When everyday life, routine politics, and protest meet

Theory and Society

Volumn 33, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 417-441

  Auyero, Javier ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 20844448394     PISSN: 03042421     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:RYSO.0000038601.96020.2c     Document Type: Review

References (27)

1. See, Charles Tilly, The Contentious French (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1986); "Contentious Repertoires in Great Britain," in Mark Traugott, editor, Repertoires and Cycles of Collective Action (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1995).
2. See, Charles Tilly, The Contentious French (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1986); "Contentious Repertoires in Great Britain," in Mark Traugott, editor, Repertoires and Cycles of Collective Action (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1995).
3. Clifford Geertz, Available Light: Anthropological Reflections on Philosophical Topics (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001).
4. Charles Tilly, "Contentious Repertoires in Great Britain," 26.
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6. Charles Tilly, The Contentious French, 390-391.
7. Sidney Tarrow, "The People's Two Rhythms: Charles Tilly and the Study of Contentious Politics," Comparative Studies in Society and History 2 (1996): 586-600.
8. Charles Tilly, Roads From Past to Future (Lanham, MA: Rowman and Littlefield, 1997), 27.
9. On framing (and its critics) as a central element in the emergence and course of mobilization, see Robert Benford and David Snow, "Framing Processes and Social Movements: An Overview and Assessment," Annual Review of Sociology 26 (2000): 611-639; David Snow and Robert Benford, "Ideology, Frame Resonance, and Participant Mobilization," in Bert Klandermans, Hanspeter Kriesi and Sidney Tarrow, editors, From Structure to Action: Comparing Social Movement Research (Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1988), 197-217; Francesca Polletta, "Contending Stories: Narrative in Social Movements," Qualitative Sociology 21/4 (1998): 419-446; Mark Steinberg, Fighting Words. Working-Class Formation, Collective Action, and Discourse in Early Nineteenth-Century England (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1999).
10. On framing (and its critics) as a central element in the emergence and course of mobilization, see Robert Benford and David Snow, "Framing Processes and Social Movements: An Overview and Assessment," Annual Review of Sociology 26 (2000): 611-639; David Snow and Robert Benford, "Ideology, Frame Resonance, and Participant Mobilization," in Bert Klandermans, Hanspeter Kriesi and Sidney Tarrow, editors, From Structure to Action: Comparing Social Movement Research (Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1988), 197-217; Francesca Polletta, "Contending Stories: Narrative in Social Movements," Qualitative Sociology 21/4 (1998): 419-446; Mark Steinberg, Fighting Words. Working-Class Formation, Collective Action, and Discourse in Early Nineteenth-Century England (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1999).
11. On framing (and its critics) as a central element in the emergence and course of mobilization, see Robert Benford and David Snow, "Framing Processes and Social Movements: An Overview and Assessment," Annual Review of Sociology 26 (2000): 611-639; David Snow and Robert Benford, "Ideology, Frame Resonance, and Participant Mobilization," in Bert Klandermans, Hanspeter Kriesi and Sidney Tarrow, editors, From Structure to Action: Comparing Social Movement Research (Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1988), 197-217; Francesca Polletta, "Contending Stories: Narrative in Social Movements," Qualitative Sociology 21/4 (1998): 419-446; Mark Steinberg, Fighting Words. Working-Class Formation, Collective Action, and Discourse in Early Nineteenth-Century England (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1999).
12. On framing (and its critics) as a central element in the emergence and course of mobilization, see Robert Benford and David Snow, "Framing Processes and Social Movements: An Overview and Assessment," Annual Review of Sociology 26 (2000): 611-639; David Snow and Robert Benford, "Ideology, Frame Resonance, and Participant Mobilization," in Bert Klandermans, Hanspeter Kriesi and Sidney Tarrow, editors, From Structure to Action: Comparing Social Movement Research (Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1988), 197-217; Francesca Polletta, "Contending Stories: Narrative in Social Movements," Qualitative Sociology 21/4 (1998): 419-446; Mark Steinberg, Fighting Words. Working-Class Formation, Collective Action, and Discourse in Early Nineteenth-Century England (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1999).
13. Months before, in the party primaries (internas) current Governor Sosbich allied with Cutral-co former Mayor Grittini against then time Governor Sapag. Sapag won the primaries and Mayor Martinasso, who initially sided with Sosbisch-Grittini, switched factions and join Sapag's group.
14. An "injustice frame" is a mode of interpretation - prefatory to protest - produced and adopted by those who classify the actions of an authority as unjust. See William Gamson, "The Social Psychology of Collective Action," in Aldon Morris and Carol McClurg Mueller, editors, Frontiers in Social Movement Theory (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992).
15. For classic statement on resource mobilization theory, see John McCarthy and Mayer Zald, "Resource Mobilization and Social Movements," American Journal of Sociology 82 (1977): 1212-1241; Craig Jenkins, "Resource Mobilization Theory," Annual Review of Sociology 9 (1983): 213.
16. For classic statement on resource mobilization theory, see John McCarthy and Mayer Zald, "Resource Mobilization and Social Movements," American Journal of Sociology 82 (1977): 1212-1241; Craig Jenkins, "Resource Mobilization Theory," Annual Review of Sociology 9 (1983): 213.
17. Orietta Favaro and Mario Bucciarelli, "Efectos de la privatización De YPF: La desagregación territorial del espacio Neuquino?" Realidad Económica 127 (1994): 88-99.
18. Orietta Favaro, Mario Bucciarelli and Graciela Luomo, "La conflictividad social en Neuquén. El movimiento cutralquense y los nuevos sujetos socials," Realidad Económica 148 (1997): 13-27.
19. Laura's personal troubles are indeed political in the sense that feminism, broadly understood, speaks of the term "political" but not in the sense that Laura herself gives to the term. When speaking of "politics" and "political" I am referring to indigenous categories, that is, to the definitions that actors themselves adopt: Politics, in this sense, mean "party politics."
20. Apparently (and this has been confirmed by many local sources), some of the organizers of the protest do not want protesters to interrupt the distribution of gasoline and oil to nearby areas (former mayor Grittini, for one, is the owner of many gas stations in the area).
21. In this sense, this crowd was a textbook example of WUNC, the term coined by Tilly to refer to the worthiness, unity, numbers, and commitment displayed by participants in collective action around the world. See, Charles Tilly, "WUNC," draft chapter for Jeffrey T. Schnapp and Matthew Tiews, editors, Crowds (Stanford University Press, 2005).
22. Here, I am closely following Gould's approach to protesters' self-understandings. According to him, a participatory identity is "the social identification with respect to which an individual responds in a given instance of social protest to specific normative and instrumental appeals." Roger Gould, Insurgent Identities: Class, Community, and Protest in Paris From 1848 to the Commune (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995), 13.
23. A similar process, attesting to the relevance of symbolic struggle during episodes of contention (this time between Chinese students and authorities during the Tiananmen protest), is described in Craig Calhoun, Neither Gods nor Emperors. Students and the Struggle for Democracy in China (California: California University Press, 1995).
24. Lee makes a similar argument with respect to the memories of Maoist socialism at the basis of Chinese workers' collective actions. Ching Kwan Lee, "The 'Revenge of History'. Collective Memories and Labor Protests in North-Eastern China," Ethnography 1/2 (2000): 217-237.
25. See, among others, James Rule, Theories of Civil Violence (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1988); and Beth Roy, Some Trouble with Cows (Berkeley, CA: California University Press, 1994).
26. See, among others, James Rule, Theories of Civil Violence (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1988); and Beth Roy, Some Trouble with Cows (Berkeley, CA: California University Press, 1994).
27. Charles Tilly, "How to Detect, Describe, and Explain Repertoires of Contention," Center for the Study of Social Change, New School for Social Research, The Working Paper Series 150 (1992): 6.