Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-32
Author(s):  
Deborah Avant ◽  
Marie E. Berry ◽  
Erica Chenoweth ◽  
Rachel Epstein ◽  
Cullen Hendrix ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Contentious Politics ◽  
Civil Action ◽  
Social Actors

This chapter introduces the concept of civil action. Beginning with an explanation of its roots in the literature on civility, it moves on to demonstrate how civil action fits logically with analyses of microdynamics and contentious politics. Civil action can be undertaken by a wide variety of social actors, and the chapter charts those actors and the authority claims and capabilities that affect their potential for taking civil action. It then explores three ways in which civil action might matter for conflict dynamics: through its effects on relationships, on levels of local violence, and on the overall conflict. Next, it elaborates on how civil action matters—through process and relationships—and when it should be most likely to work. Finally, the chapter outlines the structure of the book and the case studies it includes.

Patronage Politics and Contentious Collective Action: A Recursive Relationship

2009 ◽  
Vol 51 (03) ◽  
pp. 1-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Javier Auyero ◽  
Pablo Lapegna ◽  
Fernanda Page Poma
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Contentious Politics ◽  
Dynamic Processes ◽  
Patronage Politics

AbstractBased on ethnographic reanalysis and on current qualitative research on poor people's politics, this article argues that routine patronage politics and nonroutine collective action should be examined not as opposite and conflicting political phenomena but as dynamic processes that often establish recursive relationships. Through a series of case studies conducted in contemporary Argentina, this article examines four instances in which patronage and collective action intersect and interact: network breakdown, patron's certification, clandestine support, and reaction to threat. These four scenarios demonstrate that more than two opposing spheres of action or two different forms of sociability, patronage, and contentious politics can be mutually imbricated. Either when it malfunctions or when it thrives, clientelism may lie at the root of collective action.

Playing (Safely) with Fire

2021 ◽  
pp. 218-234
Author(s):  
Mary Angela Bock
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Criminal Justice System ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
The Public ◽  
Human Capability ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
The Way

This chapter reviews the project’s argument, that social actors struggle over the construction of visual messages in embodied and discursive ways. Digitization has vastly expanded the encoding capabilities of everyday citizens, allowing them to render their expression of democratic voice visible, even as the ethical rules for visual expression are inchoate. The project’s case studies demonstrate the way grounded practices produce representations that support the authority of the criminal justice system, and together they invite three theoretical discussions: (1) on the way visual journalism’s physicality increases its reliance on those in power, (2) on the importance of image indexicality as a discursive affordance in the public sphere, and (3) on the digital public sphere as visual, and participation in this visual public sphere must be considered as an essential human capability. As a whole, the project offers insight into the construction of the criminal justice system’s literal and metaphorical image.

scholarly journals Unlikely Friends of the Authoritarian and Atheist Ruler: Religious Groups and Collective Contention in Rural China

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 86-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu Tao
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
National Survey ◽  
Rural China ◽  
Communication Channels ◽  
Contentious Politics ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
Political Arena ◽  
Comparative Case Studies ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractThis article examines the roles played by rural religious groups in China's local contentious politics. More specifically, it aims to explore whether religious groups stimulate or reduce collective contention when the ruler is both authoritarian and atheist. Drawing on national survey data and comparative case studies, this article finds that collective contention is less likely to occur in villages with religious groups that simultaneously overlap with secular social organizations and local authorities, and are hence more likely to serve as credible communication channels between local states and discontented citizens. This finding highlights two important issues that are often side-lined, if not outright neglected, in the existing literature. First, the relationship between religious groups and collective contention is diverse rather than uniform. Second, this relationship is shaped not only by religious groups but also by other important players in the local political arena.

scholarly journals Forms of local media relations in local communities — case studies

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-36
Author(s):  
Sylwia Męcfal
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Conflicts Of Interest ◽  
Small Towns ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Media Relations ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Local Media ◽  
Complex Relationships

The local media market in Poland developed in very particular social conditions, conditions which Nowak 1979, 1981 described as a “social void”. As a result, it might be presumed that it was more likely that the new forms of society including local media were formed on the basis of the “bonding” type of social capital rather than the “bridging” type. Th is might be one of the reasons why tight and complex relationships between the local media and other social actors still exist. On the basis of my own qualitative research case studies conducted in four small towns in Poland, this article shows how complex the local relations are and describes the involvement of local journalists and local media owners in these networks of relations which might often be a cause of conflicts of interest individual or institutional or media bias. 

scholarly journals Deforestation governance in the Amazon from a Strategic Action Fields perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcelo Sampaio Carneiro ◽  
William Santos Assis ◽  
Ulisses Denache Vieira Souza ◽  
Lidielze Dourado
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Satellite Images ◽  
Strategic Action ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Control Actions ◽  
Black List ◽  
Governance Processes ◽  
The City

Abstract The article seeks to analyze the development of deforestation governance actions in the Amazon, based on the analysis of two case studies using the Strategic Action Fields theory (FLIGSTEIN; MCADAM, 2012). It analyzes the experience of mobilization for the removal of the city of Paragominas/PA from the deforestation Black List and the development of deforestation control actions in the São Jorge settlement, in the city of Cidelândia / Maranhão. Interviews with main actors and satellite images were used to analyze the two cases. The results indicate the relevance of using the Strategic Action Fields theory to gain an understanding of deforestation governance processes in the Amazon, highlighting the importance of central concepts to this theory, such as the performance of skilled social actors and the construction of internal units of governance.

“Del florido caudal que estaba en caxa”: La administración de los capitales del ramo de temporalidades jesuitas en Buenos Aires, 1767-1803

2017 ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
María Valeria Ciliberto
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Regional Economy ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Rio De La Plata ◽  
Río De La Plata ◽  
Economic Changes ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
La Plata ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
The Impact

La administración de las temporalidades jesuitas rioplatenses ha sido abordada por la historiografía a partir del análisis de estudios de caso que han precisado la naturaleza de los cambios económicos generados por el extrañamiento en los espacios ocupados por la Compañía. Estas investigaciones interpretaron la actuación de los funcionarios desde el prisma de la corrupción colonial, señalando fraudes y malversaciones pero sin detenerse en analizar los mecanismos que a nivel micro se implementaron para beneficiar a los intereses vernáculos. Nuestra investigación estudia una de estas dinámicas focalizando el análisis en los censos otorgados por las temporalidades porteñas. Puntualmente, reconstruimos las transacciones crediticias autorizadas por las Juntas de Buenos Aires, identificando actores sociales intervinientes, montos de los capitales otorgados, plazos de pago y réditos estipulados a fin de evaluar desde esta perspectiva el impacto del reformismo en el desarrollo de la economía regional.Palabras clave: Río de la Plata, temporalidades, censos, deudas.“Of the flowery flow that was in caxa”:The Administration of the Capitals of the Branch of JesuitTemporalities in Buenos Aires, 1767-1803AbstractThe administration of the Jesuits Temporalities of Río de la Plata has been approached by historiography from the analysis of case studies that have specified the nature of the economic changes generated by the estrangement in the spaces occupied by the Company. These investigations interpreted the actions of the officials from the perspective of colonial corruption, pointing out frauds and embezzlements but without analyzing the mechanisms that were implemented at the micro level to benefit the vernacular interests. Our research studies one of these dynamics focusing the analysis in the censuses granted by the Temporalities of Buenos Aires. Punctually, we reconstruct the credit transactions authorized by the Boards of Buenos Aires, identifying social actors involved, amounts of capitals granted, payment terms and stipulated revenues in order to evaluate the impact of reformism on the development of the regional economy from this perspective.Keywords: Río de la Plata, temporalities, censuses, debts“O florido caudal que estava em caixa”: A administração dos capitais da classe de temporalidades jesuítas em Buenos Aires, 1767-1803.ResumoA administração das Temporalidades jesuítas rio-platenses foi abordada pela historiografia a partir da análise de estudos de caso que esclareceram a natureza das mudanças económicas causadas pelos desterros nos espaços ocupados pela Companhia. Estas investigações interpretaram a ação dos funcionários desde o prisma da corrupção colonial, sinalando fraudes e malversações, mas sem se deter para analisar os mecanismos realizados no nível micro, para beneficiar os interesses vernáculos. Nossa pesquisa estuda uma destas dinâmicas focando a análise nos censos outorgados pelas Temporalidades Portenhas. Especificamente, reconstruímos as operações de crédito autorizadas pelos Conselhos de Buenos Aires identificando atores sociais envolvidas, monto do capital concedido, prazos de pagamento e as utilidades estipuladas para avaliar dessa perspectiva o impacto do reformismo no desenvolvimento da economia regional.Palavras-chave: Rio da Prata, temporalidades, censos, dívidas

Negotiating power from the margins: Encountering everyday experiences and contestations to REDD + in Southern Tanzania

2021 ◽  
pp. 251484862110528
Author(s):  
Danstan Mukono ◽  
Richard Faustine Sambaiga ◽  
Lyla Mehta
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Forest Degradation ◽  
Global South ◽  
Development Model ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Conservation Policies ◽  
Power And Resistance ◽  
Everyday Experiences ◽  
Context Specific

This paper provides an account of everyday discursive and material practises deployed by marginalised forest-dependent groups in the course of resisting the implementation of Reduced Emission from Deforestation and forest degradation (REDD + ) and conservation regulations. Available literature have documented extensively that REDD + market-based models across the Global South, and Tanzania in particular, have led to increasing inequality, injustices, and exclusions. Nevertheless, there is little attention to exploring how different social actors that are unequally positioned resist exclusions. The paper explores selected case studies of marginalised forest-dependent groups in Lindi, Southern Tanzania, who creatively work to negotiate unequal power relations through a range of encounters around REDD+. Our analysis shows unequal social, spatial, and environmental ramifications of market-based conservation policies and strategies that have led to different kinds of material and discursive resistance to challenge exclusions. In doing so, it provides critical context-specific realities from the Global South and, specifically, Tanzanian scholarship to focus on both the dynamics of power and resistance in socially differentiated forest-dependent groups affected by envisioned market-based and development model-led conservation regimes.

Religion, Resistance, and Contentious Politics in China (中国的宗教、抵抗与抗争政治)

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-166
Author(s):  
André Laliberté
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Communist Party ◽  
Contentious Politics ◽  
The State ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Communist Party Of China ◽  
Religious Background

In this essay, I present the concepts of religious resistance and contentious politics, in which religions represent a source of inspiration, before moving to the issue of how these concepts apply to China. I note that there is little literature on this particular subject, which is always politically sensitive. As the Communist Party of China has increasingly recognized the relevance of religion in contemporary society, it has tried to keep it in check and thereby ensure that independent associations with a religious background will not become involved in contentious politics. This article then briefly introduces the four case studies in this special issue on the theme of religion and contentious politics in China: two cases of persecution of Christians and Catholics during the period of Mao, and two articles about Buddhism, which has a more complex relationship with the state.本文首先阐述了宗教抵抗与抗争政治的概念—其中宗教发挥了启发鼓舞的作用而后将之用于分析中国经验。由于政治敏感性，有关此议题的文献很少。因为逐渐意识到宗教在当代社会中的重要性，中国共产党试图管控宗教防止具有宗教背景的独立团体参与抗争政治。本文最后介绍本期中有关中国宗教与抗争政治的四篇个案研究：两篇文章讨论毛泽东时期对基督徒和天主教徒的压迫，另外两篇是关于佛教及其与国家的复杂关系。

scholarly journals Taking to the Streets

2014 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 111-114
Author(s):  
Jacob Høigilt
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Arab Spring ◽  
Political Sociology ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Contentious Politics ◽  
Back Cover ◽  
Middle Eastern Studies ◽  
The Arab Spring

This edited volume consists of ten case studies framed by an introductionwritten by the two editors and a postscript written by Larry Diamond, a leadingscholar of democracy studies today. The Introduction, which places thevolume within the tradition of political sociology and political science, relatesexplicitly to the study of contentious politics and social movements.In doing so, it contributes to a trend in Middle Eastern studies that startedduring the early 2000s in analyses of Islamism and that seeks to add insightsto a field that has so far been relatively neglectful of the Middle Easterncontext.The book promises to “illuminate the concept of activism as an ongoingprocess, rather than a sudden burst of defiance” (back cover) by critically examiningthe ideas that the Arab Spring emerged “from nowhere” and wasdriven by “tech-savvy, disgruntled youth” (p. 2). It sets out to explore the natureof activism before, during, and after the uprisings, as well as how the ...

Sorcery in the Black Atlantic: The Occult Arts in Comparative Perspective

2013 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren Derby
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Atlantic World ◽  
Black Atlantic ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Comparative Framework ◽  
History Of

Three recent volumes—Parés and Sansi (eds.), Sorcery in the Black Atlantic; Paton and Forde (eds.), Obeah and Other Powers; and Sweet, Domingos Álvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World—set a new bar for scholarship about Caribbean and Latin American sorcery, stressing its contingency as well as its transnational and cosmopolitan aspects. Their richly contextualized case studies of African-derived practices related to illness and health, as well as the quotidian experience of slaves outside the plantation, challenge the most entrenched assumptions about sorcery and extend its use to a range of social actors, not just slaves. In the process, they serve to relocate the practice of sorcery in Latin America within a broad comparative framework that includes Europe and the Americas as well as Africa.

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