"Imagining Global Nonviolence." Perspectives on Global Development and Technology 16, no. 1-3 (2017): 193-207. (original) (raw)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/15691497-12341429 This article interprets the globalization of nonviolence and nonviolent resistance through the lens of Manfred B. Steger’s concept of the “global imaginary.” It argues that the globalization of nonviolence and the global imaginary are mutually reinforcing processes. Nonviolent protests are driven by local issues and are, thus, context specific and local but, as in the case of the Arab uprisings, as they spread through the MENA and beyond, the uprisings provided historically linked examples of a growing global consciousness, a “global” we. Please see the journal web page for full article or email me: http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/15691497-12341429.