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

Context of reception, individual experience, and urban belonging -- New York : work but no papers -- Paris : few cultural rights -- Barcelona : deliberate integration -- Religion and immigrant integration -- Urban belonging : objective milestones and subjective interpretations

Immigrant Exclusion and Urban Belonging in New York, Paris, and Barcelona

A Place to Call Home

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

This volume provides information and analyses to better grasp the social implications of geographical borders as well as the individuals who travel between them and those who live in border regions. Sociologists, anthropologists, philosophers, linguists, and scholars of international relations and public health are just some of the authors contributing to Rethinking Borders. The diversity in the authors’ disciplines and the topics they focus on exemplify the intricacies of borders and their manifold effects. This openness to so many schools of thought stands in contrast to the solidification of stricter borders across the globe. The contributions range from case studies of migrants’ sense of belonging and safety to theoretical discussions about migration and globalization, from empirical studies about immigrant practices and exclusionary laws to ethical concerns about the benefits of inclusion. It is timely that this collective work is published in the middle of a pandemic that has affected every single part of the world. Unprecedented border closures and stringent travel restrictions have not been enough to contain the virus entirely. As COVID-19 shows, diseases, ideas, and xenophobic and racist discourses know no borders. Plans that transcend borders are vital when dealing with global threats, such as climate change and pandemics.

Rethinking Borders

Reshaping the World

Immigration and Categorical Inequality explains the general processes of migration, the categorization of newcomers in urban areas as racial or ethnic others, and the mechanisms that perpetuate inequality among groups. Inspired by the pioneering work of Charles Tilly on chain migration, transnational communities, trust networks, and categorical inequality, renowned migration scholars apply Tilly’s theoretical concepts using empirical data gathered in different historical periods and geographical areas ranging from New York to Tokyo and from Barcelona to Nepal. The contributors of this volume demonstrate the ways in which social boundary mechanisms produce relational processes of durable categorical inequality. This understanding is an important step to stop treating differences between certain groups as natural and unchangeable. This volume will be valuable for scholars, students, and the public in general interested in understanding the periodic rise of nativism in the United States and elsewhere.

Migration to the City and the Birth of Race and Ethnicity

Immigration and Categorical Inequality

Charles Tilly

Lesley J. Wood

Social Movements 1768-2018 provides the most comprehensive historical account of the birth and spread of social movements. Renowned social scientist Charles Tilly applies his synthetic theoretical skills to explain the evolution of social movements across time and space in an accessible manner full of historical vignettes and examples. Tilly explains why social movements are but a type of contentious politics to decrease categorical inequalities. Questions addressed include what are the implications of globalization and new technologies for social movements, and what are the prospects for social movements? The overall argument includes data from mobilizations in England, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia, Russia, China, India, Argentina, Chile, Cuba, Mexico, Egypt, Tunisia, Iran, Iraq, and Kazakhstan. This new edition has been fully updated and revised with young researchers and students in mind. New case studies focus on social movements in Mexico, Spain, and the United States including Black Lives Matter, immigrants’ rights struggles, The Indignados, the Catalan movement for independence, #YoSoy132, Ayotzinapa43, mass incarceration and prisoner rights, and more. Timelines are included to familiarise the reader with the events discussed and discussion questions are framed to increase understanding of the implications, limits, and importance of historical and ongoing social movements.

Social Movements, 1768 - 2018

Building Walls puts the recent calls to build a border wall along the US-Mexico border into a larger social and historical context. Its three sections contrast categorical thinking and anti-immigrant speech with immigration as it is experienced by border residents and immigrants themselves.

Ernesto Castañeda

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