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Since 2010 we have witnessed new ways of assembling, which have made the word »democracy« sound important again. These practices may not have led to the political changes we had hoped for. Nevertheless, we are convinced of their importance. This book wants to acknowledge them as a starting point for a new art of being many: The »many« invoke new concepts of collectivity by renegotiating their modes of participation and (self-)presentation and by rewriting rhetorical, choreographical, and material scripts of assembling. This volume is inspired and informed by the square-occupations and neighborhood assemblies of the »real democracy« movements as well as by recent explorations of the assembly form in performance art and participatory theatre. Besprochen in: Zivilgesellschaft Info, 30.03.2017
Theater rehearsals. --- Collective behavior. --- Crowds. --- Persons --- Collective behavior --- Riots --- Behavior, Collective --- Crowd behavior --- Crowds --- Mass behavior --- Human behavior --- Social action --- Social psychology --- Rehearsals, Theater --- Psychology --- Art; Activism; Democracy; Assembly; Politics; Culture; Civil Society; Social Relations; Cultural Studies; Social Movements --- Activism. --- Assembly. --- Civil Society. --- Cultural Studies. --- Culture. --- Democracy. --- Politics. --- Social Movements. --- Social Relations.
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Political revolutions, economic meltdowns, mass ideological conversions and collective innovation adoptions occur often, but when they do happen, they tend to be the least expected. Based on the paradigm of 'leading from the periphery', this groundbreaking analysis offers an explanation for such spontaneity and apparent lack of leadership in contentious collective action. Contrary to existing theories, the author argues that network effects in collective action originating from marginal leaders can benefit from a total lack of communication. Such network effects persist in isolated islands of contention instead of overarching action cascades, and are shown to escalate in globally dispersed, but locally concentrated networks of contention. This is a trait that can empower marginal leaders and set forth social dynamics distinct from those originating in the limelight. Leading from the Periphery and Network Collective Action provides evidence from two Middle Eastern uprisings, as well as behavioral experiments of collective risk-taking in social networks.
Collective behavior --- Social networks --- Political sociology. --- Protest movements. --- Social movements. --- Movements, Social --- Social history --- Social psychology --- Social movements --- Mass political behavior --- Political behavior --- Political science --- Sociology --- Networking, Social --- Networks, Social --- Social networking --- Social support systems --- Support systems, Social --- Interpersonal relations --- Cliques (Sociology) --- Microblogs --- Behavior, Collective --- Crowd behavior --- Crowds --- Mass behavior --- Human behavior --- Social action --- Political aspects. --- Sociological aspects --- Psychology
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