How can we get inside popular collective struggles and explain how they work? Contentious Performances presents a distinctive approach to analyzing such struggles, drawing especially on incomparably rich evidence from Great Britain between 1758 and 1834. The book accomplishes three main things. First, it presents a logic and method for describing contentious events, occasions on which people publicly make consequential claims on each other. Second, it shows how that logic yields superior explanations of the dynamics in such events, both individually and in the aggregate. Third, it illustrates its methods and arguments by means of detailed analyses of contentious events in Great Britain from 1758 to 1834.
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1. Claims as performances; 2. How to detect and describe performances and repertoires; 3. How performances form, change, and disappear; 4. From campaign to campaign; 5. Invention of the social movement; 6. Repertoires and regimes; 7. Contention in space and time; 8. Conclusions.
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“Addressing the public performances through which crowds and other collectivities state grievances and make claims, Charles Tilly adds yet another dimension to his extraordinary explorations of the dynamics of contention. He deepens the approach to repertoires of contention which he made a staple of the field. In this book his cases come from late 18th and early 19th century Britain but his approach is important for all students of contentious politics everywhere. Tilly’s lively voice animates this book as his intelligence sharpens the analysis.”
-Craig Calhoun, New York University
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The book analyzes popular collective struggles, drawing especially on incomparably rich evidence from Great Britain between 1758 and 1834.
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780521515849
Publisert
2008-08-04
Utgiver
Vendor
Cambridge University Press
Vekt
460 gr
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
158 mm
Dybde
20 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
256
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