Revolt against authority / / by Laura Westra.

Protesters and mass demonstrations by citizens of many democratic countries are increasingly daily occurrences reported in today's news media. These protests are often considered to be illegal or are charged with disrupting the peace, and even when they are non-violent assemblies they are attac...

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Superior document:Studies in Critical Social Sciences, Volume 65
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2014.
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:Studies in critical social sciences ; Volume 65.
Physical Description:1 online resource (291 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction
  • Introduction to the Authority of Law and Social Protest
  • The Occupy Wall Street Movement: Attack in a “Lawless” World?
  • Non-Governmental Organizations and Social Movements: Substance and Roles
  • International Citizenship under Siege
  • The Limits of the Power of ingos, Social Movements, and Associations, and the Authority of Law
  • Victims of “Non-Intimate Violence” and the Law
  • Victims of Human Rights Law and of Legal Persons: Where Justice and Equal Rights Do not Apply
  • Victims of Legal Bombardments, Drone Attacks and Other Forms of Collateralism
  • Responsibility to Protect or Obligation to Prevent: Whose Responsibility?
  • Current Changes and Concluding Thoughts
  • Appendix I Cases
  • Appendix II Documents
  • References
  • Index.