Ernesto Castañeda

Cathy Lisa Schneider

Charles Tilly es uno de los sociólogos más influyentes de los últimos tiempos. Por primera vez su trabajo está disponible en esta antología en español, la cual recorre temas como las revoluciones y el cambio social; guerra, formación del Estado y crimen organizado; democratización; desigualdad estructural; violencia política; migración, raza y etnicidad; narraciones y explicaciones. Por otra parte, vincula el trabajo del autor sobre procesos de gran escala, como la construcción de naciones y la guerra, con su trabajo acerca de procesos micro, tales como discriminación racial y de género. Incluye la selección de algunos de sus primeros escritos, importantes pero no fácilmente disponibles, así como de su más reciente obra que revela su visión compleja, convincente y distintiva, y ayuda a ubicar en un contexto más amplio el enfoque de la política contenciosa, del que Tilly fue pionero. Este conjunto de textos proporciona una hoja de ruta del trabajo de Tilly y su contribución a los campos de la sociología, las ciencias políticas, la historia y los estudios internacionales que servirán de guía para aquellos que deseen estudiar su obra con mayor profundidad o usar su metodología para estudiar los temas acuciantes del momento, además de que será de utilidad para científicos sociales, analistas políticos, estudiantes y activistas.

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Charles Tilly: sobre violencia colectiva, política contenciosa y cambio social

Charles Tilly is among the most influential American sociologists of the last century. For the first time, his pathbreaking work on a wide array of topics is available in one comprehensive reader. This manageable and readable volume brings together many highlights of Tilly’s large and important oeuvre, covering his contribution to the following areas: revolutions and social change; war, state making, and organized crime; democratization; durable inequality; political violence; migration, race, and ethnicity; narratives and explanations. The book connects Tilly’s work on large-scale social processes such as nation-building and war to his work on micro processes such as racial and gender discrimination. It includes selections from some of Tilly’s earliest, influential, and out of print writings, including The Vendée; Coercion, Capital and European States; the classic "War Making and State Making as Organized Crime;" and his more recent and lesser-known work, including that on durable inequality, democracy, poverty, economic development, and migration. Together, the collection reveals Tilly’s complex, compelling, and distinctive vision and helps place the contentious politics approach Tilly pioneered with Sidney Tarrow and Doug McAdam into broader context. The editors abridge key texts and, in their introductory essay, situate them within Tilly’s larger opus and contemporary intellectual debates. The chapters serve as guideposts for those who wish to study his work in greater depth or use his methodology to examine the pressing issues of our time. Read together, they provide a road map of Tilly’s work and his contribution to the fields of sociology, political science, history, and international studies. This book belongs in the classroom and in the library of social scientists, political analysts, cultural critics, and activists.

A Charles Tilly Reader

Collective Violence, Contentious Politics, and Social Change

Three weeks after Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a New York City police officer shot and killed a fifteen-year-old black youth, inciting the first of almost a decade of black and Latino riots throughout the United States. In October 2005, French police chased three black and Arab teenagers into an electrical substation outside Paris, culminating in the fatal electrocution of two of them. Fires blazed in Parisian suburbs and housing projects throughout France for three consecutive weeks. Cathy Lisa Schneider explores the political, legal, and economic conditions that led to violent confrontations in neighborhoods on opposite sides of the Atlantic half a century apart. Police Power and Race Riots traces the history of urban upheaval in New York and greater Paris, focusing on the interaction between police and minority youth. Schneider shows that riots erupted when elites activated racial boundaries, police engaged in racialized violence, and racial minorities lacked alternative avenues of redress. She also demonstrates how local activists who cut their teeth on the American race riots painstakingly constructed social movement organizations with standard nonviolent repertoires for dealing with police violence. These efforts, along with the opening of access to courts of law for ethnic and racial minorities, have made riots a far less common response to police violence in the United States today. Rich in historical and ethnographic detail, Police Power and Race Riots offers a compelling account of the processes that fan the flames of urban unrest and the dynamics that subsequently quell the fires.

Cathy Lisa Schneider

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