Author: Sidney Tarrow
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: contentious, politics, studies, cambridge, transnational, activism, new
Number of Pages: 276
Published: 2005-08-01
List price: $21.99
ISBN-10: 0521616778
ISBN-13: 9780521616775

From labor organizers to immigrant activists, from environmentalists to human rights campaigners, from global justice protesters to Islamic militants, this book shows how ordinary people gain new perspectives, experiment with new forms of action, and sometimes emerge with new identities through their contacts across borders. It asks to what extent transnational activism changes domestic actors, their forms of claim making, and their prevailing strategies. Does it simply project the conflicts and alignments familiar from domestic politics onto a broader stage, or does it create a new political

Author: Sidney Tarrow
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: contentious, politics, studies, cambridge, transnational, activism, new
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2005-08-01
List price: $62.00
ISBN-10: 0521851300
ISBN-13: 9780521851305

From labor organizers to immigrant activists, from environmentalists to human rights campaigners, from global justice protesters to Islamic militants, this book shows how ordinary people gain new perspectives, experiment with new forms of action, and sometimes emerge with new identities through their contacts across borders. It asks to what extent transnational activism changes domestic actors, their forms of claim making, and their prevailing strategies. Does it simply project the conflicts and alignments familiar from domestic politics onto a broader stage, or does it create a new political

Author: Sidney Tarrow
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: politics, cambridge, comparative, studies, contentious, movement, social, movements, power
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2011-02-04
List price: $27.99
ISBN-10: 052115572X
ISBN-13: 9780521155724

Social movements have an elusive power but one that is altogether real. From the French and American revolutions to the post-Soviet, ethnic, and terrorist movements of today, contentious politics exercises a fleeting but powerful influence on politics, society, and international relations. This study surveys the modern history of the modern social movements in the West and their diffusion to the global South through war, colonialism, and diffusion, and it puts forward a theory to explain its cyclical surges and declines. It offers an interpretation of the power of movements that emphasizes eff

Authors:Charles Tilly, Sidney Tarrow,
Publisher: Paradigm Publishers
Keywords: politics, contentious
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2006-08-30
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 1594512469
ISBN-13: 9781594512469

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 principles describe and explain a wide variety of struggles as well as many more routine forms of politics. Tilly and Tarrow have written th

Authors:Doug Imig, Sidney Tarrow,
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Keywords: europeans, contentious
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2001-08-28
List price: $44.95
ISBN-10: 0742500845
ISBN-13: 9780742500846

Authors:Charles Tilly, Douglas McAdam, Sidney Tarrow,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: politics, contentious, studies, violence, collective, cambridge
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2003-03-17
List price: $28.99
ISBN-10: 0521531454
ISBN-13: 9780521531450

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 compli

Authors:Doug McAdam, Sidney Tarrow, Charles Tilly, Charles Ti
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: contentious, politics, studies, cambridge, contention, dynamics
Number of Pages: 410
Published: 2001-09-10
List price: $27.99
ISBN-10: 0521011876
ISBN-13: 9780521011877

Dissatisfied with the compartmentalization of studies concerning strikes, wars, revolutions, social movements, and other forms of political struggle, McAdam, Tarrow, and Tilly identify causal mechanisms and processes that recur across a wide range of contentious politics. Critical of the static, single-actor models (including their own) that have prevailed in the field, they shift the focus of analysis to dynamic interaction. Doubtful that large, complex series of events such as revolutions and social movements conform to general laws, they break events into smaller episodes, then identify re