Situational breakdowns : understanding protest violence and other surprising outcomes / Anne Nassauer

Author:: Nassauer, Anne, 1982-
Published:: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]
Physical Description:: xx, 261 pages ; 25 cm.

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Oxford studies in culture and politics

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Rostock, June 2007 -- Kehl, April 2009 -- Situational Breakdowns and Surprising Outcomes -- Studying Surprising Outcomes -- Motivations, Strategies, and Culture -- What's Coming -- 1.Protest Groups and Physical Violence -- Protest Groups and Police Reactions -- What Is meant by Violence? -- 2.The (Lack of) Power of The Violent Few -- Who Are the "Violent Few"? From the 1960s to the Black Bloc -- What Do the "Violent Few" Want? -- Anarchism and Vandalism -- Property Damage as Claim-Making -- The Violent Few as Media Scapegoats? -- Stirring Up the Crowd? The "Violently Few" and Outbreaks of Violence -- Motivations and Physical Violence -- 3.The Police's Fault? -- Police Strategies and Police Actions -- Police Strategies and Their (Non-)Implementation -- Escalated Force Policing Equals Violence? -- Police Strategies and Agents Provocateurs -- Police Mismanagement -- Rostock, 2007: "That Was Operational Idiocy" -- New York, 1988: "Not Well Planned, Staffed, or Executed" -- St. Paul, 2008: "No One Was Seeing the Big Picture" -- 4.Losing Control -- Invasions -- Spatial Incursions -- Spatial Incursions and Violence -- Territories and Protest Dynamics -- The Loss-of-Control Path to Violence -- Tompkins Square Park Protest: Losing Control over the Park -- Vietnam War Protest: Trying to Guard the Pentagon -- Feeling Powerless -- A Police Culture of Control -- Loss of Control: A Rarity -- Police Culture and Police Objectives -- Police Training and Professionalism -- 5.Expecting the Worst -- "Where Were they? When Would They strike?" -- Escalation Signs -- Broken Class -- Pre-emptive Strikes -- 6.Uncertainty -- The Others' Intentions -- Missing Information -- Brokdorf Power Plant Protest, 1981 -- Where Communication Stops and Mistrust Begins -- 7.In The Tunnel of Violence -- Don't Turn Your Back -- Tension and Fear -- Triggering Moments -- The Intensity of Violence -- How Violent Situations End -- Excessive Violence -- Forward Panics -- Washington, DC, 1967: A 20-Minute Wait and a Moment of Surprise -- New York, 1988: Chaos, No Leadership, and a Police Riot -- Cruelty and Prolonged Fear -- 8.How to Keep Protests Peaceful -- Boredom Is the Answer -- Police Management -- Territorial Boundaries -- Communication -- Expected Routines -- Don't Forget the Batteries: Practical Guidelines -- 9.Situational Breakdowns Beyond Protest Violence -- Situational Breakdowns Beyond Protest Marches -- Police Shootings and (the Rarity of) Violent Uprisings -- "Hands Up, Don't Shoot!"---The Ferguson Uprisings -- Black Lives Matter---Baltimore, 2015 -- Avoiding Violent Clashes? -- Violent Uprisings as Routine Breaks -- Situational Breakdowns Beyond Violence -- "Creating" a Robbery -- Situational Breakdowns in Armed Store Robberies -- Key Dynamics at the Micro-level of Crime? -- Conclusion: Situational Breakdowns---Surprising Outcomes In Protests And Beyond -- In a Nutshell -- External Validity -- Theoretical Implications -- Motivations Versus Situations, Emotion versus Rationality -- Collective and Individual Reinterpretations -- Expectations, Culture, and Violence -- Are We Violent ... or Peaceful? -- Research Implications -- Protest Policing and Protest Violence -- Structural and Individual Aspects of Forward Panics -- Expanding to Further Outcomes, Countries, and Protests -- Roots of Inhibition to Violence -- Concluding Remarks: Everyday Life and Fear of Violence -- Appendix A Studying Situational Dynamics in the Twenty-First Century -- Appendix B Methodological Notes on Studying Protest Violence -- Case Selection and Sampling -- Video Data Analysis -- Qualitative Comparative Analysis -- Identifying Mechanisms and Processes to Violence -- Sequence Analysis -- Participant Observation and Interviews -- Appendix C Methodological Notes on Studying Uprisings -- Case Selection -- Data and Analysis -- Appendix D Methodological Notes on Studying Robberies -- YouTube and CCTV Data on Crime -- Case Selection and Sampling -- Analyzing Actions, Movement, and Emotions.

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9780190922061 hardcover alkaline paper and 0190922060 hardcover alkaline paper

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Includes bibliographical references.

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