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  1. Oct 21, 2021 · If there's any form of resistance that might be considered the most extreme, this is a serious contender. It really started on June 11, 1963, with a Buddhist monk named Quang Duc. In order to protest the oppression of Buddhism by South Vietnam, he sat down in the middle of a street in Saigon and set himself ablaze.

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  2. Resistance movements are organized efforts by groups of people to oppose and challenge systems of oppression, exploitation, or colonial rule. These movements often arise in response to social injustices, economic exploitation, and political domination, aiming to reclaim rights, autonomy, or independence. Throughout history, such movements have played a crucial role in shaping societies and ...

  3. May 29, 2019 · The phenomenon of resistance and liberation movements has occurred throughout history and remains current. Wars of independence and attempts of those range back centuries, including prominent examples such as the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), the Irish War of Independence (1919–1921), the Kosovo War (1996–1999), the Second Sudanese Civil War (1983–2005), and many others.

  4. Apr 30, 2015 · The starting point is World War Two anti-Fascist Resistance, but the ambition is to analyse resistance as a multi-directional idea; one that has crossed time and space and moulded political and social movements across the globe in a profound manner, ranging from the anti-colonial liberation struggles and the 1989 revolutions in Eastern Europe, through to the Arab revolutions as well as the ...

  5. Dec 21, 2021 · Resistance Studies. Most resistance in the world is not about protests, but ‘everyday resistance’. James C. Scott discusses how political science only registers the tip of the iceberg of resistance in history. Stellan Vinthagen December 21, 2021. Embed from Getty Images.

  6. Often falling short of its putative aims, subaltern resistance has throughout history played a significant role in shaping the political landscape of states and empires. This chapter examines some of the more recent developments, as well as criticisms, of the broader study of subaltern resistance and rebellion within a global context.

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  8. Aug 8, 2012 · As a result, during the 1944 Uprising Stalin, seeing the German destruction of Warsaw, refused air access for Allied planes, effectively preventing the supply of significant arms to the Poles. The Resistance today is often seen in tragically romantic terms, epitomised by Sebastian Faulks’ fictional character Charlotte Gray, who achieves little.

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