This book questions the complex relationship between social movements and violence, and shows how and why violence occurs or does not, and what different meanings it can take.

Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsList of Abbreviations, Organizations, and PartiesIntroduction to Breaking LawsPart 1Revolutionary Violence: Experiences of Armed Struggle in France, Germany, Japan, Italy and the United StatesIsabelle SommierTranslated by Marina Urquidi1. Introduction to Part 1: Revolutionary Violence in Context2. A Subject ConcealedViolence and Social Movements: Fragmented Analytic TraditionsDistinguishing Terrorism and Revolutionary ViolenceThe Silence Surrounding 1968The '1968 years', a cycle of protest3. A Revolutionary Period?The International ContextThe Student RevoltsThe United StatesJapanGermanyFrance and ItalyThe Generational Dimension of RevoltThe Growth of the Extreme LeftThe United StatesJapanGermanyFranceItalyThe Autonomous Movement4. Radicalization ProcessesRepression and Counter-MovementsGermanyItalyJapanThe United StatesCompetition and Mutual InfluencesThe United StatesItalyJapanFranceSocial IsolationGermanyHigh-Risk Commitment and the Logics of Clandestine Action5. Strategies of ViolencePropaganda of the DeedThe United StatesJapanFranceResistance and Urban Guerrilla WarfareGermanyItalyThe Insurrectionary Model: Taking the Attack to the Heart of the StateGermanyAnti-Imperialism and the Transnationalization of ActionsGermanyFranceJapan6. The End of a CycleAnti-Terrorist PoliciesThe United StatesJapanFranceGermanyItalyA Farewell to Arms GermanyItalyFrance7. Conclusion to Part 1Part 2Civil DisobedienceGraeme Hayes and Sylvie Ollitrault8. Introduction to Part 2: Civil Disobedience in Perspective9. Definitions, Dynamics, DevelopmentsTheorising Civil DisobedienceConscience and collective action, direct and indirect disobedience'Performative' Civil Disobedience Direct and indirect disobedience reconsideredConceptual Distinctions in Historical OverviewQuakerismHenry David Thoreau (1817-1862)Satyagraha according to GandhiThe US Civil Rights Movement (1955-65)Conclusion10. Contemporary Movements: Genealogies and JustificationsCivil Disobedience in FranceThe cultural importance of manifestoesConscientious objection and anti-militarismFrom Larzac to Notre Dame des LandesCivil Disobedience and Urgency Action and emergencyUrgency and environmental disobedienceUrgency and undocumented migrantsDisobedience and neo-liberal globalizationGlobal JusticeProfessional identitiesConclusion11. Repertoires of Civil DisobedienceThe Constraints of Illegal ActionDisobedience as activist techniqueCivil Disobedience and Media RepresentationGreenpeace, reporters of their own actionCriminal ProsecutionTrials as political arenasCivil disobedience and prosecution: the case of the GANVANetworks of CommitmentConclusion12. Negotiating the Boundaries of Violence and Non-ViolenceProperty DestructionPloughshares Seeds of Hope'Pro-life' direct actionThe Effects of Direct ActionThe INRA Colmar crop destructionAnti-abortion clinic activismStaging ActionCare and symbolism in actionThe Relational Logic of HarmsThe Semantic Construction of the CivicConclusion13. Conclusion to Part 2Biographical notesGermanyFranceItalyThe United StatesJapanBibliographyEndnotesIndex