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The Marketing of Rebellion: Insurgents, Media, and International Activism (Cambridge Studies in Contentious ...

1 review
Clifford Bob

Cambridge University Press, 2005

A brilliant book
Clifford Bob's The Marketing Rebellion is a valuable contribution to our understanding of the NGO sector operates. The literature on NGOs is not a particularly sophisticated one, heavily populated with self-serving and unenlightening tomes. Bob examines the nexus between third world insurgencies and international NGOs and comes to some interesting findings. This book is a must for those ...

Patriots, Politics, and the Oklahoma City Bombing (Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics)

2 reviews
Stuart A. Wright

Cambridge University Press, 2007

Page turner
In the rush to keep America safe, this book reminds us that the country inadvertently nurtures terrorism amongst 'all-American' types. Both McVeigh and Nichols never would have fit the profile of a 'suspected terrorist'. This is because they were military veterans without prior arrest records who lived in middle America. But Middle America feels alienated from its government. Come to think ...

The Politics of Collective Violence (Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics)

2 reviews
Charles Tilly, Douglas McAdam, ...

Cambridge University Press, 2003

A Must for any Student of Collective Violence
One reason for political scientists to be wary of the analyses offered by their discipline is that sociologists have always been better at providing contemporary political analysis. Charles Tilly goes even further when he comes as a historical sociologist. In The Politics of Collective Violence, he provides, in a readable fashion, an analysis of collective violence through time and space. By ...

Dynamics of Contention (Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics)

2 reviews
Doug McAdam, Sidney Tarrow, ...

Cambridge University Press, 2001

Dynamics of Contention: A Great Leap Forward?
Charles Tilly and his colleagues' effort in Dynamics of Contention is a colossal one. They aim to develop a new way of looking at contentious politics and try to gauge similar patterns in what have so far been regarded as distinct phenomena. Such an effort ends up having merits as well as handicaps, though. I will try to address three issues in this paper (one merit and two handicaps). ...

The New Transnational Activism (Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics)

2 reviews
Sidney Tarrow

Cambridge University Press, 2005

Tarrow on global protest
In The New Transnational Activism, Sidney Tarrow extends his familiar "political opportunities model" to the global realm toward understanding the contours of global protest. He makes the case that, just as political structures present at the national and subnational levels shape the activities of local, regional and national protestors, international structures condition the emergence, nature, ...

Contentious Performances (Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics)
Charles Tilly

Cambridge University Press, 2008

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. ...

Power in Movement: Social Movements and Contentious Politics (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)

3 reviews
Sidney Tarrow

Cambridge University Press, 1998

Ideal for the social movement student
I had to read an earlier edition of that book for a course on social movements. It was one of my first contacts with social movements literature. Since then, I plug almost everything I read on social movement to the theoretical framework described in this book. I guess the main quality of this book is that the author recognise the contributions made by different schools of thought on social ...

Contentious Politics
Charles Tilly, Sidney Tarrow

Paradigm Publishers, 2006

Revolutions, social movements, religious and ethnic conflict, nationalism and civil rights, and transnational movements: these forms of contentious politics combine in Charles Tilly's and Sidney Tarrow's Contentious Politics. The book presents a set of analytical tools and procedures for study, comparison, and explanation of these very different sorts of contention. Drawing on many historical and contemporary cases, the book shows that similar ...

Race, Space, and Riots in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles
Janet L. Abu-Lughod

Oxford University Press, USA, 2007

American society has been long plagued by cycles of racial violence, most dramatically in the 1960s when hundreds of ghetto uprisings erupted across American cities. Though the larger, underlying causes of contentious race relations have remained the same, the lethality, intensity, and outcomes of these urban rebellions have varied widely. What accounts for these differences? And what lessons can be learned that might reduce the destructive ...

Contesting Citizenship in Latin America: The Rise of Indigenous Movements and the Postliberal Challenge ...
Deborah J. Yashar

Cambridge University Press, 2005

Deborah Yashar analyzes the contemporary and uneven emergence of Latin American indigenous movements--addressing both why indigenous identities have become politically salient in the contemporary period and why they have translated into significant political organizations in some places and not others. She argues that ethnic politics can best be explained through a comparative historical approach that analyzes three factors: changing citizenship ...

Governing Water: Contentious Transnational Politics and Global Institution Building (Global Environmental ...
Ken Conca

The MIT Press, 2005

Winner of the 2006 Harold and Margaret Sprout Award presented by the International Studies Association (ISA) and Winner of the 2006 Chadwick F. Alger Award presented by the International Studies Association (ISA) Water is a key component of critical ecosystems, a marketable commodity, a foundation of local communities and cultures, and a powerful means of social control. It has become a source of contentious politics and social ...

Contentious Europeans
Doug Imig, Sidney Tarrow

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2001

Exploring how social movements have been influenced by growing Europeanization and globalization, this groundbreaking work analyzes the developing efforts of European citizens to make demands upon the supranational level of European government through social movements, protest politics, and contentious political action. The authors explore the conditions under which citizens are attempting to gain voice before the EU through protest politics, as ...

Seize the Daylight: The Curious and Contentious Story of Daylight Saving Time

10 reviews
David Prerau

Basic Books, 2006

A Detailed Review of an Interesting Subject
I never realized that Daylight Saving Time (DST) had such a controversial and turbulent history. I believe that the author has done an excellent job in detailing DST's evolution, often in excruciating detail, right up to the current, yet still fluctuating, situation. The writing is clear and engaging making the book very easy to read. The book also contains many caricatures that were published ...

Contentious Curricula: Afrocentrism and Creationism in American Public Schools (Princeton Studies in Cultural ...
Amy J. Binder

Princeton University Press, 2004

This book compares two challenges made to American public school curricula in the 1980s and 1990s. It identifies striking similarities between proponents of Afrocentrism and creationism, accounts for their differential outcomes, and draws important conclusions for the study of culture, organizations, and social movements. Amy Binder gives a brief history of both movements and then describes how their challenges played out in seven school ...

Routine Politics and Violence in Argentina: The Gray Zone of State Power (Cambridge Studies in Contentious ...
Javier Auyero

Cambridge University Press, 2007

Close to three hundred stores and supermarkets were looted during week-long food riots in Argentina in December 2001. Thirty-four people were reported dead and hundreds were injured. Among the looting crowds, activists from the Peronist party (the main political party in the country) were quite prominent. During the lootings, police officers were conspicuously absent - particularly when small stores were sacked. Through a combination of archival ...

Contentious Traditions: The Debate on Sati in Colonial India

2 reviews
Lata Mani

University of California Press, 1998

an important intervention for the specialist and non specialist alike
This book is important not only for those interested in 'sati' (whatever their motives might be) but also for anyone interested in exploring the difficult problems that confront the historian in her task. By carefully examining the debates around sati it argues, among other things, that the colonial state and many nationalists shared the same grounds. Although ostensively about women, Mani shows ...

Religious Pluralism in America: The Contentious History of a Founding Ideal
William R. Hutchison

Yale University Press, 2004

In this groundbreaking and timely history, an eminent historian of religion chronicles America?s struggle to fulfill the promise of religious toleration enshrined in our Constitution. William Hutchison shows that as Catholics, Mormons, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, and others emerged to challenge the Protestant mainstream, we have expanded our understanding of what it means to be a religiously diverse country. ?[This] landmark study address[es] a ...

Rightful Resistance in Rural China (Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics)

1 review
Kevin J. O'Brien, Lianjiang Li

Cambridge University Press, 2006

Contentious politics in rural China
This short book lays out, conceptually, what kind of contentious politics "Rightful Resistance" is and where in the literature its place should be. Rightful Resistance is somewhere between James Scott's "everyday forms of resistance," on the one hand, and the sustained nature implied in Charles Tilly's notion that social movements are "campaigns." "Unlike rebels in the name of the tsar, ...

Contentious Geographies (Ashgate Studies in Environmental Policy and Practice)
Maxwell T. Boykoff and Kyle T. Evered

Ashgate, 2008

Social Movements and Organization Theory (Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics)

Cambridge University Press, 2005

Although the fields of organization theory and social movement theory have long been viewed as belonging to different worlds, recent events have intervened, reminding us that organizations are becoming more movement-like and volatile and politicized while movements are more likely to borrow strategies from organizations. Topics covered in this volume range from globalization and transnational social movement organizations to community recycling ...

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