Civic Courage: Disobedient Individuals, Communities, Researchers

Authors

• Teppo Eskelinen Jyväskylän yliopisto
• Tiina Seppälä Lapin yliopisto
• Sanna Ryynänen UEF: Itä-Suomen yliopisto

DOI: https://doi.org/10.30675/sa.85915

Keywords:

civic courage, civic disobedience, citizenship, individual, collective

Abstract

The article explores civic courage and civic disobedience from various perspectives, including individual and collective organising in struggles against injustice and inequality, tensions regarding the essence of citizenship,  different conceptualisations of democracy, the societal role and responsibility of researchers, and the significance of critical academic knowledge production.