002:a, b & c) “The Sociology of Nonviolent Action”; “New Challenges of Nonviolent Action Research”; “The Relational and Constructionist Dynamics of Nonviolent Action” (together with Sean Chabot), three papers presented at the international research workshop on nonviolence research, Tromsö University, Norway, November 2002.

Vinthagen, S. (2001) “Towards the Globalisation of Globalisation – Structural Transformation through Dialogue or Confrontation”, Paper presented together with PhD Hans Abrahamsson at the international research RC 40/Expert Group on Development Initiative workshop on New Regionalisms and New/Old Security Issues, Göteborg University, Sweden, May 31-June 2 2001.

Vinthagen, S. (2001) “Globalisation from Below: Social Movements Trying to Influence Corporate Globalisation from Above”, presented at War Resisters International´s World Conference on Social Empowerment, India, February 2001 and at the Nordic Research Workshop “Rethinking Development Theory” by NORFA and Padrigu, Göteborg, Sweden, February 2001.

Vinthagen, S. (1998) “Maktbrytande och dialogunderlättande konflikthantering” [Power Breaking and Dialogue Facilitating Conflict Management], presented at Sociologiförbundets Ã¥rsmöte [The Annual Meeting of Sociologists] Göteborg Sweden, January 1998.

Vinthagen, S. (1997) “Symboler i rörelse – Om sociala rörelser som tilltal”, [Symbols in Movement – About Social Movements as Communication], BA-thesis in International relations, Peace and Development Research Institute, Göteborg University.

Vinthagen, Stellan (före 1997): Om Abortmotstånd och civil olydnad (Tidskriften Plogbillen), Om Djurens Befrielsefront, Antifacistisk Front och Syndikalistiska Ungdomsförbundets våldsmetoder (SACs medlemstidning Syndikalisten), Handbok för ickevåldsaktioner och civil olydnad (tillsammans med Per Herngren; Omega & Avrustningslägret i Linköping), Om Militant kamp och ickevåld (Anarkistisk Tidskrift), Om Solidaritetsarbete och motståndskamp (Tidskriften Plogbillen), Om Ickevåldskamp i Turkiket (Tidskriften Plogbillen).

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