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"Seeing Civil Disobedience Like a State": A Review by Eraldo Souza dos Santos


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Seeing Like an Activist is a new philosophy of civil disobedience. It is a refusal to see civil disobedience in the ways liberals, inside and outside academia, have taught us to do since the 1960s. It is a refusal to see civil disobedience – and, more broadly, politics – like a “white state”. It is not only a