Graphic Nonviolence: Framing “Good Trouble” in John Lewis’ March

Framing pub smoking bans: an analysis of Australian print news media coverage, March 1996-March 2003.

OBJECTIVE To investigate framing strategies used by the Australian Hotels Association (AHA) and tobacco control groups to (respectively) resist or advocate laws providing smoke free bars. METHODS Online archives of Australian print media were searched 1996 to 2003. A thematic analysis of all statements made by AHA spokespeople and tobacco control advocates was conducted. Direct quotes or jour...

Nonviolence and Communication

Communication is central to the effectiveness of nonviolent action: methods of protest and persuasion are essentially means of communication, while methods of noncooperation and nonviolent intervention have crucial communicative dimensions. As a mode of political communication, nonviolence can be contrasted with rational dialogue, electoral politics and violence, and stands out from them in com...

The Power of Nonviolence

Five studies investigated the effects of nonviolent (vs. violent) strategies on people’s reactions to social movements. In a correlation study with a nested design, across 23 movements perceived use of violence negatively predicted participants’ willingness to support and join the movement (Study 1). This effect was also found experimentally, with Americans being more supportive of nonviolent r...

Circle Health is not like the John Lewis Partnership.

It is nonsense to describe Circle Health as a “John Lewis style social enterprise.”As theObserver has described in some detail, it is a loss making private business with financial arrangements that are far more complex than this article portrays. Staff shares amount to only 49% of the total number of shares, and the staff’s decision making powers are far less than even this suggests. It would h...

Sir John McMichael - 25 July 1904--3 March 1993.