Social Movements and Food Shortages: Political Dynamics of Collective Violence

在过去的20年里，粮食骚乱--一种通常与工业化初期有关的抗议形式--在拉丁美洲已经司空见惯。尽管这一特殊形式的集体暴力十分普遍和重要，但尚未对其进行系统的社会科学分析。该项目将首次分析拉丁美洲最近一波粮食骚乱（1989-2005年），剖析具体粮食骚乱事件的内在动力，并研究抢劫的结构和政治原因。 该项目结合了微观（食品骚乱事件）和宏观（城市和国家）两级的详细数据收集和分析组成部分，在三个国家进行了密集的人种学实地考察：阿根廷，委内瑞拉和玻利维亚，研究的更大目标是了解制约，引导和扩散集体暴力的过程，以及更广泛地了解政治进程和集体暴力之间的关系。 该研究考察了相互交织的因果关系，解释了暴力抗议如何同时是对人们面临的不断变化的经济和社会现实的反应，是先前大规模行动的内在后果，也是贫困社区所谓的“日常政治”的延伸。在分析这些相互关联的过程中，本研究将在从不同角度处理集体暴力的几个研究领域之间建立知识桥梁。最后，本研究将首次全面介绍拉丁美洲当前粮食骚乱浪潮的历史和动态，这本身就是一个重要的政治文化事件。

SES-073921Javier AuyeroTimothy Patrick MoranMichael SchwartzStony Brook University, SUNYIn the last twenty years, food riots -- a form of protest usually associated with the early days of industrialization -- have become commonplace across Latin America. Despite their prevalence and importance, this particular form of collective violence has not yet been the subject of systematic social scientific analysis. This project will provide the first analysis of the latest wave of food riots in Latin America (1989-2005), dissect the internal dynamics of specific food riot episodes, and examine the structural and political causes of the lootings. The project combines detailed data-collection and analysis components at both the micro (food riot event) and macro (municipal and national) levels, with intensive ethnographic fieldwork in three countries: Argentina, Venezuela, and Bolivia.The study's larger goals are to understand both the processes that condition, channel and diffuse collective violence and, more broadly, the relationships that connect political process and collective violence. The research examines the intertwined causal sinews that explain how violent protest is simultaneously a reaction to the evolving economic and social realities that people face, an embedded consequence of prior mass action, and an extension of what might be called the "everyday politics" of poor communities. In analyzing these interconnected processes, this research will create intellectual bridges among several areas of study that approached collective violence from different perspectives. Finally, this study will offer the first full account of the history and dynamics of the current wave of food riots in Latin America, an important political-cultural event in its own right.