Shutting down the Streets Political Violence and Social Control in the Global Era

Name: Shutting down the Streets Political Violence and Social Control in the Global Era
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ISBN: 9780814741009

ISBN-10: 0814741002

ISBN-13: 9780814741009

Edition: 2011

Authors: Luis A. Fernandez, Amory Starr, Christian Scholl

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Recently, a wall was built in eastern Germany. Made of steel and cement blocks, topped with razor barbed wire, and reinforced with video monitors and movement sensors, this wall was not put up to protect a prison or a military base, but rather to guard a three-day meeting of the finance ministers of the Group of Eight (G8). The wall manifested a level of security that is increasingly commonplace at meetings regarding the global economy. The authors ofShutting Down the Streetshave directly observed and participated in more than 20 mass actions against global in North America and Europe, beginning with the watershed 1999 WTO meetings in Seattle and including the 2007 G8 protests in…

Book details

List price: $29.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 9/12/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English

Luis A. Fernandez is Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northern Arizona University and author of Policing Dissent: Social Control and the Anti-Globalization Movement .

Amory Starr is the author of several books, including the first comprehensive text on alterglobalization, Naming the Enemy: Anti-Corporate Movements Confront Globalization .

Christian Scholl is Lecturer of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam and author of the forthcoming book, Two Sides of a Barricade. (Dis)order and Summit Protest in Europe .




What Is Going On?



The Geography of Global Governance: Spatial Dynamics of Controlling Dissent



Toward a Political Economy of the Social Control of Dissent



Policing Alterglobalization Dissent



A Taxonomy of Political Violence



Antirepression: Resisting the Social Control of Dissent



Dmocracy Out of Order



Summits Directly Observed by Authors



Of Stones and Flowers: John Holloway and Vittorio Sergi on Protest Tactics



Suggestions for Future Research


Notes


Bibliography


Index


About the Authors