Political Violence in Context Time, Space and Milieu [Hardcover]

Context is crucial to understanding the causes of political violence and the form it takes. This book examines how time, space and supportive milieux decisively shape the pattern and pace of such violence.While much of the work in this field focuses on individual psychology or radical ideology, Bosi, ? Dochartaigh, Pisoiu and others take a fresh, innovative look at the importance of context in generating mobilisation and shaping patterns of violence. The cases dealt with range widely across space and time, from Asia, Africa and Europe to the Americas, and from the Irish rebellion of 1916 through the Marxist insurgency of Sendero Luminoso to the Invisible Commando of C?te dIvoire. They encompass a wide range of types of violence, from separatist guerrillas through Marxist insurgents and Islamist militants to nationalist insurrectionists and the distinctive forms of urban violence that have emerged at the boundary between crime and politics. Chapters offer new theoretical perspectives on the decisive importance of the spatial and temporal contexts, and supportive milieux, in which parties to conflict are embedded, and from which they draw strength.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables viiContributors ixAcknowledgements xiiiChapter One  Contextualising Political Violence 1Lorenzo Bosi, Niall ? Dochartaigh and Daniela PisoiuPART ONE: TIMEChapter Two  Political Violence in Time 15Lorenzo BosiChapter Three  Whats so Transformative about Transformative Events?Violence and Temporality in Irelands 1916 Rising 23Donagh DavisChapter Four  Multiple Temporalities in Violent Conflicts:Northern Ireland, the Basque Country and Macedonia 43Joseph Ruane and Jennifer ToddChapter Five  Temporal Factors in Prosecutions for Political Violence:The New Left in Japan and the United States 67Patricia Steinhoff and Gilda ZwermanChapter Six  Remembering Violence: Four Cases of Contentious Memoryin the Italian and Spanish Student Movements of the 1960s and 1970s 89Lorenzo Zampolã8