The Ethics of Uncivil Protest and Resistance

Candice Delmas is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Political Science at Northeastern University. She works at the intersection of social and political philosophy, ethics, and philosophy of law and is author of numerous publications, including A Duty to Resist: When Disobedience Should Be Uncivil (OUP, 2018).

Avia Pasternak is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Maryland. She has held previous academic positions at The University of Toronto, University College London and The University of Essex. She works on the ethics of protest and on collective and civic responsibility and is the author of numerous academic publications, including No Justice, No Peace (OUP, 2025).

The Ethics of Uncivil Protest and Resistance: Introduction: From Civil to Uncivil Disobedience, Candice Delmas and Avia Pasternak1. What Does It Mean To Be "Civil" or "Uncivil"? Mapping Conscientious, Communicative Rule-Breaking, Temi Ogunye2. Uncivil Activism and Democratic Legitimacy, Cristina Lafont3. Breaking Silences: Public Kissing and Other Things To Do When Protest Must Be Uncivil, José Medina and Walter Dill Scott4. Equivocal Resistance: Challenging the Colonial Apprehension of Indigenous Political Resistance, Yann Allard-Tremblay5. Uncivil (Nonviolent) Protest, Communal Participation, and Non-Participation in Steve Biko's Ethics of Just Struggle, Ẹniá»lá Ànúolúwapá»´& ?óyẹmí6. Justly Preventing Official Injustice, Daniel Viehoff7. Political Resistance and Property Damage, Chong-Ming Lim8. "It's Good to Do Something with Your Rage": Violent Protests and Epistemic Injustice, Avia Pasternak