Sidney Tarrow, Director
Applications are invited for an eight-week seminar on new
and renewed approaches to the comparative study of revolution.
Until the 1990s, studies of revolution were dominated by the
comparative/structural approach, which derived its
generalizations from a relatively small number of "great"
revolutions. Focussing on societies with large agrarian
populations and centralized bureaucratic states, these studies
underplayed both the political process of revolutions and the
cultural themes and concrete actors surrounding them. Since then,
a host of new approaches emphasizing culture, gender, social
movements and the political process have appeared, and a number
of new revolutions and archives on older ones have led
researchers to seek new models and interpretations. This summer
seminar will focus on three main goals: first; expanding the
population of cases from the classical "great" revolutions;
second, applying a political process model drawn from social
movement research to revolutionary periods; and, third, examining
the cultural aspects of revolution, including the role of gender,
ethnicity and religion.
For further information, write or E - mail:
Sidney Tarrow
Department of Government
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853-4601
sgt2@cornell.edu
--