Nonviolent Encounters: Unarmed Civilian Protection through Bodies, Spaces and Times

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Louise Ridden (Tampere University)

Nonviolent Encounters

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Unarmed Civilian Protection through Bodies, Spaces and Times

Louise Ridden (Tampere University)

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English

Edinburgh University Press
30 April 2026

Peace studies & conflict resolution; Violence in society; Feminism & feminist theory; Political science & theory

Series: Edinburgh Feminist Studies on Peace, Violence and Justice

This book takes the emerging practice of Unarmed Civilian Protection (UCP) as a case study of nonviolence to interrogate the roles of violence and nonviolence in conflict knowledge production. By focusing on nonviolent actors using UCP, it decentres violence, which is often so prominent in peace research. This approach creates space to fundamentally reimagine how the world might be when imagined and enacted through nonviolence.

Drawing together feminist theorising from critical military studies, peace and conflict studies and international relations, Nonviolent Encounters argues that decentring violence in conflict knowledge production upsets the simple binaries of protector/protected and war/peace, underpinned by the 'one-world' onto-epistemology of much Western conflict knowledge. Instead, space is created to reconsider nonviolence, not as the binary opposite of violence, but as a way of knowing, doing and being

as a way of producing alternative ontological worlds.

By: Louise Ridden (Tampere University)
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781399548823
ISBN 10: 1399548824
Series: Edinburgh Feminist Studies on Peace, Violence and Justice
Pages: 184
Publication Date: 30 April 2026
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgements Introduction: Decentring Violence in Peace and Conflict 1. Nonviolence as a Relational Worlding Process 2. Unarmed Civilian Protection in Principle and Practice 3. Affective Embodiment 4. Emplacing Space 5. Temporal Disruptions 6. Embodied Space-Time: Synthesising Relational Worlds Conclusion: Undoing Binaries, Embracing the Pluriverse Bibliography

Louise Ridden is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Tampere University, Finland.

Reviews for Nonviolent Encounters: Unarmed Civilian Protection through Bodies, Spaces and Times

This book is an outstanding contribution to the literature on nonviolence. It is theoretically innovative and empirically grounded in the practice of unarmed civilian protection (UCP). It offers a new way of understanding embodied, spatial and temporal dimensions of nonviolent practice and shows how UCP operates productively within violence in ways that disrupt violent knowing, being and doing. -- Kimberly Hutchings, Queen Mary University of London