Edyvane, D orcid.org/0000-0003-2169-4171 and Kulenovic, E (2017) Disruptive Disobedience. Journal of Politics, 79 (4). pp. 1359-1371. ISSN 0022-3816
Abstract
This article addresses a neglected class of cases of civic resistance, involving the anonymous and covert disruption of institutions and practices. Such cases have become more commonplace in the first decades of the twenty-first century with the rise of "hacktivism", but they sit uneasily within the traditional conceptual and normative framework of civil disobedience the legitimacy of which is premised on the publicity of dissent and on the willingness of dissenters to accept the legal consequences of their actions. To make sense of these new forms of civic resistance, the article introduces the concept of “disruptive disobedience”. It elaborates the concept by contrasting it with other forms of civic resistance, and proposes a moral justification for it by presenting it as a corrective to democratic exclusion. Finally, it tests that justification by applying it to a prominent contemporary case involving Aaron Swartz’s illegal download of JSTOR research articles.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2017 by the Southern Political Science Association. Reproduced in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | civic resistance, civil disobedience, hacktivism, Aaron Swartz, citizenship |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Politics & International Studies (POLIS) (Leeds) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number Leverhulme Trust RF-2014-111\7 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 01 Dec 2016 10:53 |
Last Modified: | 18 Jul 2018 00:39 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | University of Chicago Press |
Identification Number: | 10.1086/692666 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:108748 |