In civil wars, unpopular and violent rebel organizations sometimes gain support from politically motivated constituencies who should, by outside appearances, logically oppose such groups. I explain this through a logic in which self-interested, insincere leaders pander to aggrieved civilian populations mobilize them, presenting the organization as empathizing with offering solutions popular gri...

In China, patients, their relatives, or organised groups sometimes resort to ‘medical disturbances’ (??, yi nao) as a way of expressing grievances. Drawing on existing scholarly accounts and our recent research, this essay provides reflections phenomenon through the lens patient activism.

Ko nc ep tu al ni iz az ov i p ro m iš lja nj u de m ok ra ci je I the pamphlet Indignez-vous (Cry out! – Hessel, 2010), the reason the author Stéphane Hessel gives for the necessity for public indignation makes us listen attentively: it is the “heritage of the Résistance” which obliges us to protest against contemporary grievances. The heritage of the Résistance – this is the emotion of indign...

• Examines dark side of customer-brand relationship through Stimulus-Organism-Response (SOR) framework. Stimuli (dissatisfaction, negative word mouth, and advertisement overload) are positively associated with brand betrayal hate. Internal states (betrayal hate) coping responses avoidance retaliation. Brand love moderates the association overload safety hygiene grievances betrayal. The literatu...