Histories of Civil Resistance
Jessica
On Monday 18th March we're honoured to be hosting a virtual event with Lynne Jones, child psychiatrist, WHO and UNICEF consultant, and author of acclaimed books including Outside the Asylum and Then They Started Shooting. In the new Sorry for the Inconvenience But This Is an Emergency : The Nonviolent Struggle for Our Planet's Future, she brings a lifetime of learning through activism to our current moment of climate collapse, asking urgent questions about what we mean by non-violent resistance and what kind of actions are most effective in different contexts.
With the violence of climate distaster hitting the most vulnerable first and worst, and intersecting crises of health, inequality and environment enforcing each other, we need to throw everything we have, and all available knowledge, into the struggle ahead.
To expand on the threads in Lynne's book. and taking inspiration from it, we've put together a list of books exploring some of the histories of non-violent struggle, including books that question its limits and reframe its definition.
Join the conversation with Lynne Jones online on March 18th at 7pm! Book your slot HERE.
Linked Books
![Image for Outside the Asylum : A Memoir of War, Disaster and Humanitarian Psychiatry](https://jackets.gardners.com/media/640/97814746/9781474605762.jpg)
- title
- Outside the Asylum : A Memoir of War, Disaster and Humanitarian Psychiatry
- author
- Jones, Lynne
![Image for Sorry for the Inconvenience But This Is an Emergency : The Nonviolent Struggle for Our Planet's Future](https://jackets.dmmserver.com/media/356/97819117/9781911723035.jpg)
- title
- Sorry for the Inconvenience But This Is an Emergency : The Nonviolent Struggle for Our Planet's Future
- author
- Lynne Jones
![Image for Then They Started Shooting: Children of the Bosnian War and the Adults They Become](https://jackets.dmmserver.com/media/356/97819341/9781934137666.jpg)
- title
- Then They Started Shooting: Children of the Bosnian War and the Adults They Become
- author
- Lynne Jones
![Image for This is an Uprising](https://jackets.dmmserver.com/media/356/97815685/9781568585703.jpg)
- title
- This is an Uprising
- author
- Mark Engler
![Image for Roads, Runways and Resistance : From the Newbury Bypass to Extinction Rebellion](https://jackets.gardners.com/media/640/97807453/9780745340593.jpg)
- title
- Roads, Runways and Resistance : From the Newbury Bypass to Extinction Rebellion
- author
- Melia, Steve
![Image for Direct Action : Protest and the Reinvention of American Radicalism](https://jackets.gardners.com/media/640/97817847/9781784784096.jpg)
- title
- Direct Action : Protest and the Reinvention of American Radicalism
- author
- Kauffman, L. A.
![Image for Blueprint for Revolution : how to use rice pudding, Lego men, and other non-violent techniques to galvanise communities, overthrow dictators, or simply change the world](https://jackets.gardners.com/media/640/97819222/9781922247872.jpg)
- title
- Blueprint for Revolution : how to use rice pudding, Lego men, and other non-violent techniques to galvanise communities, overthrow dictators, or simply change the world
- author
- Popovic, Srdja, Miller, Matthew
![Image for Cnd At 60 : Britain's Most Enduring Mass Movement](https://jackets.gardners.com/media/640/97809955/9780995535244.jpg)
- title
- Cnd At 60 : Britain's Most Enduring Mass Movement
- author
- Hudson, Kate
![Image for Out of the Darkness : Greenham Voices 1981-2000](https://jackets.gardners.com/media/640/97807509/9780750995177.jpg)
- title
- Out of the Darkness : Greenham Voices 1981-2000
- author
- Kerrow, Kate, Mordan, Rebecca, Armstrong, Frankie
![Image for We Are Power: How Nonviolent Activism Changes the World](https://jackets.gardners.com/media/640/97814197/9781419760105.jpg)
- title
- We Are Power: How Nonviolent Activism Changes the World
- author
- Hasak-Lowy, Todd
![Image for How to Blow Up a Pipeline : Learning to Fight in a World on Fire](https://jackets.gardners.com/media/640/97818397/9781839760259.jpg)
- title
- How to Blow Up a Pipeline : Learning to Fight in a World on Fire
- author
- Malm, Andreas
![Image for The Force of Nonviolence : An Ethico-Political Bind](https://jackets.gardners.com/media/640/97817887/9781788732772.jpg)
- title
- The Force of Nonviolence : An Ethico-Political Bind
- author
- Butler, Judith
![Image for Occupy](https://jackets.gardners.com/media/640/97802419/9780241964019.jpg)
- title
- Occupy
- author
- Chomsky, Noam
![Image for The Long '68 : Radical Protest and Its Enemies](https://jackets.gardners.com/media/640/97801419/9780141982526.jpg)
- title
- The Long '68 : Radical Protest and Its Enemies
- author
- Vinen, Richard
![Image for If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution : 'as good as journalism gets' - Rob Delaney](https://jackets.gardners.com/media/640/97810354/9781035412273.jpg)
- title
- If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution : 'as good as journalism gets' - Rob Delaney
- author
- Bevins, Vincent