Discourse and Destruction The City of Philadelphia Versus MOVE

Name: Discourse and Destruction The City of Philadelphia Versus MOVE
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ISBN: 9780226869773

ISBN-10: 0226869776

ISBN-13: 9780226869773

Edition: 1993

Authors: Robin Wagner-Pacifici

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In the early 1980s the radical group MOVE settled into a rowhouse in a predominantly African-American neighborhood of west Philadelphia, beginning years of confrontations with neighbors and police over its anti-establishment ways and militant stance against all social and political institutions. On May 13, 1985, following a period of increased MOVE activity and threats by neighbors to take matters into their own hands, the city moved from bureaucratic involvement to violent intervention. Police bullhorned arrest warrants, hosed down the rowhouse, sprayed tear gas through its walls, and dropped explosives from a helicopter. By the end of the day, eleven MOVE members were dead, an entire…

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List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 2/17/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 0.60" wide x 0.90" long x 0.05" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Elizabeth A. Kaye specializes in communications as part of her coaching and consulting practice. She has edited Requirements for Certification since the 2000-01 edition.



Preface


Acknowledgments



A Framework for Articulating Horror



What Is MOVE?



The Language of Domesticity



Bureaucratic Discourse: The Policy, the Plan, the Operation



The Law and Its Apparatus: Speaking Warrants and Weapons



Decarcerating Discourse


Notes


Bibliography


Index