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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

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

©2012

ISBN

1-4619-1938-X

1-4384-4514-8

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.<br/><br/><b>Christian Scholl</b> 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.