(Read items 1-5 for Nov 1 )
- GL pp 221-4, ideas of repertoires of action and strategy
- Lecture notes on ideas of repertoires of action & constraints on tactics + an empirical inventory of tactics.
- * Meyer, Chapter 5 “The Strategy and Tactics of Social Protest”
- *Meyer, Chapter 6, “Civil Disobedience”
- * GJ20. Saul D. Alinsky. Protest Tactics (From Rules For Radicals). Alinsky was an extremely influential community organizer who founded influential organizationad and wrote many books directed to activists. This short selection emphasizes some of his direct-action tactics. Alinsky’s “rules” are reprinted on the web in many places, both on activist/anarchist sites AND on business/administration sites which emphasize how to prepare for and respond to Alinskyist tactics.
- An example of a pro-activist site listing the “rules”
- GJ21. Aldon Morris. Tactical Innovation In The Civil Rights Movement (From The Origins Of The Civil Rights Movement). Short history of the evolution of the sit-in in the CRM
- McAdam, Doug (1983). “Tactical Innovation and the Pace of Insurgency.” American Sociological Review 48(6): 735-754. This was a crucial article setting off a lot of this analysis. Argues that upsurges in mobilization are due to tactical innovations, which are brought down by regimes learning how to respond.