South Africa’s 1990 mobilization integrated existing small-scale activists rather than recruiting anew

Evidence

The enormous mobilization of Africans that surged immediately after the beginning of 1990 relied less on drawing new people into contentious politics than on integrating those who had been involved in struggle at a small scale with much larger political actors. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 599

Categorization

• XREF: Strengthens ch5’s point that most contention reuses familiar performances and that brokerage, not fresh recruitment, drives scale-up — this is the mechanisms-level claim underwriting repertoire continuity. — connects to: Activist identities must be reinvented as practice, not inherited as belief — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics: how Americans…, 1269

Broader Connections

• Activist identities must be reinvented as practice, not inherited as belief #complicates (0.70) — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics, 1269