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IKKI -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Orthography -- Introduction -- Part I: The Context of Contention -- Part II: The Texture and Content of Contention -- Part III: The Correlates and Causes of Contention -- Part IV: Consequences and Conclusions -- Appendix 1: The Aoki Kōji Data -- Appendix 2: Magnitude and Type of Contention -- Bibliography -- Index -- 1. The Political Context -- 2. The Economic Context -- 3. The Social and Demographic Context -- 4. The Ideological and Philosophical Context -- 5. Frequency and Magnitude -- 6. Repertoires

The theoretical model of the global city, an international metropolis in which form and functioning are predominantly determined by the forces of international capital and in which socioeconomic structure is characterized by class and ethnic polarization, is criticized as economically reductionist and ethnocentric. Paris and Tokyo are offered as empirical examples of international metropolises that are not dominated by capital and/or are not characterized by extreme polarization.

The concepts of "repertoires" and "cycles" of collective action, as popularized in recent years in the works of Charles Tilly and Sidney Tarrow, respectively, are the focal point of this essay. I explore these concepts in the context of a set of data based on 7,664 incidents of social conflict and political protest occurring in Japan during the period 1590–1877, in order to investigate their temporally and spatially comparative robustness.