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Shutting down the streets : political violence and social control in the global era / Amory Starr, Luis Fernandez, and Christian Scholl.
LIBRA HM661 .S83 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Starr, Amory, 1968-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social control.
- Political violence.
- Globalization--Political aspects.
- Globalization.
- Anti-globalization movement.
- Physical Description:
- 207 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, [2011]
- Summary:
- Shutting Down the Streets revamps the literature on social control and reveals the significance of protest policing in the era of alterglobalization. Based on direct observation of more than 20 global summits, the book demonstrates that social control is not only global, but also preemptive, and that it relegates dissent to the realm of criminality. The authors document in detail how social control forecloses the spaces through which social movements nurture the development of dissent and effect disruptive challenges, showing that much "policing of protest" is political violence against democracy. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- What is going on?
- The geography of global governance: spatial dynamics of controlling
- Dissent
- Political economy of the social control of dissent
- Policing of alterglobalization dissent
- A taxonomy of political violence
- Anti-repression: resisting the social control of dissent
- Democracy out of order.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780814740996
- 0814740995
- 9780814741009
- 0814741002
- 9780814708736
- 0814708730
- OCLC:
- 723723496
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