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Record Nr.

UNINA9910477183203321

Autore

Scholl Christian <1980->

Titolo

Two sides of a barricade : (dis)order and summit protest in Europe / / Christian Scholl

Pubbl/distr/stampa

State University of New York Press, 2013

Albany : , : State University of New York Press, , 2012

©2012

ISBN

9781461919384

146191938X

9781438445144

1438445148

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Praxis : theory in action

Disciplina

303.48/4094

Soggetti

Dissenters - Europe - History - 21st century

Opposition (Political science) - Europe - History - 21st century

Protest movements - Europe - History - 21st century

Social movements - Europe - History - 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Barricades are back -- Global dissent : tactical trajectories -- Understanding interaction tactically -- Bodies that matter : the epistemology of street interactions -- "Leave them no space!" the microphysics of spatial interactions -- Psy(c)ops, spin-doctors and the communication of dissent -- "A revolt is a revolt is a revolt" violence, law, and the exception -- Back to the barricades?.

Sommario/riassunto

Two Sides of a Barricade argues that to construct global democracy, conflict and dissent must be taken seriously. Christian Scholl explores the political significance of the confrontations within four sites of interaction: bodies, space, communication, and law. Each site of struggle provides a different entry point to understand the influence of protester and police tactics on each other. At the same time, the four sites of struggle allow a comprehensive analysis of how the contestation of global hegemonic forces during summit protests trigger



a preemptive shift in social control through increased deployment of biopolitical forms of power. Christian Scholl is Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. He is the coauthor (with Amory Starr and Luis Fernandez) of Shutting Down the Streets: Political Violence and Social Control in the Global Era.