Farewell Lecture Marcel van der Linden
Big changes are often the unintendend consequences of attempts to keep things as they are. This paradoxical mechanism, first described by the paleontologist Alfred Romer, is of relevance in many research areas, including the study of social movements.
In his farewell lecture Walking Fish. How Conservative Behaviour Generates and Processes Radical Change Marcel van der Linden shows to which extent this theory can be applied to social and economic history.