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Disrupting Order: Tension, Riots, and Social Change

By (author) Nona Martin Storr, By (author) Virgil Henry Storr

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Are riots more than just breakdowns of order? Are rioters just violently and chaotically disrupting the status quo or are they individuals acting together in aÂ surprisingly orderly manner? In Disruptive Order, Nona Martin Storr and Virgil Henry Storr argue that riots are rule-governed, self-generating, emergent phenomena. Viewing riots as what they call â€œtensive emergent ordersâ€ offers a grammar for discussing riots that foregrounds the motivations and actions of individual rioters, the tacit rules that rioters follow, and the socio-political causes and consequences of riots . Applying this grammar to the 1942 riot that occurred in the Bahamas, Storr and Storr demonstrate how the 1942 riot was not just a momentary outburst but a watershed event in the countryâ€™s history, ushering in far-reaching socio-political changes. As we move into an era of frequent extreme protests, Disruptive Order urges us to rethink why the threatened and marginalized sometimes speak through riots and gives us a framework to assess the impact of their speaking in this way.