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What do football hooliganism, road rage and international terrorism have in common? Plenty, writes Tilly (social science, Columbia U.), who examines collective violent action at both the theoretical and applied levels at a variety of scales. He describes the different types of collective violence, the transition to the perception that violence is a proper and effective expression of politics, trends and variations, the ritualizing of violence by various processes and stages, coordinated destruction and opportunism, the art of the simple brawl or scattered attack, and the special fury reserved for broken negotiations and social contracts. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

 

 

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 complicated, changeable, and unpredictable in some regards, yet also results from similar causes variously combined in different times and places. Pinpointing the causes, combinations, and settings helps to explain collective violence and also helps to identify the best ways to mitigate violence and create democracies with a minimum of damage to persons and property. Charles Tilly is the Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science at Columbia University. He has published more than twenty scholarly books, including twenty specialized monographs and edited volumes on political processes, inequality, population change and European history.

 

 

This book attempts to explain collective violence and to identify the best ways to mitigate it.

 

Contents

Varieties of violence -- Violence as politics -- Trends, variations, and explanations -- Violent rituals -- Coordinated destruction -- Opportunism -- Brawls -- Scattered attacks -- Broken negotiations -- Conclusions.