Modes of Protest And Resistance: Strange Change in Morals Political

Preface
	“We Are All Here”
	Protest
	Outline of Chapters
Acknowledgments
Contents
Chapter 1: Nonviolent Gadflies
	The Philosophy of Nonviolent Action
	What Does It Mean to Call Nonviolence “Effective”?
	The Politics of Respectability
	Laughtivism
Chapter 2: “The Last Shall Be First and the First Shall Be Last”: Resistance Violence
	Hannah Arendt on Political Violence
	Philosophies of Resistance
	Defining Resistance Violence
	Political Vulnerability
	Resistance Violence as Reasonable
	The Question of Self-Defense
	Scholars Advocating for Uses of Violence
	Catharsis
	Conclusion
Chapter 3: Says Who? Epistemic Injustice
	Philosophies of Epistemic Injustice
	Any Woman: Celia’s Story
	Epistemic Justice
	Conclusion
Chapter 4: Till They Felt a Big Stick About Their Heads: The Epistemic Justice of John Brown’s Resistance Violence
Chapter 5: The Question Is Not About The Weapon, But the Spirit in Which You Use It—Henry David Thoreau
	Political Vulnerability and Modes of Violent Protest Today
	Politically Vulnerable People Today: Trans People and Migrants
	Trans People as Politically Vulnerable
	Migrants
	Violent Anti-abortion Activism
	Antifascist Activism: “On Behalf of Another”
	The January 6th Insurrection of the U.S. Capitol
	Property Damage, Looting, and the Kerner Commission
	Where to Go from Here: Humor, Honesty, and Hope
Chapter 6: Epilogue
	Objections
Bibliography
Index