Contemporary debates on civil disobedience often turn on the question of what’s living and what’s dead in nonviolence. When protestors smash security cameras to hide their identities, hurl tear gas canisters back at police lines, or block highways to urge action from elected officials, they refuse the demand that disobedience be strictly nonviolent. The diversity of tactics embraced by recent protest movements around the globe raises questions about the continuing adequacy of the very idea of nonviolent civil disobedience for conceptualizing dissent. Some scholars have responded with calls for a more minimalist definition of civil disobedience that better encompasses these confrontational tactics.1 Others, such as Candice Delmas in her contribution to this volume, argue for abandoning the concept altogether in favor of theorizing this wider terrain as “uncivil” disobedience.