TY - BOOK ID - 80830702 TI - Theorizing the standoff : contingency in action PY - 2000 SN - 9780511488887 9780521652445 9780521654791 0511011075 9780511011078 0521652448 0511152205 9780511152207 0511048246 9780511048241 0511488882 0521654793 1107117453 1280420669 0511173202 0511310986 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Social conflict. KW - Social conflict KW - Conflict management. KW - Conflict control KW - Conflict resolution KW - Dispute settlement KW - Management of conflict KW - Managing conflict KW - Management KW - Negotiation KW - Problem solving KW - Crisis management KW - Class conflict KW - Class struggle KW - Conflict, Social KW - Social tensions KW - Interpersonal conflict KW - Social psychology KW - Sociology KW - Social Sciences UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80830702 AB - This book combines original theoretical analysis with real life case studies to examine the nature of the standoff. Starting with the standoffs of Wounded Knee, MOVE, Ruby Ridge, Waco, Freeman of Montana, Tupac Amaru, Republic of Texas, the author explores the archetypal patterns of human action and cognition that move us into and out of these highly charged situations and seeks to theorize the contingency of all such moments. As an emergency situation where interaction is both frozen and continuing, the standoff evokes original ideas about time, space and appropriate or anticipated action and individuals and organisations often find their standard operating procedures and categories deflected and transformed. By tracking and analysing such impositions and deflections, this book aims to develop a theory of the fundamental existential indeterminacy of social life and the possible role that improvisation can play in navigating this indeterminacy and preventing a violent and destructive conclusion. Co-winner of the 2001 Best Book Award given by the Sociology of Culture Section of the American Sociological Association. ER -