POLB91H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Shared Experience, Intentionality, Neoliberalism
POLB91 – Lecture 4
Protest and tactical innovation
Repertoires of contention
• Distinctive constellations of tactics and strategies (strategic performances) developed
over time and used by protest groups to act collectively in order to make and receive
claims on individuals and groups
• They use more than one tactic
Thee’s 2 distict sets of tactical Repertoires of contention
Pre 19th century
• Older forms of action
• All have disappeared and replaced by Repertoires of non violence contention
• Public executions
• Destruction of properties of public figures
• Parochial
particular
• Bifurcated
19th century
• Electoral rallies, safer and more peaceful
• All the old ones basically disappeared
• Cosmopolitan (facilitating claims on much of a larger scale. Ex. Worldwide too.)
• Modular (can easily transfer place to place, universal, group to group)
• Autonomous
Features of Repertoires of contention
• Sites of contestation (ex. Fem. Naked lady documentary. Using their body to pursue a
change. Ex. How they chainsawed the cross)
• Intentionality (Need to have intentionality to instate the social change. Cannot be
adopted by accident.)
• Solidarity/oppositional or shared consciousness (has to have an oppositional group to
challenge this and have identify. Shared experience or collective of class is important for
an identity). Solidarity and collective identity is difficult to get.
Rise of new social movements
• Macros historical conditions and changes that contributed to the arise of middle class
movements centred around identity and public goods. (old movements were more
about demanding physical materials and things vs this is more like LGBT protests/
animal rights activists)
o Nature of political authority
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