Resistence in Practice
Please write a 1000 word paper that should look at how ideas and methods of resistance are translated into political action. What are the modalities, costs and consequences of this process?. look at The Islamic Resistance in Gaza (Hamas) instances of resistance to political authority and examine the techniques of resistance employed, the assumptions that underpin these techniques, and the tensions and problems that arise as ideas are actualised in political reality. Please look at the documents i will upload aand use resources from the list below
1) Soelle, D. The Silent Cry: Mysticism and Resistance (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2001), especially Part III: Mysticism is Resistance, pp.189-302
2) Soelle, D. Essential Writings (Mary Knoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2006), Part I: A Different Experience: Power and Mysticism, and Part II: A Different Journey: Suffering and Resistance
3) Gutierrez, G. A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics and Salvation (London: SCM Press, 1988), Chapter Eleven: Eschatology and Politics
4) Rowland, C. (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Liberation Theology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2nd ed. 2007), especially Chapter 1: The Task and Content of Liberation Theology by G. Gutierrez (available as ebook via the Templeman Library website)
5) Gandhi, M. The Essential Writings (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), Section V: Non-Violence as Political Action, pp.309-371
6) Gandhi, M. An Autobiography or: The Story of My Experiments with Truth (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1982)
7)Brown, J. and Anthony Parel (eds) The Cambridge Companion to Gandhi (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011) (available as ebook via the Templeman Library website)
8) Gene Sharp, From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation, 4th ed. 2010, available from the Albert Einstein Institute at http://www.aeinstein.org/organizations/org/FDTD.pdf
9) Ruaridh Arrow, How to Start a Revolution, award-winning documentary film on Gene Sharp and his influence, 2011, available on DVD and as an IPad app, and excerpts are available on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr8McZ6zhuw
10) Gene Sharp, “The Power and Potential of Nonviolent Struggle”, a speech given by Sharp in 1990, available at
11) Martin Luther King, Jr. I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches that Changed the World, ed. by James M. Washington (New York: HaperCollins, 40th ed. 1992), texts 3,5,7 and 15
12) Nelson Mandela, “A Land Ruled by the Gun”, in Mandela, No Easy Walk to Freedom, ed. by Ato Quayson (London: Penguin, 2002), text 13, pp.91-102, also available online at http://www.blackpast.org/?q=1962-nelson-mandela-address-conference-pan-african-freedom-movement-east-and-central-africa
13) Ahadi, A.S. The Green Wave, documentary-collage/motion-comic, 2011
14) Kamalipour, Y.R. Media, Power and Politics in the Digital Age: The 2009 Presidential Election Uprising in Iran (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2010)
15) Offe, C. “New social movements: challenging the boundaries of institutional politics”, in Social Research 52:4 (Winter 1985), pp.817-868 (available online via the Templan Library website)
16) Pleyers, G. Alter-Globalization. Becoming Actors in the Global Age (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2010)
17) Polet, F. Clés de lecture de l’alter-mondialisation (Louvain la Neuve: CETRI, 2009)
18) Scott, J.C. Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1985)
19) any literature by Dr. Chomsky
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