Repertoire of contention

A sit-in is one of many tools in the modern movement's repertoires of contention.
Repertoires can be transitory; consider the disappearance of rough music, popular in the 18th century Great Britain.
Activists blocking railway lines leading to a coal mine to limit climate change (Ende Gelände 2016).

Repertoire of contention refers, in social movement theory, to the set of various protest-related tools and actions available to a movement or related organization in a given time frame.[1][2] The historian Charles Tilly, who brought the concept into common usage, also referred to the "repertoire of collective action."[3]

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  3. ^ Tilly, Charles (Winter 1983). "Speaking Your Mind Without Elections, Surveys, or Social Movements". The Public Opinion Quarterly. 47 (4): 4. doi:10.1086/268805. hdl:2027.42/51066.