A small repertoire of performances can weave into widespread rebellion.

Evidence

On the third day of the Six Day War, it shows us the weaving of a small number of contentious performances into a widespread rebellion. Different groups of youths stoned vehicles, buildings, or people; manufactured petrol bombs to launch at other vehicles or buildings; looted shops; hijacked buses; or staged brief confrontations with troops. At the same time, military forces patrolled in armored vehicles called “Casspirs,” shooting and launching tear gas to disperse activist crowds. (The Casspir, the anagrammed acronym for the South African Police that commissioned it and the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research that developed it, deflected bullets, grenades, and even mines; it became a favorite armored crowd-control and antiguerrilla vehicle for South African forces during the 1980s.) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 610

Categorization

• QUESTION: Tilly is testing whether a narrow repertoire of contention can cascade into a mass event - directly useful for checking how institutional absorption channels or fails to channel politicization.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 610
• XREF: connects to: A mass uprising can deliver less than a true revolution — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 310; The spectacle’s crowd could invert terror into revolt against the punitive power — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 115; A single repertoire performance can act where full social movements have no standing — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1248 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Regime and repertoire organization shapes which revolutionary shifts occur. #corroborates (0.85) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 995
• A single repertoire performance can act where full social movements have no standing #expands (0.82) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1248
• A revolutionary situation’s outcome depends on prevailing regimes and repertoires. #expands (0.81) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1088
• Legal-but-unacceptable conversion pressure can trigger rebellion by delegitimizing a regime #exemplifies (0.78)
• Indiscriminate repression by weak militarized states breeds revolutionary movements. #expands (0.76)
• Regimes sort contention into prescribed, tolerated, and forbidden performances #qualifies (0.75) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 272
• The spectacle’s crowd could invert terror into revolt against the punitive power #exemplifies (0.74) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 115
• A mass uprising can deliver less than a true revolution #complicates (0.72) — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 310
• Small fringe provocations can dominate national public attention #expands (0.71) — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 21