Review of the book “How nonviolence protects the state”, from Peter Gelderloos

Authors

  • Marcelo Borel Instituto de Estudos Sociais e Políticos da Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (IESP/UERJ), Rio de Janeiro/RJ, Brasil
  • Fernando Vieira de Freitas Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro/RJ, Brasil

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/2178-4582.2017v51n2p500

Abstract

The book written by Peter Gelderloos in 2007 and published in Brazil in 2011, has as main objective to discuss the political shortcomings and the unsustainability of practice of non-violence project as instrument of political action. This contract extends over six chapters in which the author discusses the reasons why non-violence is an ineffective method, racist, statist, patriarchal, strategically lower, and illusory. The points raised and discussed by Peter Gelderloos throughout the book can be condensed into two major argumentative axes: one that treats violence as an instrument monopolized by the state and by the white man; and another which states that non-violent actions do not bear fruit able to significantly change social dynamics.

Author Biographies

Marcelo Borel, Instituto de Estudos Sociais e Políticos da Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (IESP/UERJ), Rio de Janeiro/RJ, Brasil

Graduado em Ciências Sociais pela UFMG. Mestre em Ciência Política pela Unicamp. Atualmente é doutorando em Ciência Política no IESP/UERJ.

Fernando Vieira de Freitas, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro/RJ, Brasil

Graduado em Ciências Sociais pela UFMG. Mestre em Planejamento Urbano e Regional pelo IPPUR/UFRJ. Atualmente é doutorando em Antropologia Social no Museu Nacional/UFRJ.

References

GELDERLOOS, P. Como a Não Violência protege o Estado. 1a. ed. Porto Alegre: Editora Deriva, 2011. Disponível online em: <https://kataklysma.noblogs.org/files/2016/02/Como-a-N%C3%A3o-Viol%C3%Aancia-Protege-o-Estado-Peter-Gelderloos.pdf>. Acessado em: 20/10/2016

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Published

2017-12-22

Issue

Vol. 51 No. 2 (2017)

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Resenhas

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