The aim of this article is to describe the institution of civil disobedience as a type of action
that can be subsumed under the category of Norbert Elias'“civilization.” The first thesis I aim …

This article offers a general framework for thinking about civil disobedience as
transformative political action. Positing authority as the mode of power corresponding to …

I intend this piece as an invitation to think through civil disobedience as a strategy for social
transformation and, more specifically, to rethink its significance for revolutionary political …

Civil disobedience is ethically motivated law-breaking within a political context, and the
specific political context to which it belongs is that of a “democratic project” that shapes and …

Across the political spectrum, many people—journalists, politicians, but also activists and
theorists—seem to think there is something fundamentally wrong with civil disobedience …

In modern liberal democracies, politically motivated disobedience of the law is generally
tolerated as a way of challenging and changing social and legal practices. This paper …

An impressive body of recent literature posits that traditional notions of civil disobedience
prevent us from properly considering potentially legitimate types of 'uncivil'political …

The article discusses an emerging theoretical shift on civil disobedience in the US as of
2015. Topics covered include the anti-legal turn on the recognition of civil disobedience as a …

Love is a key concept in the theory and history of civil disobedience yet it has been
purposefully neglected in recent debates in political theory. Through an examination of …

The goal of this article is to show that mainstream liberal accounts of civil disobedience fail
to fully capture the latter's specific characteristics as a genuinely political and democratic …