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"The world is out of joint, so much so that disobeying should be an urgent question for everyone. In this provocative essay, Frédéric Gros explores the roots of political obedience. Social conformity, economic subjection, respect for authorities, constitutional consensus? Examining the various styles of obedience provides tools to study, invent and induce new forms of civic disobedience and lyrical protest. Nothing can be taken for granted: neither supposed certainties nor social conventions, economic injustice or moral conviction. Thinking philosophically requires us never to accept truths and generalities that seem obvious. It restores a sense of political responsibility. At a time when the decisions of experts are presented as the result of icy statistics and anonymous calculations, disobeying becomes an assertion of humanity. To philosophize is to disobey. This book is a call for critical democracy and ethical resistance"--

}Because of the American tradition of self-government and mistrust of administration, city-management professionals face difficulty in securing citizen acceptance of their roles. This is a particularly acute problem in the city manager form of local government because the manager is highly visible as the non-elected executive head of the agency. This paper argues that community resistance to the role of the local government general management professional is caused largely by a fear of loss of personal access or influence over governance, in essence, a conflict between the value of identification with community and the value of rational administration. The future of city management and local government professionalism generally may depend on an ability to adapt the premises of rational, scientifically based administration to the realities of the citizen's need for a sense of identification with a political and social community.

Intro -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Maps -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Civil Resistance in Contexts of Violent Conflict in Latin America-Leveraging Power to Defend One's Rights -- Campaign Objectives -- Campaign Opponents -- Civil Resistance Strategies and Methods -- Notes on Methodology -- Book Structure -- References -- Chapter 2: The Civil Resistance of Yaqui and Guarijio in Sonora, Mexico: Meanings, Scope and Challenges -- The Context -- The Yaqui Tribe: Transition from Violent to Nonviolent Resistance -- The Guarijio Tribe: Transition from Passive to Civil Resistance -- The Civil Resistance of the Yaqui and Guarijio Tribes -- The Civil Resistance of the Yaqui -- The Civil Resistance of the Guarijio -- Yaqui and Guarijio Civil Resistance in Defence of Their Water Resources -- The Yaqui Civil Resistance Against the Independence Aqueduct -- The Guarijio Civil Resistance Against the Pilares Dam -- Key Factors That Can Explain the Outcomes of the Yaqui and Guarijio Civil Resistance Campaigns -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 3: A Rebellion of Spirituality: On the Power of Indigenous Civil Resistance in Honduras -- COPINH Success: Amidst Harsh Repression -- Origins: Hope in a Historical Moment -- Popular Education and Communication: Collective Re/Learning in Action -- Networks: National, Regional and International Advocacy -- Ancestral Force: What Keeps Us Going -- Spacetime: Fluidity, Memory and Place -- Rebellion of Spirituality: Indigenous Spiritual Practice as Political Resistance -- Moral Certainty: Beyond Imagining -- Creative Spontaneity: Generating Joy -- A Fire That Does Not Die -- References -- Chapter 4: Qué Diría Carlos? The 'No al Canal' Movement and the Rhetoric of Resistance to Nicaragua's 'Grand Canal'.

A global and multidisciplinary exploration of contemporary resistance. Leading researchers from around the world link theory to the realities of Occupy, Indignados, the Tea Party, the Arab Spring, Anonymous and more.

Intro -- A Note of Thanks -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- VI -- VII -- VIII -- IX -- X -- XI -- References -- Chapter 2: The Disease of Gigantism -- Tryst with Destiny -- Taming of the Mahanadi -- Dam as a Cure of All Maladies -- Disbelief, Hope and Despair -- Broken Promises -- The Exodus -- The Story of Unending Misery -- The Supreme Sacrifice -- References -- Chapter 3: What the King Gave Happily -- And Quiet Flows the Brahmani -- Taming the Turbulent Brahmani -- Threading the Rengali Resistance -- Thrown into the Wilderness -- Living on the Edge -- The Saga of Endless Struggle, Endless Misery -- References -- Chapter 4: Jai Gandhamardan -- The Myth-Laden Mountain -- BALCO Sneaks In -- The Moment of Reckoning -- The Simmering Rebellion -- The NSS Camp -- Visit of the Himalayan Sadhu -- The Theatre of the Oppressed -- The Andolan Intensifies -- The Bauxite in the Belly -- References -- Chapter 5: The Conch and the Missile -- A Gift -- The Conch -- The Betel -- The Missile -- Janata Curfew -- The Laxman Rekha -- Art in Resistance -- Death of a Leader -- References -- Chapter 6: Chilika Teere -- Contending Claims -- To Whom Does Chilika Belong -- Resisting Tata -- Stranglehold of Outsiders Tightens -- Police Firing at Sorana -- The Choking of Chilika -- The Uncertain Future -- References -- Chapter 7: The Kia in Rage -- The Story of Kewda -- A Morning in the Land of Kia Flowers -- TISCO and People's Resistance -- Police Firing in Chatrapur -- Sindhigaon Under Siege -- Lives Rehabilitated -- The Long Wait -- Jai Titanium -- References -- Chapter 8: The Song of the Mali -- Fragility of Subsistence and Welfare Work -- Earthworms Rise in the Black Shadow of Companies -- March for the Mali -- Company's Trick: All Party Development Committee -- Kashipur Developed into Martyrdom -- The Commission of Enquiry.

For 100 days in 1994, genocide engulfed Rwanda. Since then, many in the international community have praised the country's postgenocide government for its efforts to foster national unity and reconciliation by downplaying ethnic differences and promoting "one Rwanda for all Rwandans." Examining how ordinary rural Rwandans experience and view these policies, this book challenges the conventional wisdom on postgenocide Rwanda. The author finds that many of Rwanda's poorest citizens distrust the local officials charged with implementing the state program and believe that it ignores the deepest problems of the countryside: lack of land, jobs, and a voice in policies that affect lives and livelihoods. Based on interviews with dozens of Rwandan peasants and government officials, this book reveals how the nation's disenfranchised poor have been engaging in everyday resistance, cautiously and carefully - "whispering" their truth to the powers that be. This quiet opposition, the author argues, suggests that some of the nation's most celebrated postgenocide policies have failed to garner the grassroots support needed to sustain peace.--publisher's description