Extinction rebellion, vulnerability and sacred civil disobedience (original) (raw)

China perspectives, 2020

Abstract

The Extinction Rebellion (XR) movement is dynamic, evolving and radical in its attempt to disrupt the political, cultural and behavioural processes that cause the climate crisis. However, people have criticised some of the aspects of the movement. Is XR too radical? Is it violent? Is it too disruptive to people's lives and our cities? This article reflects on civil disobedience and examines what nonviolent resistance feels like and where nonviolent movements arise from. I interpret these movements as arising from the experience of being bodily, rather than ideologically, threatened. I'll then discuss how the vulnerability of civil disobedience has changed my experience of God.

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