List of Tables, Figures and Boxes
Preface
PART I: INTRODUCTION
1. Making Claims
2. How to Analyze Contention
PART TWO: REPERTOIRES, REGIMES AND OPPORTUNITIES
3. Democracy, Undemocracy, and Change in Repertoires
4. Contention in Hybrid Regimes
PART III: INTERACTION AND MOBILIZATION
5. Contentious Interaction
6. Mobilization and Demobilization
PART IV: MOVEMENT AND LETHAL POLITICS
7. Social Movements
8. Lethal Conflicts
PART V: CONTENTION TODAY AND TOMORROW
9. Transnational Contention
10. Conclusions
Appendix A: Concepts and Methods
References
Index
About the Authors
Charles Tilly was Joseph L. Buttenweiser Professor of Social
Science at Columbia University, and before his death in 2008 was
the author of Identities and Social Ties (Paradigm 2005), Trust and
Rule (Cambridge 2005), Democracy (Cambridge 2007), and Contentious
Performances (Cambridge 2008). He was the first winner of the
Albert Hirschman prize for distinguished contributions to the
social sciences from the
Social Science Research Council.
Sidney Tarrow is Maxwell M. Upson Emeritus Professor of Government
and Visiting Professor of Law at Cornell University. His latest
books are Strangers at the Gates: Movements and States in
Contentious Politics (Cambridge 2012), The Language of Contention:
Revolutions in Words, 1789-2012 (Cambridge 2013) and War, States,
and Contention (Cornell 2015). He is a fellow of the American
Academy of Arts and Science and a holder of the John McCarthy
Prize
for Social Movement Scholarship.
"The second edition of Contentious Politics offers state-of-the-art
tools for examining contemporary and historical movements and wider
forms of collective action from transnational terrorism to civil
wars. The text will be indispensable in social movement-related
courses as well as a resource for scholars of resistance movements
and historical struggles."
--Paul Almeida, University of California-Merced
"What do anti-slavery protests in 18th century Great Britain share
with the Maidan encampment and its outcome for contemporary
conflicts in Ukraine and in Europe as a whole? This must-read
volume addresses this question by leading us through the complexity
of contentious politics. Much more than just an introduction to a
vital field of study, it contributes to it at several levels. Not
only does it cover a broad range of popular contention in Europe,
Africa,
the Middle East, and the Americas, but it also magisterially
highlights the theoretical achievements and potential of the field
of contentious politics."
--Donatella della Porta, Scuola Normale Superiore and the European
University Institute
"I would be highly inclined to use the second edition of
Contentious Politics as a main textbook for an undergraduate course
on contentious politics and social movements. I believe that this
updated edition will inspire discussions around the dialogue
between theory and empirical cases. Moreover, its up-to-date
analysis of major episodes of contention in the past decade will
undoubtedly stimulate students to apply the theoretical definitions
of
contentious politics to real-world cases."
--Diana Fu, University of Toronto
"Clearly presented and engaging, Contentious Politics remains
essential reading for undergraduate and graduate courses on
sociopolitical mobilization."
--M.L. Weiss, University of Albany, lChoice
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