Demonstrations synthesize local specificity with widely legible contentious forms

Evidence

Of all the events that recur in social movements, demonstrations best illustrate the synthesis of campaigns, performances, and WUNC displays. Among other things, they combine local symbols, practices, issues, and personnel with forms of interaction that are visible and meaningful well outside of any particular locality. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1180

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1180
• XREF: connects to: Global media templates shape how local protests are interpreted and copied — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 272; Color-coded demonstrations spread transnationally as a new repertoire element — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1264; Demonstration location shifts with state control over public space — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1187 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Color-coded demonstrations spread transnationally as a new repertoire element #exemplifies (0.82) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1264
• Demonstration location shifts with state control over public space #qualifies (0.78) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1187
• Conspiracy symbols succeed by combining concrete specificity with vagueness #expands (0.74)
• Effective self-presentation requires matching appearance to location-specific social codes #qualifies (0.71)