The Politics of Collective Violence
Part of Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
- Author: Charles Tilly, Columbia University, New York
- Date Published: March 2003
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521824286
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Are there any commonalities between such phenomena as soccer hooliganism, sabotage by peasants of landlords' property, road rage, and even the events of September 11? With striking historical scope and command of the literature of many disciplines, this book seeks the common causes of these events in collective violence. In collective violence, social interaction immediately inflicts physical damage, involves at least two perpetrators of damage, and results in part from coordination among the persons who perform the damaging acts. Charles Tilly argues that collective violence is complicated, changeable, and unpredictable in some regards, yet also results from similar causes variously combined in different times and places. Pinpointing the causes, combinations, and settings helps to explain collective violence and also helps to identify the best ways to mitigate violence and create democracies with a minimum of damage to persons and property. Charles Tilly is the Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science at Columbia University. He has published more than twenty scholarly books, including twenty specialized monographs and edited volumes on political processes, inequality, population change and European history.
Read more- Wide range of historical and contemporary cases
- Connecting violence with inequality and with routine politics
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"The Politics of Collective Violence offers an arsenal of testable hypotheses that have the capacity to render intelligible the actions of statesmen, terrorists, and road-ragers who turn to violence as a means of staking claims, asserting identity, or exacting retribution...Tilly has drawn the subject of violence into the same rational-strategic frame that defines political process theory." American Journal of Sociology
See more reviews"....interesting insights...useful..." Foreign Affairs
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- Date Published: March 2003
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521824286
- length: 290 pages
- dimensions: 236 x 158 x 24 mm
- weight: 0.524kg
- contains: 9 b/w illus. 9 tables
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Varieties of violence
2. Violence as politics
3. Trends, variations, and explanations
4. Violent rituals
5. Coordinated destruction
6. Opportunism
7. Brawls
8. Scattered attacks
9. Broken negotiations
10. Conclusions.
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