Political violence and social movements:

new frontiers in theory and research

Donatella della Porta with

Lorenzo Bosi and Xabier Itcaina

First Term Seminar 2013

Mondays, 3-5pm - Seminar Room 2, Badia Fiesolana

20 hours—20 credits

Please register with Adele Battistini (Adele.Battistini@eui.eu)

Research and theorization on political violence have much developed in recent years with focus on different forms. Empirical analyses have added new evidence on clandestine political violence, revolutions, civil wars. From the theoretical point of view, innovation emerged in the attempt to link structure and agency, socio-economic and cultural explanation. In particular, within the frame of contentious politics, political violence has been analyzed within the evolution of social movements and political conflicts. Session 1. October 7. Clandestine political violence: Global Comparisons Coordinator: Donatella della Porta

Della Porta, Donatella, Clandestine Political Violence, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, chap. 1. Goodwin, Jeff. 2001. No Other Way Out. States and Revolutionary Movements, 1945-1991; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, chaps 1 and 2.. Foran, John, 2005. Taking Power. The Origins of Third World Revolutions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, chap. 1.

Session 2. October 14. Networks and generations

Coordinator: Donatella della Porta

Guest: Donagh Davis Lorenzo Bosi and Donatella Della Porta “Micro-mobilization into armed groups: the ideological, instrumental and solidaristic paths” Qualitative Sociology 35: 361-383. Viterna, Jocelyn. 2006. “Pulled, Pushed, and Persuaded: Explaining Women’s Mobilization into Salvadoran Guerrilla Army”. The American Journal of Sociology 112(1): 1–45. Session 3. October 21. Interactive diffusion in conflict escalation

Coordinator: Donatella della Porta

Guest: Kivanc Atak/Leonidas Oikonomakis Della Porta, Donatella, Clandestine Political Violence, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, chaps. 2.

Della Porta, Donatella and Sidney Tarrow. 2012. “Interactive Diffusion: The Coevolution of Police and Protest Behavior With an Application to Transnational Contention.” Comparative Political Studies, xx, 1-34.

Session 4. October 28. Framing Violence

Coordinator: Donatella della Porta

Guest: Pietro Castelli/Caterina Froio

Viterna, Jocelyn (forthcoming) "Radical or Righteous?: Using Gender to Shape Public Perceptions of Political Violence" in L. Bosi, S. Malthaner and C. Demetriou, Dynamics of Political Violence. Ashgate.

Caiani, M., D. della Porta and C. Wagemann, 2012. Mobilizing on the Radical Right, Oxford, Oxford University Press, chaps. 1, 6, 7.

Session 5. November 4. Rituals and performances Coordinators: Xabier Itcaina

Guest: Hobson Bryan, Dominic S. 2003. “Parade disputes and the peace process”, Peace review, 13(1): 43-49. Juris. Jeffrey S. 2008. “Performing politics: image, embodiment and affective solidarity in anti-corporate globalization protest”, Ethnography, 9, 61. Tilly, Charles. 2003. The politics of collective violence, Cambridge University Press (ch. 4: violent rituals) Zulaika, Joseba. 1988. Basque Violence: Metaphor and Sacrament. Reno: University of Nevada Press (chapter 13) Session 6. November 11. The logics of clandestinity

Coordinators: Lorenzo Bosi and Donatella della Porta

Guest: Valeria Pizzini

Della Porta, Donatella, Clandestine Political Violence, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, chaps. 5, 6, 7. Lorenzo Bosi (Forthcoming) "The Red Brigades: from sabotages to lethal attacks" in Alimi, Bosi and Demetriou The Relational Dynamics of Radicalization. A Comparative Perspective. New York: Oxford University Press. Session 7. November 18. Space and violence

Coordinator: Lorenzo Bosi

Guest: Joldon Kutmanaliev/Markos Vogiatzoglou

Bosi, Lorenzo “Safe Territories and Political Violence: the Persistence and Disengagement of Violent Political Organizations” Nationalism and Ethnic Politics 19 (1): 80-101. Della Porta, Donatella and Gianni Piazza. 2008. Voices from the valley, Voices form the straits, Berghan, chaps. 3 and 4.

Session 8. November 25. Negotiating Peace, Resisting Violence Coordinators: Xabier Itcaina

Guest: Juan Masullo

Brewer, John, Gareth Higgins and Francis Teeney (2011), Religion, Civil Society and Peace in Northern Ireland, Oxford University Press (Introduction: civil society, religion and democratic transitions) Itçaina, Xabier 2013. “Between logics of deliberation and appropriateness: the discourse and practices of the Catholic Church over the Basque issue”, Critical Policy Studies (forthcoming) http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19460171.2012.752971

Session 9. December 2. Social Relations: Constituencies, Reference Groups, Violent Milieus.

Coordinator: Donatella della Porta

Guest: Frank O’Connor; Alex Veit

Malthaner, Stefan. 2011. Mobilizing the Faithful: The Relationship between Militant Islamist Groups and their Constituencies. Frankfurt/New York: Campus. (chap. 2, p. 38-55).

Della Porta, Donatella, Clandestine Political Violence, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, chaps. 3.

Session 10. December 9. Transformations of Violence: Disengagement and Memory

Coordinator: Donatella della Porta and Lorenzo Bosi

Guest: Lorenzo Zamponi

Bosi, L. and D. Della Porta. Forthcoming. “Processes Out of Political Violence: a Comparative Historical Sociology of Italian Left-wing underground organizations and the Provisional IRA.” In J. Gunning (ed.), How Does ‘Terrorism’ End? Routledge: London. Della Porta, Donatella, Clandestine Political Violence, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, chap. 8. Zwerman, Gilda, Patricia G. Steinhoff, and Donatella della Porta. 2000. “Disappearing Social Movements: Clandestinity in the Cycle of New Left Protest in the U.S., Japan, Germany, and Italy”, Mobilization 5 (1): 85-104.

Tarrow, Sidney. 2011. Power in Movement: Social Movements and Contentious Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (chapter 10, p. 195-214).