Stories Identities And Political Change

Author : Charles Tilly
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0742518825

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Stories, Identities, and Political Change by Charles Tilly Pdf

An award-winning sociologist, Charles Tilly has been equally influential in explaining politics, history, and how societies change. Tilly's newest book tackles fundamental questions about the nature of personal, political, and national identities and their linkage to big events--revolutions, social movements, democratization, and other processes of political and social change. Tilly focuses in this book on the role of stories, as means of creating personal identity, but also as explanations, true or false, of political tensions and realities. He uses well-known examples from around the world--the Zapatista rebellion, Hindu-Muslim conflicts, and other examples in which nationalism and other forms of group identity are politically pivotal. Tilly writes with the immediacy of a journalist, but the profound insight of a great theorist.

Author : Jennifer Todd,Lorenzo Cañás Bottos,Nathalie Rougier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317969532

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Political Transformation and National Identity Change by Jennifer Todd,Lorenzo Cañás Bottos,Nathalie Rougier Pdf

The major socio-political changes of the last decades have led to changing ways of being national, changes in the content of national identity if not in the national categories themselves. This comparative social scientific volume takes examples of transitions to democracy (East Europe, Spain) to peace (South Africa, Israel, Northern Ireland) and to territorial decentralization (the United Kingdom, France, Spain), showing in each case how socio-political change and identity change have interlocked. It defines a typology of national identity shift, tracing the changing state forms which provoke national identity shift, and analyzing the process of identity change, its motivations and legitimations. Collecting together a wide range of examples, from South Africa to the Czech Republic from the Basque Country to the Mexican and Irish borders; the book brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars, from world figures in the study of globalization and social identity to young researchers, to provide a much needed theoretical clarification and empirical evidence of types of national identity shift.

Author : Charles Tilly
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317257875

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Identities, Boundaries and Social Ties by Charles Tilly Pdf

Identities, Boundaries and Social Ties offers a distinctive, coherent account of social processes and individuals' connections to their larger social and political worlds. It is novel in demonstrating the connections between inequality and de-democratization, between identities and social inequality, and between citizenship and identities. The book treats interpersonal transactions as the basic elements of larger social processes. Tilly shows how personal interactions compound into identities, create and transform social boundaries, and accumulate into durable social ties. He also shows how individual and group dispositions result from interpersonal transactions. Resisting the focus on deliberated individual action, the book repeatedly gives attention to incremental effects, indirect effects, environmental effects, feedback, mistakes, repairs, and unanticipated consequences. Social life is complicated. But, the book shows, it becomes comprehensible once you know how to look at it.

Author : Tanja Zakrzewski
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Alpujarras (Spain)
ISBN : 9781666915358

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Identity and Violence in Early Modern Granada by Tanja Zakrzewski Pdf

In Identity and Violence in Early Modern Granada: Conversos and Moriscos, Tanja Zakrzewski argues that Conversos and Moriscos, despite being distinct socio-cultural groups within Spanish society, still employed the same arguments and rhetorical strategies to establish and defend their place within society. Both Conversos and Moriscos relied on contemporary notions of honour, authority, and loyalty to emphasize that they are true Spaniards - not despite their New Christian heritage but because of it. This book offers an entangled narrative of their history and examines how their notions of honor and hispanidad shaped their socio-cultural identities during the time of the socio-cultural identities during the time of the Alpujarras Rebellion.

Author : Keith Mann
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1845456459

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Forging Political Identity by Keith Mann Pdf

Escaping the traditional focus on Paris, the author examines the divergent political identities of two occupational groups in Lyon, metal and silk workers, who, despite having lived and worked in the same city, developed different patterns of political practices and bore distinct political identities. This book also examines in detail the way that gender relations influenced industrial change, skill, and political identity. Combining empirical data collected in French archives with social science theory and methods, this study argues that political identities were shaped by the intersection of the prevailing political climate with the social relations surrounding work in specific industrial settings.

Author : Mneesha Gellman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317358312

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Democratization and Memories of Violence by Mneesha Gellman Pdf

Ethnic minority communities make claims for cultural rights from states in different ways depending on how governments include them in policies and practices of accommodation or assimilation. However, institutional explanations don’t tell the whole story, as individuals and communities also protest, using emotionally compelling narratives about past wrongs to justify their claims for new rights protections. Democratization and Memories of Violence: Ethnic minority rights movements in Mexico, Turkey, and El Salvador examines how ethnic minority communities use memories of state and paramilitary violence to shame states into cooperating with minority cultural agendas such as the right to mother tongue education. Shaming and claiming is a social movement tactic that binds historic violence to contemporary citizenship. Combining theory with empirics, the book accounts for how democratization shapes citizen experiences of interest representation and how memorialization processes challenge state regimes of forgetting at local, state, and international levels. Democratization and Memories of Violence draws on six case studies in Mexico, Turkey, and El Salvador to show how memory-based narratives serve as emotionally salient leverage for marginalized communities to facilitate state consideration of minority rights agendas. This book will be of interest to postgraduates and researchers in comparative politics, development studies, sociology, international studies, peace and conflict studies and area studies.

Author : L. Strombom
Publisher : Springer
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137301512

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Israeli Identity, Thick Recognition and Conflict Transformation by L. Strombom Pdf

The divisive and malleable nature of history is at its most palpable in situations of intractable conflict between nations or peoples. This book explores the significance of history in informing the relationship between warring parties through the concept of thick recognition and by exploring its relevance specifically in relation to Israel.

Author : Lena Tan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781137548887

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Metropolitan Identities and Twentieth-Century Decolonization by Lena Tan Pdf

This book focuses on the role of the processes and mechanisms involved in metropolitan identity construction, maintenance, and change in twentieth century decolonization, an event integral to world politics but little studied in International Relations.

Author : A. Saleh
Publisher : Springer
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137310873

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Ethnic Identity and the State in Iran by A. Saleh Pdf

While the Islamic Republic has employed various strategies to mitigate the worst excesses of inter-ethnic tension while still securing a Shi'a dominated "Persian hegemony," the systematic neglect of ethnic groups by both the Islamic Republic and its predecessor regime has resulted in the politicization of ethnic identity in Iran.

Author : H. Dekker
Publisher : Springer
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137291189

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The Palgrave Handbook of Global Political Psychology by H. Dekker Pdf

This collection recalibrates the study of political psychology through detailed and much needed analysis of the discipline's most important and hotly contested issues. It advances our understanding of the psychological mechanisms that drive political phenomena while showcasing a range of approaches in the study of these phenomena.

Author : Daniel Woolf
Publisher : Springer
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2007-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230597525

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Local Identities in Late Medieval and Early Modern England by Daniel Woolf Pdf

Inspired by the path-breaking work of Robert Tittler, the authors explore late Medieval and Early Modern community and identity across England. They examine the decline of neighbourliness, the politics of market towns, clerical status, charity, crime, and ways in which overlapping communities of court and country, London and Lancashire, relate.

Author : Manuel DeLanda
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350096745

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A New Philosophy of Society by Manuel DeLanda Pdf

In A New Philosophy of Society Manuel DeLanda offers a fascinating look at how the contemporary world is characterized by an extraordinary social complexity. Since most social entities, from small communities to large nation-states would disappear altogether if our cognitive abilities ceased to exist, DeLanda proposes a novel approach to social ontology that asserts the autonomy of social entities from the conceptions we have of them. He argues that Gilles Deleuze's theory of assemblages provides a framework in which sociologists and geographers studying social networks and regions can properly locate their work and fully elucidate the connections between them. Indeed, assemblage theory, as DeLanda argues, can be used to model any community, from interpersonal networks and institutional organizations, to central governments, cities and nation states.

Author : Sonia Lucarelli,Furio Cerutti,Vivien Ann Schmidt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Constitutional history
ISBN : 9780415551007

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Debating Political Identity and Legitimacy in the European Union by Sonia Lucarelli,Furio Cerutti,Vivien Ann Schmidt Pdf

Author : Ann Mische
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-07-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780691141046

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Partisan Publics by Ann Mische Pdf

During the 1980s and 1990s, Brazil struggled to rebuild its democracy after twenty years of military dictatorship, experiencing financial crises, corruption scandals, political protest, and intense electoral contention. In the midst of this turmoil, Ann Mische argues in this remarkable book, youth activists of various stripes played a vital and unrecognized role, contributing new forms of political talk and action to Brazil's emerging democracy. Drawing upon extensive and rich ethnography as well as formal network analysis, Mische tracks the lives of young activists through intersecting political networks, including student movements, church-based activism, political parties, nongovernmental organizations, and business and professional organizations. She probes the problems and possibilities they encountered in combining partisan activism with other kinds of civic involvement. In documenting activists' struggles to develop cross-partisan publics of various kinds, Mische explores the distinct styles of communication and leadership that emerged across organizations and among individuals. Drawing on the ideas of Habermas, Gramsci, Dewey, and Machiavelli, Partisan Publics highlights political communication styles and the forms of mediation and leadership they give rise to--for democratic politics in Brazil and elsewhere. Insightful in its discussion of culture, methodology, and theory, Partisan Publics argues that partisanship can play a significant role in civic life, helping to build relations and institutions in an emerging democracy.

Author : Erik Ching
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469628677

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Stories of Civil War in El Salvador by Erik Ching Pdf

El Salvador's civil war began in 1980 and ended twelve bloody years later. It saw extreme violence on both sides, including the terrorizing and targeting of civilians by death squads, recruitment of child soldiers, and the death and disappearance of more than 75,000 people. Examining El Salvador's vibrant life-story literature written in the aftermath of this terrible conflict--including memoirs and testimonials--Erik Ching seeks to understand how the war has come to be remembered and rebattled by Salvadorans and what that means for their society today. Ching identifies four memory communities that dominate national postwar views: civilian elites, military officers, guerrilla commanders, and working class and poor testimonialists. Pushing distinct and divergent stories, these groups are today engaged in what Ching terms a "narrative battle" for control over the memory of the war. Their ongoing publications in the marketplace of ideas tend to direct Salvadorans' attempts to negotiate the war's meaning and legacy, and Ching suggests that a more open, coordinated reconciliation process is needed in this postconflict society. In the meantime, El Salvador, fractured by conflicting interpretations of its national trauma, is hindered in dealing with the immediate problems posed by the nexus of neoliberalism, gang violence, and outmigration.