Chares Demetriou
Biographic Data
| ID | 389162 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chares Demetriou |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chares |
| FAMILY NAME | Demetriou |
| SIGNATURE | DEMETRIOU C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lund University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0594-9437 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 89 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Realism, Mechanism, Effect, and Comparative Contentious Politics
Charles Tilly was instrumental in launching the comparative study of contentious politics through key contributions delineating and defining the subject matter. But his input is epistemological as well as theoretical and substantive. What characterizes his epistemology is a realist mechanistic explanation rendering mechanisms tools of both explanation and comparison. Employing the realist perspective, this article examines Tilly's focus on mechan…
The History of Historical-Comparative Methods in Sociology
This chapter offers an overview of the historical trajectory of comparative-historical sociology while focusing on the issue of development of specific methodological approaches. The legacy of sociology’s founding fathers is discussed first, followed by an overview of the post–World War II U.S.-based academic research program that led to the institutional organization and academic acceptance of the field. The chapter then offers an assessment of …
Divide and rule Cyprus? Decolonisation as process
Instances of decolonisation can be considered processes featuring complicated interactions that are both path-dependent and open-ended. This perspective contrasts with reductionist epistemologies, particularly economistic ones. Viewing the decolonisation of Cyprus in processual terms, this article argues that the process at hand was crucially shaped by the colonial strategy of divide-and-rule and that the process’s complicated flow of interaction…
Relational Radicalization
Charles Tilly and Relational Sociology
Making sense of ‘Price Tag’ violence: Changing Contexts, Shifting Strategies, and Expanding Targets
Writings on the fringe Jewish settler grassroots network known as the Hilltop Youth have proliferated in recent years, following the increase in violent activism associated with the network. But knowledge on this violent activism, called Price Tag, has remained conflicting and problematic. Central questions persist: What is the meaning of Price Tag violence? What explains the increase in the rate and salience of Price Tag violence? What are the s…
Dynamics of Political Violence: A Process-Oriented Perspective on Radicalization and the Escalation of Political Conflict
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Fighting Eoka: The British counter-insurgency campaign on Cyprus, 1955–1959
Fighting EOKA: the British counter-insurgency campaign on Cyprus, 1955–1959." Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 24(4), pp. 549–550
Trust: A history
Designing peace: Cyprus and institutional innovations in divided societies
Designing peace: Cyprus and institutional innovations in divided societies." Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 24(4), pp. 561–562
Cyprus
In Cyprus as elsewhere, nationalism was a modern phenomenon. But it was also one underpinned by social boundaries rooted in premodern times. Sometimes slow‐moving and other times abrupt, social boundary formation and transformation through the centuries endowed modern Cyprus with two groups of people who were thinking of themselves as Greek and Turkish, respectively. This, together with the existence of two mother countries and a colonial power, …
Social Movements and Political Violence
The Dynamics of Radicalization: A Relational and Comparative Perspective
Why is it that some social movements engaged in contentious politics experience radicalization whereas others do not? The Dynamics of Radicalization offers an innovative reply by investigating how and when social movement organizations switch from a nonviolent mode of contention to a violent one. Moving beyond existing explanations that posit aggressive motivations, grievances or violence-prone ideologies, this book demonstrates how these factors…
Britain and the Greek Colonels: Accommodating the Junta in the Cold War
Britain and the Greek Colonels: Accommodating the Junta in the Cold War." Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 23(4), pp. 548–549
The History of Historical-Comparative Methods in Sociology
This chapter offers an overview of the historical trajectory of comparative-historical sociology while focusing on the issue of development of specific methodological approaches. The legacy of sociology’s founding fathers is discussed first, followed by an overview of the post-World War II US-based academic research program that led to the institutional organization and academic acceptance of the specialty. The chapter then offers an assessment o…
Understanding European Movements: New Social Movements, Global Justice Struggles, Anti-Austerity Protest
For over a century European social-scientific scholarship has had a close yet uneasy relationship with its American counterpart. It has been a parental relationship in which the offspring grew to b
Dynamics of Political Violence: A Process-Oriented Perspective on Radicalization and the Escalation of Political Conflict
Political Radicalization and Political Violence in Palestine (1920–1948), Ireland (1850–1921), and Cyprus (1914–1959)
The connection between political radicalization and political violence is often thought to follow “organic stages.” That is, radicalization is considered to be a progression leading to violence, after which time radicalization and violence evolve together dialectically. This ideal-typical process does correspond to historical evidence, and this article presents such evidence from the political contention in Palestine during the Mandate period. Ho…
Relational Dynamics and Processes of Radicalization: A Comparative Framework
We propose an explanatory framework for the comparative study of radicalization that focuses on its "how" and "when" questions. We build on the relational tradition in the study of social movements and contentious politics by expanding on a mechanism-process research strategy. Attentive to similarities as well as to dissimilarities, our comparative framework traces processes of radicalization by delineating four key arenas of interaction—between …
Processual Comparative Sociology: Building on the Approach of Charles Tilly
Charles Tilly's work on process analysis offers a methodological approach to comparative-historical sociology that can be considered paradigmatic. Yet the approach has been widely criticized for lack of rigor. This paper maintains that the problem lies in insufficient clarification of the approach's central concept: mechanism. Once scrutinized, the concept reveals a tension between its connotation and its denotation. This can be addressed in two …
The Realist Approach to Explanatory Mechanisms in Social Science: More than a Heuristic
The mechanism-realist paradigm in the philosophy of science, championed by Mario Bunge and Roy Bhaskar, sets certain expectations for the substantive social-scientific application of the paradigm. To evaluate the application of the paradigm in accomplished substantive research, as well as the potential for future research, I examine the work of Charles Tilly, the exemplary substantive work in the mechanism-realist tradition. Based on this examina…
Big Structures, Social Boundaries, and Identity in Cyprus, 1400-1700
This article examines the transformation of public identity among the Greek-speaking inhabitants of Cyprus during the late medieval period, when the island was ruled first under Western-style feudalism and then under Ottoman feudalism. This change of style of rule contributed to the transformation of the Greek speakers' public identity, from fragmented to collective. The explanation of this transformation in identity is based on an analysis of sh…
Political Violence and Legitimation: The Episode of Colonial Cyprus
Relational Dynamics and Processes of Radicalization: A Comparative Framework
We propose an explanatory framework for the comparative study of radicalization that focuses on its "how" and "when" questions. We build on the relational tradition in the study of social movements and contentious politics by expanding on a mechanism-process research strategy. Attentive to similarities as well as to dissimilarities, our comparative framework traces processes of radicalization by delineating four key arenas of interaction—between …
Dynamics of Political Violence: A Process-Oriented Perspective on Radicalization and the Escalation of Political Conflict
Political Violence and Legitimation: The Episode of Colonial Cyprus
Processual Comparative Sociology: Building on the Approach of Charles Tilly
Charles Tilly's work on process analysis offers a methodological approach to comparative-historical sociology that can be considered paradigmatic. Yet the approach has been widely criticized for lack of rigor. This paper maintains that the problem lies in insufficient clarification of the approach's central concept: mechanism. Once scrutinized, the concept reveals a tension between its connotation and its denotation. This can be addressed in two …
The Realist Approach to Explanatory Mechanisms in Social Science: More than a Heuristic
The mechanism-realist paradigm in the philosophy of science, championed by Mario Bunge and Roy Bhaskar, sets certain expectations for the substantive social-scientific application of the paradigm. To evaluate the application of the paradigm in accomplished substantive research, as well as the potential for future research, I examine the work of Charles Tilly, the exemplary substantive work in the mechanism-realist tradition. Based on this examina…
Making sense of ‘Price Tag’ violence: Changing Contexts, Shifting Strategies, and Expanding Targets
Writings on the fringe Jewish settler grassroots network known as the Hilltop Youth have proliferated in recent years, following the increase in violent activism associated with the network. But knowledge on this violent activism, called Price Tag, has remained conflicting and problematic. Central questions persist: What is the meaning of Price Tag violence? What explains the increase in the rate and salience of Price Tag violence? What are the s…
Divide and rule Cyprus? Decolonisation as process
Instances of decolonisation can be considered processes featuring complicated interactions that are both path-dependent and open-ended. This perspective contrasts with reductionist epistemologies, particularly economistic ones. Viewing the decolonisation of Cyprus in processual terms, this article argues that the process at hand was crucially shaped by the colonial strategy of divide-and-rule and that the process’s complicated flow of interaction…
Understanding European Movements: New Social Movements, Global Justice Struggles, Anti-Austerity Protest
For over a century European social-scientific scholarship has had a close yet uneasy relationship with its American counterpart. It has been a parental relationship in which the offspring grew to b
Big Structures, Social Boundaries, and Identity in Cyprus, 1400-1700
This article examines the transformation of public identity among the Greek-speaking inhabitants of Cyprus during the late medieval period, when the island was ruled first under Western-style feudalism and then under Ottoman feudalism. This change of style of rule contributed to the transformation of the Greek speakers' public identity, from fragmented to collective. The explanation of this transformation in identity is based on an analysis of sh…
Political Violence and Legitimation: The Episode of Colonial Cyprus
Big Structures, Social Boundaries, and Identity in Cyprus, 1400-1700
This article examines the transformation of public identity among the Greek-speaking inhabitants of Cyprus during the late medieval period, when the island was ruled first under Western-style feudalism and then under Ottoman feudalism. This change of style of rule contributed to the transformation of the Greek speakers' public identity, from fragmented to collective. The explanation of this transformation in identity is based on an analysis of sh…
The Realist Approach to Explanatory Mechanisms in Social Science: More than a Heuristic
The mechanism-realist paradigm in the philosophy of science, championed by Mario Bunge and Roy Bhaskar, sets certain expectations for the substantive social-scientific application of the paradigm. To evaluate the application of the paradigm in accomplished substantive research, as well as the potential for future research, I examine the work of Charles Tilly, the exemplary substantive work in the mechanism-realist tradition. Based on this examina…
Political Radicalization and Political Violence in Palestine (1920–1948), Ireland (1850–1921), and Cyprus (1914–1959)
The connection between political radicalization and political violence is often thought to follow “organic stages.” That is, radicalization is considered to be a progression leading to violence, after which time radicalization and violence evolve together dialectically. This ideal-typical process does correspond to historical evidence, and this article presents such evidence from the political contention in Palestine during the Mandate period. Ho…
Relational Dynamics and Processes of Radicalization: A Comparative Framework
We propose an explanatory framework for the comparative study of radicalization that focuses on its "how" and "when" questions. We build on the relational tradition in the study of social movements and contentious politics by expanding on a mechanism-process research strategy. Attentive to similarities as well as to dissimilarities, our comparative framework traces processes of radicalization by delineating four key arenas of interaction—between …
Processual Comparative Sociology: Building on the Approach of Charles Tilly
Charles Tilly's work on process analysis offers a methodological approach to comparative-historical sociology that can be considered paradigmatic. Yet the approach has been widely criticized for lack of rigor. This paper maintains that the problem lies in insufficient clarification of the approach's central concept: mechanism. Once scrutinized, the concept reveals a tension between its connotation and its denotation. This can be addressed in two …
The History of Historical-Comparative Methods in Sociology
This chapter offers an overview of the historical trajectory of comparative-historical sociology while focusing on the issue of development of specific methodological approaches. The legacy of sociology’s founding fathers is discussed first, followed by an overview of the post-World War II US-based academic research program that led to the institutional organization and academic acceptance of the specialty. The chapter then offers an assessment o…
Understanding European Movements: New Social Movements, Global Justice Struggles, Anti-Austerity Protest
For over a century European social-scientific scholarship has had a close yet uneasy relationship with its American counterpart. It has been a parental relationship in which the offspring grew to b
Dynamics of Political Violence: A Process-Oriented Perspective on Radicalization and the Escalation of Political Conflict
Cyprus
In Cyprus as elsewhere, nationalism was a modern phenomenon. But it was also one underpinned by social boundaries rooted in premodern times. Sometimes slow‐moving and other times abrupt, social boundary formation and transformation through the centuries endowed modern Cyprus with two groups of people who were thinking of themselves as Greek and Turkish, respectively. This, together with the existence of two mother countries and a colonial power, …
Social Movements and Political Violence
The Dynamics of Radicalization: A Relational and Comparative Perspective
Why is it that some social movements engaged in contentious politics experience radicalization whereas others do not? The Dynamics of Radicalization offers an innovative reply by investigating how and when social movement organizations switch from a nonviolent mode of contention to a violent one. Moving beyond existing explanations that posit aggressive motivations, grievances or violence-prone ideologies, this book demonstrates how these factors…
Britain and the Greek Colonels: Accommodating the Junta in the Cold War
Britain and the Greek Colonels: Accommodating the Junta in the Cold War." Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 23(4), pp. 548–549
Dynamics of Political Violence: A Process-Oriented Perspective on Radicalization and the Escalation of Political Conflict
TEST 02 - Elsevier's Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Search and access research from the science, technology, medicine, social sciences and arts and humanities fields
Fighting Eoka: The British counter-insurgency campaign on Cyprus, 1955–1959
Fighting EOKA: the British counter-insurgency campaign on Cyprus, 1955–1959." Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 24(4), pp. 549–550
Trust: A history
Designing peace: Cyprus and institutional innovations in divided societies
Designing peace: Cyprus and institutional innovations in divided societies." Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 24(4), pp. 561–562
Relational Radicalization
Charles Tilly and Relational Sociology
Making sense of ‘Price Tag’ violence: Changing Contexts, Shifting Strategies, and Expanding Targets
Writings on the fringe Jewish settler grassroots network known as the Hilltop Youth have proliferated in recent years, following the increase in violent activism associated with the network. But knowledge on this violent activism, called Price Tag, has remained conflicting and problematic. Central questions persist: What is the meaning of Price Tag violence? What explains the increase in the rate and salience of Price Tag violence? What are the s…
Divide and rule Cyprus? Decolonisation as process
Instances of decolonisation can be considered processes featuring complicated interactions that are both path-dependent and open-ended. This perspective contrasts with reductionist epistemologies, particularly economistic ones. Viewing the decolonisation of Cyprus in processual terms, this article argues that the process at hand was crucially shaped by the colonial strategy of divide-and-rule and that the process’s complicated flow of interaction…
The History of Historical-Comparative Methods in Sociology
This chapter offers an overview of the historical trajectory of comparative-historical sociology while focusing on the issue of development of specific methodological approaches. The legacy of sociology’s founding fathers is discussed first, followed by an overview of the post–World War II U.S.-based academic research program that led to the institutional organization and academic acceptance of the field. The chapter then offers an assessment of …
Realism, Mechanism, Effect, and Comparative Contentious Politics
Charles Tilly was instrumental in launching the comparative study of contentious politics through key contributions delineating and defining the subject matter. But his input is epistemological as well as theoretical and substantive. What characterizes his epistemology is a realist mechanistic explanation rendering mechanisms tools of both explanation and comparison. Employing the realist perspective, this article examines Tilly's focus on mechan…
Sociology (20 works) · Political science (18 works) · Law (15 works) · Politics (15 works) · Epistemology (12 works) · Political economy (11 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Cyprus History, Politics, Society (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works)