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Political Violence and Legitimation: The Episode of Colonial Cyprus

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Author	Demetriou, Chares
Copyright Year	2007
Abstract	Guerrilla warfare often becomes popular despite the fact that many aspects of it are morally objectionable. Guerrilla groups too, instead of being considered terrorists, often become legitimate political actors. How does this happen? How does the process of legitimation of political violence work? I argue that this process is social and cognitive at the same time, and that a framework for its explanation must be able to account for this dualism. I build such an analytical framework on McAdam, Tarrow, and Tilly’s approach to social movement studies and on the general sociology of Pierre Boudieu. I use it to analyze the legitimation process of the guerilla anti-colonial campaign in Cyprus. In the legitimation process of Cyprus, two social mechanisms proposed by McAdam et al. played a critical role at an early stage—the mechanisms of certification and of boundary-drawing. Later, a social mechanism that I term “valorization” was central as well. To appreciate the effectiveness of these mechanisms, however, I argue that the dispositional facet of the legitimation process must be accounted for as well. I do this through field analysis, focusing in particular on positions of social and symbolic power. The analysis of the legitimation process in Cyprus offers lessons for the study of other similar processes. By showing how the three mechanisms worked effectively, and also showing the limits of their effectiveness, this analysis offers readily comparable causal analogies
Starting Page	171
Ending Page	193
Page Count	23
File Format	PDF
ISSN	01620436
Journal	Qualitative Sociology
Volume Number	30
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	15737837
Language	English
Publisher	Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers
Publisher Date	2007-05-22
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Political violence Insurgency Terrorism Legitimation Cyprus British Empire Personality & Social Psychology Interdisciplinary Studies Cross Cultural Psychology Social Sciences Sociology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Sociology and Political Science

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