Contentious Performances

Name: Contentious Performances
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ISBN: 9780521731522

ISBN-10: 0521731526

ISBN-13: 9780521731522

Edition: 2008

Authors: Charles Tilly

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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…

Book details

List price: $31.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 8/4/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 254
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Charles Tilly (1929-2008) was the Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science at Columbia University. His books include "Why?" (Princeton) and "Democracy".



Boxes, Figures, and Tables


Preface



Claims as Performances



How to Detect and Describe Performances and Repertoires



How Performances form, Change, and Disappear



From Campaign to Campaign



Invention of the Social Movement



Repertoires and Regimes



Contention in Space and Time



Conclusions


References


Index