pearl35 's review for:

The Politics of Collective Violence by Tilly, Charles Tilly

3.0

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Sociologist Charles Tilly attempts to categorize violence in societies of high/low capacity and democratic/undemocratic features across a spectrum of violent rituals(lynchings, public shaming, soccer hooligans), coordinated destruction (pogroms, genocide, purges), opportunism (looting, piracy), brawls (riots, bar fights, road rage), scattered attacks (sabotage, Luddites) and broken negotiations (protection rackets, extortion, threats), with vivid examples from historical accounts and contemporary conflicts. Tilly then suggests the points at which violence erupted because systems of control of boundaries broke down allowing people who previously had lived peacefully together to turn on one another.