liberal revolutions, peasant protest, Fascist violence, WWII Resistance movements, 19 th c. historians and historical anthropologists have well documented the survival and practice of rituals of folk justice in later periods, mostly in the context of 19 th c. Thompson and Natalie Zemon Davis’ seminal work on popular culture(s) and protest, 19 th and 20 th c. In particular, political charivari – that is rough music, mock trials, mock funerals, ride on donkeys, shaving, effigy burning or hanging, soiling, etc - continued to be practiced and adapted to new political needs well up to the 20 th c. Traditional forms of collective action did not disappear overnight. A new modern repertoire, which included boycotts, barricades, petitions, demonstrations, strikes, came to replace it. However, as a result of industrialisation, the rise of the nation-state and the spread of association politics, pre-industrial communitarian forms of protest were to gradually fade away. Charivari rites in particular, that is rituals of public humiliation through which small communities denounced and sanctioned certain breaches of commonly accepted customary rules, held significant prominence. In early modern Europe, protest repertoires mainly revolved around community-based forms of direct action, which included attacks on property, field invasion, physical violence to persons. In the footsteps of Charles Tilly’s influential study of contentious politics in France and Great Britain, scholars of social movements tend to distinguish between pre-industrial and post-1789 forms of collective action. Donatella della Porta (Professor of Sociology, European University Institute, Florence) will participate as discussant.Xabier Itçaina (CNRS Research fellow-Sciences Po Bordeaux - Marie Curie Fellow European University Institute, Florence).Ilaria Favretto (Professor of Contemporary European History, Kingston University, London).
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COSMOS Consortium on Social Movements, Workshop , European University Institute, Florence, Call for papers : Popular culture and protest repertoires in 20th c.