Description
Democratic backsliding, increased great power competition, hate speech and violence, mass atrocities and genocides, civil wars, revolution and counter-revolution, reactionary movements against women's and minority rights, advancements in surveillance, censorship, and policing technologies, and war--the 21st century has become increasingly repressive and dangerous for political participation across the globe. At the same time, there has been increased protest and a proliferation of resistance movements. This seeming paradox has raised many questions among publics, academics, and policy makers, including: What motivates people to resist at the risk of their lives and livelihoods? What actions do people choose to resist repression and oppression and why, and when do resistance strategies change? What causes people to come together or fall out over whether and how to resist? When and why does resistance under repressive conditions escalate or fade away? This edited volume presents our current state of knowledge as well as new research and theorizing on these questions about the psychology of resistance in violent and repressive contexts. The chapters in this volume represent a broad range of diverse contexts and contemporary as well as historical experiences of repression, violence, and resistance in Africa, Asia, Europe, and South America--from cyberwars to civil wars, from police and state repression to pogroms and genocide. Taken together, this volume highlights the importance of considering the sociopolitical and historical contexts of resistance, the heterogeneity and complexity of psychological paths to resistance, and the variety of strategies people adopt to enact resistance to violence and repression.
Table of Contents
Introduction 1. The Psychology of Resistance in Violent and Repressive Contexts: Introduction to the VolumeJohanna Ray Vollhardt & Fouad Bou ZeineddineSection I: Resistance on the Streets: The Psychology of Protest in Violent, Repressive Contexts2. Social-Psychological Processes Underlying Collective Action in Repressive Contexts: What We Know and Ways Forward for Future ResearchArin H. Ayanian, Nicole Tausch, & Rim Saab3. Social Psychological Dynamics of Repression and Resistance to Repression: Insights from the October 2019 Lebanese UprisingRim Saab, Arin H. Ayanian, Aya Adra, & Vivienne Badaan 4. Macro-Level Repression and Micro-Level Paths to Political Resistance: A Dual Role FrameworkAya Adra & Mengyao Li5. Understanding Protest Violence: From Protesters' to Non-Participants' Support for Protest ViolencePatricio Saavedra & John Drury6. Political Resistance in Turkey: How Resistance is Experienced and How it has Changed Over the Last DecadeYasemin Gülsüm Acar, Özden Melis Ulug, Nevin Solak, & Ercan SenSection 2: Resistance off the Streets: The Psychology of Resistance Strategies Beyond Protest7. The Manifold Faces of Political Resistance: The Woman, Life, Freedom MovementNima Orazani & Ali Teymoori 8. The Kurdish Struggle: Multiple Ways of Resisting in a Historically Oppressive ContextHelin Ünal & Canan Coskan9. Jewish Resistance during the Holocaust: Influences on the Choice between Individual and Collective Resistance StrategiesJohanna Ray Vollhardt & Michal Bilewicz10. Digital Interfaces of Repression and Resistance Joshua Uyheng & Cristina Jayme MontielSection III: Resistance Situated: The Dynamic Psychology of Resistance in Repressive and Violent Contexts11. Expanding the Timeline of Resistance: Actively Including the Before in the Analysis of the Revolution in SudanSigrun Marie Moss & Ubai Kamal Elgizouli12. Some Critical Notes on the Context and Psychology of Palestinian Resistance: An Interview with Dr. Mai Albzour Mai Albzour, with Fouad Bou Zeineddine (interviewer, translator, and editor) & Johanna Ray Vollhardt (interviewer and editor)13. The Dynamics of Leadership and Resistance in Repressive Regimes: The Cases of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic and Polish People's RepublicKlara Jurstakova, Evangelos Ntontis, & Dennis Nigbur14. Gendering Democratic Resistance to Authoritarianism: Leni Robredo's Presidential CampaignCristina Jayme Montiel, Junix Jerald I. Delos Santos, & Joshua Uyheng 15. "They Should Take Care of Themselves, We Have Our Own Problems!": The Challenges of Sympathetic Resistance in Multi-Ethnic Authoritarian ContextsGustave Adolphe Messanga, Hermann Kevin Ekango Nzekaih, Willy Taffo Nemboué, Sonia Npiane Ngongueu, Sylvestre Nzeuta Lontio, Pamela Fotso Magne, & Donald Brice Yoh FopaV. Conclusion16. The Psychology of Resistance in Violent and Repressive Contexts: A Conclusion and a BeginningFouad Bou Zeineddine & Johanna Ray Vollhardt
