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Protest, Popular Culture and Tradition in Modern and Contemporary Western Europe.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Publisher: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (286 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781137507372
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 361.2/3094
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Contents:
Intro -- Series Editors' Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Looking Backward to Move Forward-Why Appreciating Tradition Can Improve Our Understanding of Modern Protest -- Note -- References -- Chapter 2: "The Modernity of Tradition": Popular Culture and Protest in Nineteenth-Century Germany -- Carnival -- Charivaris -- Parish Festivals -- Religion -- Antisemitism -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3: Charivari and the 1876 Italian Elections -- The Case of Vergato -- The Case of Ravenna -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4: Peasant Resistance Traditions and the Irish War of Independence, 1918-21 -- Irish Rural Resistance: 'Agrarianism' During the Long Nineteenth Century -- Catholic Emancipation and Repeal Agitation, "The Tithe War" and Land Wars -- The Irish Revolution, Boycotts and the Boundaries of Popular Resistance -- Collective Disobedience -- Popular Resistance and the IRA Campaign -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5: A Fight for the Right to Get Drunk: The Autumn Fair Riot in Eskilstuna, 1937 -- Protest, Popular Culture and Tradition in Eskilstuna, 1800-1950 -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 6: Italian Anarchism and Popular Culture: History of a Close Relationship -- A Canon for the Italian Anarchist Movement: Pietro Gori and Popular Culture -- Anarchists and Folk Protest -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 7: Persistent Repertoires of Contention in Portugal: From Tax Riots to Anti-­communist Violence (1840-1975) -- The "Hot Summer" of 1975 -- The Long-Term Perspective -- Popular Violence and the State -- Functions and Symbolism of Siege, Ransacking and Burning -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 8: Carnivalesque and Charivari Repertoires in 1960s and 1970s Italian Protest -- Introduction.
The Revival of Carnivalesque Rituals and Repertoires in Factory Protest of the 1960s and 1970s -- Explaining the Carnivalization of Worker Protest -- "La rivoluzione è una festa": Youth Protest After 1968 -- Italian Underground Activism and the Revival of Folk Culture -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 9: Popular Justice and Informal Politics: The Charivari in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century France -- The Waning and Transformation of the Political Charivari in France in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries -- Political Charivaris and the Road Towards Republicanism -- The Rural Charivari and Political Dissent -- Decline of the Political Charivari -- Charivari by Another Name? New Forms of Politicization in the Twentieth Century -- Survival at the Edges: Politicization of the Charivari in the Basque Country -- Traditional Sanctions -- Community Control or "Pre-political" Motivation? -- The Rarity of Political Charivaris -- Repression and Weakening of the Charivari -- Death and Revival of the Custom: Towards Formal Politicization? -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 10: Tactical Carnival and the Global Justice Movement: The Clown Army and Clownfrontational Protest -- CIRCA: The Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army -- Of Western Gnomes and Eastern Dwarves -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 11: Conclusion: Popular Culture, Folk Traditions and Protest-A Research Agenda -- From Festival to Rebellion, and Vice Versa -- An Extended Range of Protest Repertoires Inherited from Folk Culture -- Speaking for the People: Repertoires of Contention Chosen for Symbolic Effectiveness -- A Selective and Tactical Use of Inherited Repertoires -- The Multidirectional Political Uses of Folk Culture -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 12: Afterwords: Old and New Repertoires of Contention -- References -- Index.
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Intro -- Series Editors' Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Looking Backward to Move Forward-Why Appreciating Tradition Can Improve Our Understanding of Modern Protest -- Note -- References -- Chapter 2: "The Modernity of Tradition": Popular Culture and Protest in Nineteenth-Century Germany -- Carnival -- Charivaris -- Parish Festivals -- Religion -- Antisemitism -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3: Charivari and the 1876 Italian Elections -- The Case of Vergato -- The Case of Ravenna -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4: Peasant Resistance Traditions and the Irish War of Independence, 1918-21 -- Irish Rural Resistance: 'Agrarianism' During the Long Nineteenth Century -- Catholic Emancipation and Repeal Agitation, "The Tithe War" and Land Wars -- The Irish Revolution, Boycotts and the Boundaries of Popular Resistance -- Collective Disobedience -- Popular Resistance and the IRA Campaign -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5: A Fight for the Right to Get Drunk: The Autumn Fair Riot in Eskilstuna, 1937 -- Protest, Popular Culture and Tradition in Eskilstuna, 1800-1950 -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 6: Italian Anarchism and Popular Culture: History of a Close Relationship -- A Canon for the Italian Anarchist Movement: Pietro Gori and Popular Culture -- Anarchists and Folk Protest -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 7: Persistent Repertoires of Contention in Portugal: From Tax Riots to Anti-­communist Violence (1840-1975) -- The "Hot Summer" of 1975 -- The Long-Term Perspective -- Popular Violence and the State -- Functions and Symbolism of Siege, Ransacking and Burning -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 8: Carnivalesque and Charivari Repertoires in 1960s and 1970s Italian Protest -- Introduction.

The Revival of Carnivalesque Rituals and Repertoires in Factory Protest of the 1960s and 1970s -- Explaining the Carnivalization of Worker Protest -- "La rivoluzione è una festa": Youth Protest After 1968 -- Italian Underground Activism and the Revival of Folk Culture -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 9: Popular Justice and Informal Politics: The Charivari in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century France -- The Waning and Transformation of the Political Charivari in France in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries -- Political Charivaris and the Road Towards Republicanism -- The Rural Charivari and Political Dissent -- Decline of the Political Charivari -- Charivari by Another Name? New Forms of Politicization in the Twentieth Century -- Survival at the Edges: Politicization of the Charivari in the Basque Country -- Traditional Sanctions -- Community Control or "Pre-political" Motivation? -- The Rarity of Political Charivaris -- Repression and Weakening of the Charivari -- Death and Revival of the Custom: Towards Formal Politicization? -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 10: Tactical Carnival and the Global Justice Movement: The Clown Army and Clownfrontational Protest -- CIRCA: The Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army -- Of Western Gnomes and Eastern Dwarves -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 11: Conclusion: Popular Culture, Folk Traditions and Protest-A Research Agenda -- From Festival to Rebellion, and Vice Versa -- An Extended Range of Protest Repertoires Inherited from Folk Culture -- Speaking for the People: Repertoires of Contention Chosen for Symbolic Effectiveness -- A Selective and Tactical Use of Inherited Repertoires -- The Multidirectional Political Uses of Folk Culture -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 12: Afterwords: Old and New Repertoires of Contention -- References -- Index.

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