Response paper should be about 3 double-spaced pages in length.

Response paper should be about 3 double-spaced pages in length. These papers should take the form of critical summary and analysis of the readings’ positive and negative attributes. you should analyze the readings. the purpose of the paper is to demonstrate your knowledge and critical analysis of the assigned reading.

Please no long summery or conclusion

You must use all the reading no summery please you have to analyze the reading and follow the rubric.

Please be very careful the prof is hard grader.

Contentious Politics & Social Movements

Theories & Approaches
o Doug McAdam, Sidney Tarrow, and Charles Tilly, “Comparative Perspectives on

Contentious Politics,” in Mark Irving Lichbach & Alan S. Zuckerman, eds. Comparative

Politics: Rationality, Culture, and Structure (2 nd Edition) (New York: Cambridge University

Press, 2009), pgs. 260-290.

o James Scott, Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance (New Haven:

Yale University Press, 1985), pgs. 28-48.

o David Meyer and Sidney Tarrow, eds. The Social Movement Society: Contentious Politics

for a New Century (Oxford, UK: Rowman & Littlefield, 1998), pgs. 1-28.

Studying Protest & Social Movements
o Dina Bishara, “The Generative Power of Protest: Time and Space in Contentious Politics,”

Comparative Political Studies. 2021, Vol. 54, No. 10, pgs. 1722-1756.

o Thea Riofrancos, “Extractivismo Unearthed: A Genealogy of a Radical Discourse,” Cultural

Studies. 2017, Vol 31, Nos. 2-3, pgs. 277-306.

o Allison D. Evans & Rudra Sil, “The Dynamics of Labor Militancy in the Extractive Sector:

Kazakhstan’s Oilfields and South Africa’s Platinum Mines in Comparative Perspective,”

Comparative Political Studies. 2020, Vol. 53, No. 6, pgs. 992-1024.

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