Charles Tilly & Sidney Tarrow: Contentious Politics

December 4, 2006 / 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm

Labyrinth Books
536 West 112th Street
New York, NY 10025

From Labyrinth:

Revolutions, social movements, religious and ethnic conflict, nationalism and civil rights, and transnational movements: these forms of contentious politics combine in Charles Tilly’s and Sidney Tarrow’s Contentious Politics . The book presents a set of analytical tools and procedures for study, comparison, and explanation of these very different sorts of contention. Drawing on many historical and contemporary cases, the book shows that similar principles describe and explain a wide variety of struggles as well as many more routine forms of politics. Tilly and Tarrow have written the book to introduce readers to an exciting new program of political and sociological analysis.

Charles Tilly is Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science at Columbia University and is the author most recently of Why? (Princeton University Press, 2006), which was reviewed by Malcolm Gladwell at The New Yorker.

Sidney Tarrow is Maxwell M. Upson Professor of Government and Professor of Sociology at Cornell. His latest books are The New Transnational Activism (Cambridge University Press, 2005) and (with Donatella della Porta, eds.) Transnational Protest And Global Activism (Rowman and Littlefield, 2004).