4. Tradition of dismissing popular protest as "mob violence" was effectively challenged by the great British Marxists: E.P. Thompson & Co.
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5. The scholarly literature I'm thinking of comes from E.P. Thompson, Hobsbawm, George Rudes, Natalie Zemon Davis & many others.
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6. In writing on 18th century food riots, Thompson showed that far from being mindless, popular protests highly ritualized & followed script
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7. With food riots, you have very consistent pattern: broke out when authorities failed to uphold social contract based on moral economy
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8. Social contract underwriting food riots: you give us food for set price. In times of scarcity we should we should share.
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9. Based on excellent work of
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10. Underlying protests against police violence is unwritten social contract: police monopoly on violence loses legitimacy when abused
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11. Like the food riot, anti-police riot is about holding authority accountable when social contract is broken.
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12. To talk about mob violence and looting is to willfully ignore the politics that are always at the heart of popular protests.
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