The politics of collective violence
Editorial CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Mainland Spain
Are there any commonalities between such phenomena as soccer hooliganism, sabotage by peasants of landlords' property, incidents of road rage, and even the recent events of September 11? With striking historical scope and command of the literature of...
Read more- Publisher CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- ISBN13 9780521531450
- ISBN10 0521531454
- Type BOOK
- Pages 276
- Published 2003
- Language English
- Bookbinding Rustic
Subjects
Sociology. General TopicsThe politics of collective violence
Editorial CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Are there any commonalities between such phenomena as soccer hooliganism, sabotage by peasants of landlords' property, incidents of road rage, and even the recent events of September 11? With striking historical scope and command of the literature of...
Mainland Spain
Book details
Are there any commonalities between such phenomena as soccer hooliganism, sabotage by peasants of landlords' property, incidents of road rage, and even the recent events of September 11? With striking historical scope and command of the literature of many disciplines, this book seeks the common cause 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. Professor Tilly argues that collective violence is complicated, changeable, and unpredictable in some regards - yet that it also results from similar causes variously combined in different times and places. Pinpointing the causes, combinations, and settings helps to explain collective violence and its variations and also helps to identify the best ways to mitigate violence and create democracies with a minimum of damage to persons and property.