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Dissenters --- Dissidenten --- Dissidents --- Niet-conformisten --- Non-conformistes --- Nonconformists --- Rebels (Social psychology) --- Civilization --- Philosophy --- Netherlands --- 20th century

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Vasily Rudich examines dissidence under Nero from both historical and psychological perspectives and inquires into the balance of the universal and historically conditioned components of political behaviour. The careers of numerous dissident individuals and their attempts at accommodation to a hostile reality are discussed.

Dissenters --- Dissidents --- Nonconformists --- Rebels (Social psychology) --- Conformity --- Rome --- Politics and government

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This book offers a major rereading of US foreign policy from Thomas Jefferson's purchase of Louisiana expanse to the Korean War. This period of one hundred and fifty years saw the expansion of the United States from fragile republic to transcontinental giant. David Mayers explores the dissenting voices which accompanied this dramatic ascent, focusing on dissenters within the political and military establishment and on the recurrent patterns of dissent that have transcended particular policies and crises. The most stubborn of these sprang from anxiety over the material and political costs of empire while other strands of dissent have been rooted in ideas of exigent justice, realpolitik, and moral duties existing beyond borders. Such dissent is evident again in the contemporary world when the US occupies the position of preeminent global power. Professor Mayers's study reminds us that America's path to power was not as straightforward as it might now seem.

Dissenters --- Dissidents --- Nonconformists --- Rebels (Social psychology) --- Conformity --- History. --- United States --- Foreign relations. --- Arts and Humanities --- History

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The Olympics have developed into the world's premier sporting event. They are simultaneously a competitive exhibition and a grand display of cooperation that bring together global cultures on ski slopes, shooting ranges, swimming pools, and track ovals. Given their scale in the modern era, the Games are a useful window for better comprehending larger cultural, social, and historical processes, argues Jules Boykoff, an academic social scientist and a former Olympic athlete. In Activism and the Olympics, Boykoff provides a critical overview of the Olympic industry and its political opponents in the modern era. After presenting a brief history of Olympic activism, he turns his attention to on-the-ground activism through the lens of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics and the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. Here we see how anti-Olympic activists deploy a range of approaches to challenge the Olympic machine, from direct action and the seizure of public space to humor-based and online tactics. Drawing on primary evidence from myriad personal interviews with activists, journalists, civil libertarians, and Olympics organizers, Boykoff angles in on the Games from numerous vantages and viewpoints. Although modern Olympic authorities have strived-even through the Cold War era-to appear apolitical, Boykoff notes, the Games have always been the site of hotly contested political actions and competing interests. During the last thirty years, as the Olympics became an economic juggernaut, they also generated numerous reactions from groups that have sought to challenge the event's triumphalism and pageantry. The 21st century has seen an increased level of activism across the world, from the Occupy Movement in the United States to the Arab Spring in the Middle East. What does this spike in dissent mean for Olympic activists as they prepare for future Games?

Olympics --- Dissenters. --- Dissidents --- Nonconformists --- Rebels (Social psychology) --- Conformity --- Games, Olympic --- Olympic games --- Summer Olympics --- Sports --- Political aspects. --- Social aspects. --- IOC.

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Dissenters --- Social norms --- Normes sociales --- Social institutions. --- Dissenters. --- Social institutions --- Institutions, Social --- Dissidents --- Nonconformists --- Rebels (Social psychology) --- Social systems --- Sociology --- Social structure --- Conformity