Acknowledgements

Notes on contributors

1 Introduction: civil disobedience from Nepal to Norway

Tiina Seppala, Tapio Nykanen, and Tiina Harjumaa

PART I

Civil disobedience then and now

2 The concept and practices of civil disobedience

Petri Koikkalainen, Tapio Nykanen, and Tiina Harjumaa

3 Experiments with civil disobedience during Norwegian environmental struggles, 1970?2000

Stellan Vinthagen and Jørgen Johansen

4 Civil disobedience and artistic protests ? the Alta and Deatnu disputes and the development of Sami resistance

Tapio Nykanen, Veli-Pekka Lehtola, and Birgitta Vinkka

5 Drugs, disobedience, and democracy: civil disobedience and drug policy

Mika Luoma-Aho

PART II

Alternative insights and extensions of civil disobedience

6 Open source disobedience ? rise of civic hacktivism in Taiwan

Sami Kotiranta

7 Masked struggle: uncivil disobedience on the streets of Finland

Johan-Eerik Kukko

8 Is there an alternative tradition of civil disobedience in Europe?

Taru Haapala

9 Different forms of dissent in anti-deportation activism in Finland: from refugee protests to civil disobedience

Tiina Seppala

10 Dissenting civil society, hunger strikes, and the transitional justice process in Nepal

Neetu Pokharel, Som Prasad Niroula, and Tiina Seppala

PART III

Defending civility in civil disobedience

11 Academic freedom, resisting intellectuals, and the idea of university in South Asia

Arun Gupto

12 Understanding whistleblowing: civil disobedience or uncivil action?

Manohar Kumar

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