Anne Nassauer

Situational Breakdowns (eBook, ePUB)

Understanding Protest Violence and other Surprising Outcomes

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In our everyday lives, we rely on routines that make tasks and interactions easier and provide a sense of order--routines of greeting each other, getting to work, organizing the things we do on the job, at the gym, or during family dinners. Yet, we have all experienced situations where routines fail and people behave contrary to expectations. In Situational Breakdowns, Anne Nassauer demonstrates that when routines break down, surprising outcomes often emerge. Focusing on detailed accounts of peaceful and violent protests from the 1960s until 2010, violent uprisings such as Ferguson 2014, and armed store robberies caught on CCTV, Nassauer argues that by systematically looking at the way situations unfold, clear patterns can be identified for how and why routine interactions break down. Employing over 1,000 visual recordings, documentary sources, interviews with participants, and participant observation with police, she shows which factors can draw us into violent situations and discusses how and why we make uncommon individual and collective decisions. Drawing on insights from sociology, psychology, primatology, international relations, and neuroscience, Nassauer compares situational dynamics with human motivations to demonstrate that our interactions, interpretations, and emotions greatly influence the outcome of situations. A novel interpretation of surprising social outcomes, Situational Breakdowns reveals that, despite the course of events overriding motivations, people can avoid being caught up in violence, if they know what to look for.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190922085
• Artikelnr.: 56935764

Autorenporträt

Anne Nassauer is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at Freie Universität Berlin. Her research focuses on violence and deviant action, collective behavior, and the use of video data for scientific inquiry. Her work lies at the intersection of sociology, social psychology, and criminology, with the ultimate goal of better understanding human action and interaction.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction: Situational Collapses and Eruptions
1. Protest Groups and Physical Violence
2. The (Lack of) Power of the Violent Few
3. The Police's Fault?
4. Losing Control
5. Expecting the Worst
6. Uncertainty
7. In the Tunnel of Violence
8. How to Keep Protests Peaceful
9. Situational Breakdowns beyond Protest Violence
Conclusion
References
Appendices
A. Studying Situational Dynamics in the 21st Century
B. Methodological Notes on Studying Protest Violence
C. Methodological Notes on Studying Uprisings
D. Methodological Notes on Studying Robberies