Breaching the civil order : radicalism and the civil sphere

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Label

Breaching the civil order : radicalism and the civil sphere

Title remainder

radicalism and the civil sphere

Statement of responsibility

edited by Jeffrey C. Alexander, Trevor Stack, Farhad Khosrokhavar

Contributor

• Khosrokhavar, Farhad
• Alexander, Jeffrey C., 1947-
• Stack, Trevor, 1970-

Editor

• Stack, Trevor, 1970-
• Alexander, Jeffrey C., 1947-
• Khosrokhavar, Farhad

Subject

• Violence -- Social aspects -- Case studies
• Protest movements -- Case studies
• Radicalism -- Case studies
• Civil society -- Case studies

Genre

• Case studies

Language

eng

Summary

It is not only a paradox but something of an intellectual scandal that, in an era so shaken by radical actions and ideologies, social science has had nothing theoretically new to say about radicalism since the middle of the last century. Breaching the Civil Order fills this void. It argues that, rather than seeing radicalism in substantive terms - as violent or militant, communist or fascist - radicalism should be seen more broadly as any organized effort to breach the civil order. The theory is brilliantly made flesh in a series of case studies by leading European and American social scientists, from the destruction of property in the London race riots to the public militancy of Black Lives Matter in the US, the performative violence of the Irish IRA and the Mexican Zapatistas to the democratic upheavals of the Arab Spring, and from Islamic terrorism in France to Germany's right-wing populist Pegida

Cataloging source

UkCbUP

Dewey number

303.48/4

Index

index present

LC call number

HM883

LC item number

.B74 2020

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries