Tag: Dynamics of Contention

• underdog vs. winning team impulses

  My floating signifier rant yesterday was tangential to the question I had set out to approach. Likely there will be a few more tangents still along the way… The section I was reading from Dynamics of Contention about the Yellow Revolution in the Philippines got me thinking about shifting and emerging political alignments — thinking…

  Jonathan Matthew Smucker

  August 16, 2012

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  Barack Obama, Dynamics of Contention, Ernesto Laclau, floating signifiers, hegemony, insurgent, spectrum of allies, tipping point, underdog

• more geeking out about floating signifiers

  I’m reading Dynamics of Contention by Doug McAdam, Sidney Tarrow, and Charles Tilly. I’ll be posting some notes as I digest it over the next few days. It’s been interesting to see different language for some of the same concepts—or at least overlapping concepts—that I’ve been working on, influenced by many others of course. I…

  Jonathan Matthew Smucker

  August 15, 2012

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  Beigno Aquino, Charles Tilly, Doug McAdam, Dynamics of Contention, Ferdinand Marcos, floating signifiers, Sidney Tarrow