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Summary The label civil disobedience encompasses acts of law-defiance which are deemed to be compatible with core principles of a liberal democracy, e.g. a commitment to the rule of law. Civil disobedience is usually considered a justifiable form of illegal conduct, aiming to further dialogue in society around issues of justice. The debate on civil disobedience concerns, among other issues, whether civil disobedience must be nonviolent and/or imply a willing submission to the legal punishment, and the appropriate legal response to this form of illegal conduct. 
Key works Rawls 2005 and Raz 1979 set the foundations for early debates on the topic. More recently, Brownlee 2012, Delmas 2018, Moraro 2019 have reassessed and restated some of the core issues, highlighting the limitations of the Rawlsian model.
Introductions The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy page on Civil Disobedience compiled by Brownlee & Delmas 2021. For a more recent introduction, see Delmas 2016
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  1. The Epistemic Dimensions of Civil Disobedience.Alexander Bryan - forthcoming - Journal of Political Philosophy.
  2. Just Disobedience: An Answer to the Question,“Is It Ever Just to Disobey a Law?”.Mike Cameron - forthcoming - Canadian Undergraduate Philosophy Journal Revue Canadienne de Philosophie Étudiante.
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  3. Prof. Balibar’s X-Mutant Transindividuals: Civic Disobedience in the Birmingham Philosophy Guild.Joshua M. Hall - forthcoming - Culture and Dialogue.
    As I have explored elsewhere, the Birmingham Philosophy Guild, which my former students and I re-founded in 2012, is a team of community members who engage in theoretical discussion, support group self-cultivation, and community activism. To further promote the guild as a catalyst for progressive social change, the present article connects it to both the popular cultural phenomenon of the “X-Men” – to make the guild more appealing to students and laypeople – and to the cutting-edge contemporary French philosophy of (...)
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  4. Suicide as Protest.Antti Kauppinen - forthcoming - In Michael Cholbi & Paolo Stellino, Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Suicide. Oxford University Press.
    While suicide is typically associated with personal despair, people do sometimes kill themselves in the hope or expectation that their death will advance a political cause by way of its impact on the conscience of others, or in extreme cases simply as an expression of protest against a status quo felt to be unjust. Paradigm cases of such protest suicide may be public acts of self-immolation. This chapter distinguishes between instrumental and expressive protest suicide, examines the possible motivations behind them, (...)
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  5. Sit-ins, Blockades, and Lock-ons: Do Protesters Commit Moral Blackmail?Ten-Herng Lai - forthcoming - Analysis.
    Sit-ins, blockades, and lock-ons are common protest tactics. They work partly because continuing the operation or attempting quickly to remove activists risks injuring or killing them. Injuring or killing the activists is morally wrong, so the targets of the protest must (temporarily) yield to the activists. This appears to be a case of moral blackmail: The blackmailer makes it so that the blackmailed must either do what the blackmailer wants or do something morally wrong. Here, protestors appear to exploit the (...)
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  6. Three questions for liberals.Richard Pettigrew - forthcoming - Social Research: An International Quarterly.
    In this paper, I ask three questions of the liberal. In each, I fill in philosophical detail around a certain sort of complaint raised in current public debates about their position. In the first, I probe the limits of the liberal's tolerance for civil disobedience; in the second, I ask how the liberal can adjudicate the most divisive moral disputes of the age; and, in the third, I suggest the liberal faces a problem when there is substantial disagreement about the (...)
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  7. Criminalising (cubes of) truth: animal advocacy, civil disobedience, and the politics of sight.Serrin Rutledge-Prior - forthcoming - Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy:1-25.
    Should animal advocates be allowed to publicly display graphic footage of how animals live (and die) in industrial animal use facilities? Cube of truth (‘cube’) demonstrations are a form of animal advocacy aimed at informing the public about the realities of animals’ experiences in places such as slaughterhouses, feedlots, and research facilities, by showing footage of mostly lawful practices within these workplaces. Activists engaging in cube-style protests have recently been targeted by law enforcement agencies in two Australian states on the (...)
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  8. (1 other version)Resisting in Times of Law and Order: Civil Disobedience, American Conservatism, and the War on Crime.Eraldo Souza dos Santos - forthcoming - Jahrbuch für Recht Und Ethik/Annual Review of Law and Ethics.
    The history of civil disobedience until the 1960s is, historians and political theorists have shown, the history of a fundamentally anticolonial, anticapitalistic, and antimilitaristic political practice. This history was progressively erased from our political imagination as the phrase was reconceptualized by American liberal lawyers and scholars in the late-1960s and early-1970s. These liberals argued that civil disobedience was not a revolutionary but an essentially reformist form of action, at a time when social movements were accused of endangering American democracy amidst (...)
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  9. Slow codes as ethical disobedience.Jason Adam Wasserman - forthcoming - Bioethics.
    KEY: Patients or families sometimes demand interventions that are of no benefit or are even harmful. Even in cases where cardiopulmonary resuscitation is futile or medically inappropriate, instituting a do not attempt resuscitation order requires either consent of the patient or family, or working through a cumbersome and conflictual institutional process to change code status over their objection. Sometimes they contest these decisions in court and sometimes they win. Avoiding such conflicts gave rise to the practice of “slow codes,” a (...)
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  10. The Nature, Ethics, and Politics of Uncivil Obedience.Jennifer Kling - 2025 - Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence 3:1-31.
    Uncivil obedience, also sometimes called malicious compliance, has the potential to be a galvanizing force for political change. Historically, it played a key role in many 20th century labor movements, and is still used today by both individuals and more organized activist groups. Despite this, uncivil obedience is less often a topic of philosophical discussion than its more well-known cousin, civil disobedience. In particular, uncivil obedience’s relationship to violence is almost entirely unexplored. In this paper, I outline the necessary conditions (...)
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  11. Racist Monuments: The Beauty is the Beast.Ten-Herng Lai - 2025 - The Journal of Ethics 29 (1):21-41.
    While much has been said about what ought to be done about the statues and monuments of racist, colonial, and oppressive figures, a significantly undertheorised aspect of the debate is the aesthetics of commemorations. I believe that this philosophical oversight is rather unfortunate. I contend that taking the aesthetic value of commemorations seriously can help us a) better understand how and the extent to which objectionable commemorations are objectionable, b) properly formulate responses to aesthetic defences of objectionable commemorations, and c) (...)
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  12. Decarcerating Civil Disobedience: Punishment, Policing, and the Problem of Innocence.Livingston Alexander - 2024 - In Duncan Ivison, Research Handbook on Liberalism. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. pp. 254-274.
    Drawing on James Tully’s dialogical reconstruction of political theory as a critical activity, this chapter proposes to take the disconnect between theory and practice as an occasion to loosen the grip of a particular image of disobedience holding both liberals and their critics captive. Liberal political thought approaches civil disobedience as a problem of justification: namely, as a challenge of reconciling conflicting obligations to conscience and obligations to law where injustice causes the two to diverge. Recent criticisms of the liberal (...)
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  13. Legitimacy Revisited: Moral Power and Civil Disobedience.Arthur Isak Applbaum - 2024 - Moral Philosophy and Politics 11 (1):87-112.
    InLegitimacy: The Right to Rule in a Wanton World, I offer both a conceptual analysis of legitimacy, the power-liability view, and a substantive moral theory, the free group agency view. Here, I defend my account against three challenges brought by Kjarsten Mikalsen. First, though I argue that conceptual analysis should not prematurely close open moral questions, it is not my view that conceptual analysis must have no substantive implications. Second, though I acknowledge that free group agencyordinarilysupports a moral duty to (...)
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  14. The Logic of Kingian Nonviolence: A Synthetic Reading of Martin Luther King Jr.'s Political Thought.Nicholas Buck - 2024 - Journal of Religious Ethics 52 (1):26-49.
    Approaching Martin Luther King Jr. as a constructive political theorist, I present a synthetic view of his thought that is able to make cogent and compelling sense of prominent concepts and lines of reasoning in his writings. I contend that King's political thought, which is grounded in his moral, metaphysical, and theological convictions, is best understood as structurally teleological and oriented to the construction of an inclusive, democratic community as its end. To make this case and fill out the picture (...)
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  15. Privileged Citizens and the Right to Riot.Thomas Carnes - 2024 - Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 26 (3):633-640.
    Avia Pasternak’s account of permissible political rioting includes a constraint that insists only oppressed citizens, and not privileged citizens, are permitted to riot when rioting is justified. This discussion note argues that Pasternak’s account, with which I largely agree, should be expanded to admit the permissibility of privileged citizens rioting alongside and in solidarity with oppressed citizens. The permissibility of privileged citizens participating in riots when rioting is justified is grounded in the notions that it is sometimes necessary, in accordance (...)
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  16. Violence Against Persons, Political Commitment, and Civil Disobedience: A Reply to Adams.Thomas Carnes - 2024 - Res Publica 30 (4):865-871.
  17. Disobedience as Such.Vincent Chiao & Alon Harel - 2024 - Jurisprudence 15 (4):497-514.
    Legal philosophers often ask whether a person has a reason to obey the law simply because it is the law. We ask the contrary question: does a person have a reason to disobey the law simply because it is the law? Many philosophers who have considered the question of disobedience have focused on injustice; others have defended disobedience on libertarian or anarchist grounds. In contrast, we argue that there is a content-independent reason to disobey the law even when it is (...)
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  18. The Role of Civility in Political Disobedience.Steve Coyne - 2024 - Philosophy and Public Affairs 52 (2):221-250.
    Philosophy &Public Affairs, Volume 52, Issue 2, Page 221-250, Spring 2024.
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  19. Civil Disobedience: A Phenomenological Approach.Steffen Herrmann - 2024 - Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 55 (1):61-76.
    In this paper, I discuss three objections against climate activism often voiced in the public, namely that their practices of civil disobedience are ultimately insincere, illegal, and ineffective. The main part of my paper focuses on this last point. This is because this objection points us to a deeper conceptual problem of political protest: if one of the conditions for the success of civil disobedience is that political demands must have been first voiced via democratic channels of opinion-formation, then why (...)
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  20. Defining norms of civility: Disobedience as protest.Manohar Kumar - 2024 - In Arundhati Virmani, Jean Boutier & Manohar Kumar, Social Scientists in the Civic Space: Ethical Perspectives on Democratic Involvement. Routledge India.
    There has been a recent spike in interest in the concept of incivility in political theory. The question is: when are democratic citizens justified in engaging in uncivil behaviour with their fellow citizens? This turn reflects an anguish against the constraints of morality on political action. This chapter takes issue with the turn towards incivility within democratic theory, using the case of civil disobedience to highlight its limitations. It discusses the concept of civility and its role in a democracy, showing (...)
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  21. Conscience, Disobedience, and Standard of Care.Stephen R. Latham - 2024 - Hastings Center Report 54 (4):10-12.
    In the article “Principled Conscientious Provision: Referral Symmetry and Its Implications for Protecting Secular Conscience,” Abram L. Brummett, Tanner Hafen, and Mark C. Navin reject what they call the “referral asymmetry” in U.S. conscientious objection law in medicine, which recognizes rights of conscientiously objecting physicians to withhold referrals for medical interventions but does not (yet) recognize rights of physicians to make referrals for medical interventions to which they are morally committed but to which their health care institutions are morally opposed. (...)
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  22. Clarifying our duties to resist.Chong-Ming Lim - 2024 - Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 67 (9):3527-3546.
    According to a prominent argument, citizens in unjust societies have a duty to resist injustice. The moral and political principles that ground the duty to obey the law in just or nearly just conditions, also ground the duty to resist in unjust conditions. This argument is often applied to a variety of unjust conditions. In this essay, I critically examine this argument, focusing on conditions involving institutionally entrenched and socially normalised injustice. In such conditions, the issue of citizens’ duties to (...)
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  23. How to Read a Riot.Ricky Mouser - 2024 - Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 26 (3):445-468.
    How should we think about public rioting for political ends? Might it ever be more than morally excusable behavior? In this essay, I show how political rioting can sometimes be positively morally justified as an intermediate defensive harm in between civilly disobedient protest and political revolution. I do so by reading political rioters as, at the same time, uncivil and ultimately conciliatory with their state. Unlike civilly disobedient protestors, political rioters express a lack of faith in the value or applicability (...)
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  24. Retheorising Civil Disobedience in the Context of the Marginalised.Simon Stevens - 2024 - Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory 71 (178):1-23.
    This article proposes a retheorisation of Rawlsian civil disobedience through examining the burdens we expect people to bear when they practice civil disobedience, focussing specifically on marginalised groups. First, I consider public concerns over civil disobedience, to elicit the idea of an ‘authentic civil disobedience’. I then assess the claim that civil disobedience occurs within a ‘nearly just’ society in order to recognise the more complex position of marginalised civil disobedients. This allows me to frame any criteria we theorise for (...)
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  25. Can Climate Civil Disobedience be Justified?Douglas Bamford - 2023 - Think 22 (64):65-70.
    Some people have engaged in acts of civil disobedience to protest against the climate policies of their governments and corporations. This article argues that these disobedient actions are justified at present since governments fail to do all they reasonably can to respond to this pressing issue.
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  26. Artistic, Artworld, and Aesthetic Disobedience.Adam Burgos & Sheila Lintott - 2023 - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 81 (2):173-187.
    Jonathan Neufeld proposes a concept of aesthetic disobedience that parallels the political concept of civil disobedience articulated by John Rawls in A Theory of Justice. The artistic transgressions he calls aesthetic disobedience are distinctive in being public and deliberative in their aim to bring about specific changes in accepted artworld norms. We argue that Neufeld has offered us valuable insight into the dynamic and potent nature of art and the artworld; however, we contend that Neufeld errs by constraining aesthetic disobedience (...)
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  27. Learning from the Streets? Civil Disobedience in Theory and Practice.Robin Celikates - 2023 - In Dimitrios Karmis & Jocelyn Maclure, Civic Freedom in an Age of Diversity: The Public Philosophy of James Tully. McGill-Queen's University Press. pp. 103-122.
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  28. Strikes, civil rights, and radical disobedience: From King to Debs and back.Alex Gourevitch - 2023 - Contemporary Political Theory 22 (2):143-164.
    Recent scholarship has insisted on a more historically attentive approach to civil disobedience. This article follows their lead by arguing that the dominant understanding of civil disobedience relies on a conceptual confusion and a historical mistake. Conceptually, the literature fails to distinguish between violating a law and defying the authority of a legal order. Historically, the literature misreads the exemplary case of Martin Luther King Jr. in Birmingham, Alabama. When read in its proper context, we can see King was not (...)
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  29. Uncivil Obedience: a Method for (Potentially) Decreasing Political Polarization.Jennifer Kling - 2023 - In Will Barnes, Politics, Polarity, and Peace. Netherlands: Brill Rodopi. pp. 25-41.
    A common lamentation about political polarization is that it decreases social and political civility. Family members disown each other over political affiliations, protestors flood the streets, and social disavowals become part of everyday life. Polarization increases incivility, which increases polarization, in what appears to be a vicious cycle. However, I argue that there is one kind of political incivility, namely, uncivil obedience, that has the ability to decrease polarization. Uncivil obedience has the capacity to decrease polarization by cleverly drawing attention (...)
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  30. Authors’ Introduction to the Book and Symposium.Jennifer Kling & Megan Mitchell - 2023 - Philosophy in the Contemporary World 29 (2):74-87.
    Book Symposium: The Philosophy of Protest: Fighting for Justice Without Going to War (Rowman and Littlefield, 2021). -/- Authors’ Introduction.
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  31. Getting the duty to resist right: Remarks on Candice Delmas’s book a duty to resist: When disobedience should be uncivil.Cristina Lafont - 2023 - Philosophy and Social Criticism 49 (3):283-288.
    In her book A Duty to Resist, Candice Delmas defends the view that we are not only permitted to disobey gravely unjust laws, but we may have a duty to do so. Moreover, not only civil but also uncivil disobedience may be justified in such cases. To justify both claims she argues that the same principles that justify a duty to obey the law—such as the principle of fairness, Samaritan duty, and associative obligations—also justify a duty to disobey the law. (...)
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  32. Environmental Activism and the Fairness of Costs Argument for Uncivil Disobedience.Ten-Herng Lai & Chong-Ming Lim - 2023 - Journal of the American Philosophical Association 9 (3):490-509.
    Social movements often impose nontrivial costs on others against their wills. Civil disobedience is no exception. How can social movements in general, and civil disobedience in particular, be justifiable despite this apparent wrong-making feature? We examine an intuitively plausible account—it is fair that everyone should bear the burdens of tackling injustice. We extend this fairness-based argument for civil disobedience to defend some acts of uncivil disobedience. Focusing on uncivil environmental activism—such as ecotage (sabotage with the aim of protecting the environment)—we (...)
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  33. Policing Disobedient Demonstrations.Jake Monaghan - 2023 - Criminal Law and Philosophy 17 (3):653-668.
    This article sketches a case for the importance of allowing and protecting civil disobedience in a democratic society. There are weighty reasons for non-enforcement of certain laws under certain circumstances, which undermines the legalistic claim that justice requires police to faithfully (try to) enforce all laws at all times. Furthermore, questions about how the police should respond to disobedient demonstrations are not settled by popular theoretical treatments of civil disobedience. Police responses to disobedient demonstrations should be guided by a principle (...)
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  34. The civility of the privileged: Assessing the narrative around Australia's marriage equality campaign.Piero Moraro - 2023 - In Donna Bridges, Clifford Lewis, Elizabeth Wulff, Chelsea Litchfield & Larissa Bamberry, Gender, Feminist and Queer Studies: Power, Privilege and Inequality in a Time of Neoliberal Conservatism. Routledge.
    This chapter offers a critique of mainstream accounts of civil disobedience (CD) in contemporary political theory. Its goal is to highlight how the notion of “civility” is used as a political tool to sanitise and domesticate social protest. Focusing on Australia’s 2017 marriage equality campaign, the chapter highlights how the dominant conception of “civil” disobedience reproduces the logic of a patriarchal system in which women and non-mainstream men are expected to remain quiet and behave with “decorum”. The chapter draws attention (...)
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  35. Political Obligation, Civil Disobedience and Resistance Within the Democratic Regime: Alessandro Passerin D’Entrèves’ Notion of the State.Maísa Martorano Suarez Pardo - 2023 - Kriterion: Journal of Philosophy 64 (156):749-770.
    RESUMO O artigo examina a função da noção de obrigação política no pensamento do filósofo italiano da política e do direito Alessandro Passerin d’Entrèves (1902-1985), especialmente em sua relação com o regime democrático e as formas de resistência por parte dos cidadãos. Pela análise dos principais argumentos do autor a esse respeito, o artigo procura demonstrar a flexibilidade do conceito de Estado do autor e a importância da filosofia enquanto ponto de intersecção entre a moral e o direito, constituindo-se como (...)
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  36. Seeing like an activist: Civil disobedience and the civil rights movement.Janosch Prinz - 2023 - Contemporary Political Theory 22 (1):38-41.
  37. A Right to Break the Law? On the Political Function and Moral Grounds of Civil Disobedience.Johan Andreas Trovik - 2023 - Res Publica 29 (3):385-403.
    Do citizens of liberal democratic states have a moral right to engage in civil disobedience? Famously, Joseph Raz argued that they do not. In this article, I defend his argument against some recent challenges, but show how it is tied to a particular model of civil disobedience. On this model, the purpose of civil disobedience is to protest and prevent particularly egregious violations of justice. A moral right to civil disobedience can be grounded on a different model, where the function (...)
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  38. On Covert Civil Disobedience and Animal Rescue.Daniel Weltman - 2023 - Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 25 (2).
    Tony Milligan argues that some forms of covert non-human animal rescue, wherein activists anonymously and illegally free non-human animals from confinement, should be understood as acts of civil disobedience. However, most traditional understandings of civil disobedience require that the civil disobedient act publicly rather than covertly. Thus Milligan’s proposal is that we revise our understanding of civil disobedience to allow for covert in addition to public disobedience. I argue we should not. Milligan cannot justify using paradigm cases to expand the (...)
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  39. Nonviolent Protesters and Provocations to Violence.Shawn Kaplan - 2022 - Washington University Review of Philosophy 2:170-187.
    In this paper, I examine the ethics of nonviolent protest when a violent response is either foreseen or intended. One central concern is whether protesters, who foresee a violent response but persist, are provoking the violence and whether they are culpable for any eventual harms. A second concern is whether it is permissible to publicize the violent response for political advantage. I begin by distinguishing between two senses of the term provoke: a normative sense where a provocateur knowingly imposes an (...)
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  40. Understanding whistleblowing Civil disobedience or uncivil action?Manohar Kumar - 2022 - In Tapio Nykänen, Tiina Seppälä & Petri Koikkalainen, Civil Disobedience from Nepal to Norway Traditions, Extensions, and Civility. London: Routledge.
    It is common to note some emerging forms of dissent to make claims of civil disobedience. Against them, sceptics argue that these protests should be seen in their own right, and sometimes as instances of uncivil disobedience, because they neither meet the demanding requirements of civil disobedience nor adequately capture the nature of dissent. The chapter examines the sceptical claim against one emerging form of dissent, whistleblowing, and argues that it is a form of civil disobedience. Additionally, it argues that (...)
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  41. (1 other version)Anonymity, fidelity to law, and digital Civil disobedience.Wulf Loh - 2022 - Philosophy and Social Criticism (4):448-476.
    Making use of the liberal concept of civil disobedience, this paper assesses, under which circumstances instances of illegal digital protest—called “hacktivism”—can be justified vis-à-vis the pro t...
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  42. Unruly kids? Conceptualizing and defending youth disobedience.Nikolas Mattheis - 2022 - European Journal of Political Theory 21 (3):466-490.
    Taking the ‘Fridays for Future’ movement as its starting point, this article conceptualizes and defends youth disobedience, understood as principled disobedience by legal minors. The article first argues that the school strike for climate can be viewed as civil disobedience. Then, the article distinguishes between various forms of youth disobedience (according to whether they involve child-specific issues or actions). Building on the democratic rationale for civil disobedience, the remainder of the article argues that there is a special justification for youth (...)
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  43. Civil disobedience as a non-violence possibility: a philosophical reflection.Cacilda Jandira Corrêa Mezzomo & Marcelo Larger Carneiro - 2022 - Kant E-Prints 16 (3):35-59.
    In this article, we will discuss Civil Disobedience as a tool for non-violent protests. We will analyze the ideas from Thoreau to Kant, including the thoughts of Gandhi and Dworkin, verifying the effectiveness, or lack thereof, of their arguments in the political world. With regard to Dworkin and Gandhi, both inspired by Thoreau's thought, civil disobedience to norms provided a change in the political scenario, capable of effecting a mediation of conflicts through non-violence. Kant's perspective, in turn, presents the hypothesis (...)
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  44. “Gandhi’s Encounter with the British Suffrage Movement: Lessons Learned".Gail M. Presbey - 2022 - In Veena Howard & Falon Kartch, Gandhi's Global Legacy: Moral Methods and Modern Challenges. Lexington Books / Rowman and Littlefield. pp. 87-106.
    Most accounts of the influences on Gandhi's philosophy and tactics of nonviolent action do not give enough credit to the role that women in the British suffrage movement played in inspiring and guiding him. The article explains how, despite his specifically mentioning on occasion that he is NOT copying their tactics, he actually does repeat many of them in his 1913 satyagraha campaign in South Africa. And on many occasions he does credit them with inspiring him and his movement. In (...)
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  45. Rescue Missions in the Mediterranean and the Legitimacy of the EU’s Border Regime.Hallvard Sandven & Antoinette Scherz - 2022 - Res Publica (4):1-20.
    In the last seven years, close to twenty thousand people have died trying to reach Europe by crossing the Mediterranean Sea. Rescue missions by private actors and NGOs have increased because both national measures and measures by the EU’s border control agency, Frontex, are often deemed insufficient. However, such independent rescue missions face increasing persecution from national governments, Italy being one example. This raises the question of how potential migrants and dissenting citizens should act towards the EU border regime. In (...)
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  46. Why not uncivil disobedience?William E. Scheuerman - 2022 - Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 25 (7):980-999.
    An impressive body of recent literature posits that traditional notions of civil disobedience prevent us from properly considering potentially legitimate types of ‘uncivil’ political lawbreaking. When might uncivil (covert, legally evasive, morally offensive and potentially violent) lawbreaking prove normatively acceptable? If justifiable, what conditions should its practitioners be reasonably expected to meet? Despite some important insights, defenders of uncivil disobedience rely on a narrow and sometimes misleading view of civil disobedience, as previously practiced and theorized. Notwithstanding legitimate skepticism about Rawlsian (...)
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  47. Vigilantism and Political Vision.Susanna Siegel - 2022 - Washington University Review of Philosophy 2:1-42.
    Vigilantism, commonly glossed as “taking the law into one’s own hands,” has been analyzed differently in studies of comparative politics, ethnography, history, and legal theory, but has attracted little attention from philosophers. What can “taking the law into one’s hands” amount to? How does vigilantism relate to mobs, protests, and self-defense? I distinguish between several categories of vigilantism, identify the questions they are most useful for addressing, and offer an analysis on which vigilantism is a kind of political initiative done (...)
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  48. Piero Moraro, Civil Disobedience: A Philosophical Overview.William Smith - 2022 - Criminal Law and Philosophy 16 (3):651-656.
    Piero Moraro offers an illuminating and insightful survey of the philosophical literature on civil disobedience, illustrating how the conversation has evolved since the debates triggered by the social movements of the 1960s. The principal value of the book is that it showcases the multifaceted complexion of the emerging philosophical terrain, thus correcting the erroneous but still common perception that civil disobedience is a mere adjunct to interminable debates about the duty to obey. The book also offers original contributions to the (...)
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  49. Seeing Civil Disobedience Like a State. [REVIEW]Eraldo Souza dos Santos - 2022 - The Philosopher 110 (1).
    Review Essay on "Seeing Like an Activist: Civil Disobedience and the Civil Rights Movement," by Erin Pineda (2021).
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  50. On Radical Genealogies of Civil Disobedience.Eraldo Souza dos Santos - 2022 - (des)Troços 4 (1):1-8.
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