Uploaded December 2018 | Updated September 2026, 22 minutes ago

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Stellan Vinthagen is a scholar-activist seeking to undermine white supremacist, capitalist, militarist, hetero-patriarchy
I met Stellan at the Peace and Justice Studies Conference, where I was also a presenter.


He is the endowed Chair in the Study of Nonviolent Direct Action and Civil Resistance
Professor of Sociology at University of Massachusetts, Amherst umass.edu/sociology/users/vinthagen
and at University of Gothenburg http://socav.gu.se/forskning/csm-resist
Co-editor of book series on Resistance Studies

Let’s start with some definitions:
Resistance

Categories of resistance.

Non-violence

Systemic and structural violence