Temporality in the Study of Political Violence

Abstract

The time dimension is a topic that has gone largely unexamined in the study of political violence. Drawing on the social movement literature (McAdam and Sewell 2001) different types of temporalities will be discussed in this panel in order to address the complex balance between environmental constraints and actors’ choices, path dependency and innovation: long-term change processes, cycles of political violence, transformative events and cultural epochs of violence. This panel aims at indentifying some main issues in these debates, with particular attention to the role of strategic choices taken by political actors. Contributions with cross-time, cross-national or cross-level (local, national, transnational) comparative dimension will be particularly welcomed. Each abstract will be evaluated for: - relevance and pertinence to the workshop’s themes. - quality and clarity of the research question; - theoretically original contribution and discussion of available knowledge. - methodological precision in the comparative approach.

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