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Charles Tilly was one of the great sociologists of the last fifty years, and social change today makes his work all the more important. Castañeda and Schneider clearly present the scope of Tilly’s contributions and make his work accessible to a new generation of social scientists. —Craig Calhoun, London School of Economics and Political Science No scholar in the past half century has more deeply shaped histori- cal and political sociology, and no volume more effectively brings to- gether a better sampling of his prodigious opus. This collection not only demonstrates how Tilly has shaped the agenda in many of sociology’s liveliest themes, but also captures his uncanny ability to seamlessly weave together theory, method, and substance. For the novice or the senior scholar, it is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand collective violence, contentious politics, and social change. —William Roy, University of California, Los Angeles Castañeda and Schneider have brought together some of Tilly’s most in- fluential and compelling pieces. In this moment of great change, Tilly offers us tools to understand the present and shape the future. This col- lection will satisfy both new readers and current followers of Tilly’s work. —Lesley J. Wood, York University Over the course of several decades, Tilly sent a great many ships (ideas/ pieces of scholarship) into a great many seas. Some of us would follow a ship or three. Others would sit in the middle of an ocean or at a port to see what Chuck would send by. This volume serves as an amazing guide/companion/navigation device/travel log as one attempts to fathom all of the journeys taken by our dear friend. —Christian Davenport, University of Michigan This collection by Ernesto Castañeda and Cathy Schneider provides the ideal entryway into Tilly’s work. As Tilly would have hoped, it will help young scholars generate more questions, new research, and better explanations. —Ann Mische, University of Notre Dame This page intentionally left blank Collective Violence, Contentious Politics, and Social Change Charles Tilly is among the most influential American sociologists of the last century. For the first time, his pathbreaking work on a wide array of topics is available in one comprehensive reader. This manageable and read- able volume brings together many highlights of Tilly’s large and important oeuvre, covering his contribution to the following areas: revolutions and social change; war, state making, and organized crime; democratization; durable inequality; political violence; migration, race, and ethnicity; narra- tives and explanations. The book connects Tilly’s work on large-scale social processes such as nation-building and war to his work on micro processes such as racial and gender discrimination. It includes selections from some of Tilly’s earliest, influential, and out of print writings, including The Vendée; Coercion, Capital and European States; the classic “War Making and State Making as Organized Crime;” and his more recent and lesser-known work, including that on dura- ble inequality, democracy, poverty, economic development, and migration. Together, the collection reveals Tilly’s complex, compelling, and distinc- tive vision and helps place the contentious politics approach Tilly pioneered with Sidney Tarrow and Doug McAdam into broader context. The editors abridge key texts and, in their introductory essay, situate them within Tilly’s larger opus and contemporary intellectual debates. The chapters serve as guideposts for those who wish to study his work in greater depth or use his methodology to examine the pressing issues of our time. Read together, they provide a road map of Tilly’s work and his contribution to the fields of sociology, political science, history, and international studies. This book belongs in the classroom and in the library of social scientists, political ana- lysts, cultural critics, and activists. Ernesto Castañeda is assistant professor of sociology at American University in Washington, DC. He is the editor of Immigration and Categorical In- equality: Migration to the City and the Birth of Race and Ethnicity ( Forthcoming Routledge, 2017), and co-author with Charles Tilly and Lesley Wood of S ocial Movements 1768–2018 (Forthcoming Routledge, 2018), as well as articles on social movements, immigration, borders, and homelessness. He holds a PhD in sociology from Columbia University. Cathy Lisa Schneider is associate professor in the School of International Service at American University in Washington, DC. She is the author of Police Power and Race Riots: Urban Unrest in Paris and New York (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014, 2017 pbk.), Shantytown Protest in Pinochet’s Chile (Temple University Press, 1995), and assorted articles on military and p olice repression, social movements, and ethnic and racial discrimination. She holds a PhD in government from Cornell University. Collective Violence, Contentious Politics, and Social Change A Charles Tilly Reader EdiTEd by ErnEsto CastañEda and Cathy Lisa sChnEidEr First published 2017 by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 and by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4RN Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2017 Taylor & Francis The right of Ernesto Castañeda and Cathy Lisa Schneider to be identified as the authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Tilly, Charles, author. | Castañeda, Ernesto, editor. | Schneider, Cathy Lisa, 1955– editor. Title: Collective violence, contentious politics, and social change: a Charles Tilly reader / edited by Ernesto Castañeda, Cathy Lisa Schneider. Description: New York, NY: Routledge, 2017. Identifiers: LCCN 2016047481 | ISBN 9781612056715 (pbk.) | ISBN 9781612056708 (hbk) Subjects: LCSH: Social conflict. | Social movements. | Political violence. | Political sociology. | Social change. Classification: LCC HM1121 .T539 2017 | DDC 303.6—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016047481 ISBN: 978-1-6120-5670-8 (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-6120-5671-5 (pbk) ISBN: 978-1-315-20502-1 (ebk) Typeset in Avenir and Dante by codeMantra Contents Credits ix introduction 1 Ernesto Castañeda and Cathy Lisa Schneider Part i revolutions and social Change 23 1 The Vendée 25 2 Strikes in France 1830–1968 48 3 does Modernization breed Revolution? 55 4 From Mobilization to Revolution 71 5 Contentious Performances 92 6 Pernicious Postulates 100 Part ii state Making 121 7 War Making and State Making as Organized Crime 123 8 Coercion, Capital, and European States, A.d. 990–1990 140 Part iii democracy 155 9 democracy is a Lake 157 10 Where do Rights Come From? 168 11 democratization and de-democratization 183 12 Trust and democratic Rule 208 viii Contents Part iV durable inequality 225 13 durable inequality 227 14 Poverty and the Politics of Exclusion 249 Part V Political Violence 265 15 Contentious Conversation 267 16 The Politics of Collective Violence 275 17 Terror, Terrorism, Terrorists 293 Part Vi Migration, race, and Ethnicity 305 18 Transplanted Networks 307 19 Social boundary Mechanisms 326 20 From Segregation to integration 342 Part Vii narratives and Explanations 369 21 Why Give Reasons? 371 22 Credit, blame, and Social Life 383 Index 397 Credits Chapter 1 Excerpts from The Vendée by Charles Tilly. Published by Harvard University Press. Reprinted with permission. Chapter 2 Excerpts from Strikes in France 1830–1968 by Edward Shorter and Charles Tilly. Published by Cambridge University Press. Reprinted with permission. Chapter 3 Excerpts from Roads from Past to Future by Charles Tilly and Arthur L. Stinchcombe. © 1997 Rowman & Littlefield. Reprinted with permission. Chapter 4 Excerpts from From Mobilization to Revolution by Charles Tilly. © 1978 Addison-Wesley Pub. Co. Reprinted with permission. Chapter 5 Excerpts from Contentious Performances by Charles Tilly. © 2008 Charles Tilly. Published by Cambridge University Press. Reprinted with permission. Chapter 6 Excerpts from Tilly, Charles. 1985. Big Structures, Large Processes, Huge Com- parisons. Russell Sage Foundation. Reprinted with permission. Chapter 7 Excerpts from Bringing the State Back by Peter B. Evans, Dietrich Rueschemeyer, Theda Skocpol. © Cambridge University Press. Reprinted with permission.
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