Following the high-profile deaths of eighteen-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri,
and twenty-five-year-old Freddie Gray in Baltimore, Maryland, both cities erupted in protest …

This review explores those varied bodies of work that have sought to understand crowd
behavior and violent crowd conduct in particular. Although the study of such collective …

Ethnic and religious conflicts frequently evolve into highly explosive situations marked by the
sudden eruption of conflictive mass behaviour in the form of leaderless protests or riots. In …

El 18 de octubre de 2019, comenzó en Chile un período de protestas denominado “estallido
social” que dio lugar a marchas multitudinarias ya la ocurrencia de conductas perseguibles …

Urban riots are typically carried out by individuals who live in residential areas that are
relatively marginalized socially, economically and politically. Previous research has …

Abstract In January 2015, French society was shocked by a sequence of fatal attacks at the
offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and a kosher supermarket in Paris. In the wake …

Political scientists have discovered that most political categories (political authority,
democratic legitimacy, identity building) are closely linked with the concept of narrative. We …

A wave of urban uprisings swept the planet from 2018 to 2021, throwing protesters into
violent collisions with police, confrontations fought out both in the streets and on digital …

This book investigates how Uyghur-related violent conflict and Uyghur ethnic minority
identity, religion, and the Xinjiang region, more broadly, became constituted as a …

The Chilean social uprising of 2019 took the country's political and economic elite by
surprise. After 30 years of unprecedented growth and stability, the Chilean model of …