Everyone's talking civil disobedience, but the phrase that came to mind when I read the summary was "prefigurative politics": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prefi

Everyone's talking civil disobedience, but the phrase that came to mind when I read the summary was "prefigurative politics": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prefigurative_politics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prefigurative_politics > Prefigurative politics are the modes of organization and social relationships that strive to reflect the future society being sought by the group. A little more general, and a little more complex, but also missing the negative connotation of "disobedience". I get the feeling that the study wishes to remove some agency from this equation, as in "people will passively disobey and you should listen to that, because it means something", but behaving in a way that you'd like society to be has a somewhat prefigurative flavor.