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Theorizing the standoff : = contingency in action /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Theorizing the standoff :/ Robin Wagner-Pacifici.
Reminder of title:	contingency in action /
Author:	Wagner-Pacifici, Robin Erica,
Description:	1 online resource (xiv, 276 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Social conflict. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511488887
ISBN:	9780511488887 (ebook)

Theorizing the standoff : = contingency in action /
Wagner-Pacifici, Robin Erica,

Theorizing the standoff :contingency in action /Robin Wagner-Pacifici. - 1 online resource (xiv, 276 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). - Cambridge cultural social studies. - Cambridge cultural social studies..

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Acknowledgements -- Theorizing contingency -- The times of standoffs -- The spaces of standoffs -- The action of standoffs -- Endings and improvisations.

This book combines original theoretical analysis with real life case studies to examine the nature of the standoff. Starting with the standoffs of Wounded Knee, MOVE, Ruby Ridge, Waco, Freeman of Montana, Tupac Amaru, Republic of Texas, the author explores the archetypal patterns of human action and cognition that move us into and out of these highly charged situations and seeks to theorize the contingency of all such moments. As an emergency situation where interaction is both frozen and continuing, the standoff evokes original ideas about time, space and appropriate or anticipated action and individuals and organisations often find their standard operating procedures and categories deflected and transformed. By tracking and analysing such impositions and deflections, this book aims to develop a theory of the fundamental existential indeterminacy of social life and the possible role that improvisation can play in navigating this indeterminacy and preventing a violent and destructive conclusion. Co-winner of the 2001 Best Book Award given by the Sociology of Culture Section of the American Sociological Association.

ISBN: 9780511488887 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

569994
Social conflict.

LC Class. No.: HM1121 / .W34 2000

Dewey Class. No.: 303.6

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