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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782247103321

Autore

Fernandez Luis A. <1969->

Titolo

Policing Dissent : Social Control and the Anti-Globalization Movement / / Luis Fernandez

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Brunswick, NJ : , : Rutgers University Press, , [2008]

©2008

ISBN

1-281-77650-5

9786611776503

0-8135-4474-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (206 p.)

Collana

Critical Issues in Crime and Society

Disciplina

363.23

363.32/30973

Soggetti

Law enforcement - United States

Social control - United States

Protest movements - United States

Anti-globalization movement - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Protest, Control, and Policing -- 2. Perspectives on the Control of Dissent -- 3. The Anti-Globalization Movement -- 4. Managing and Regulating Protest: Social Control and the Law -- 5. This Is What Democracy Looks Like?: The Physical Control of Space -- 6. "Here Come the Anarchists": The Psychological Control of Space -- 7. Law Enforcement and Control -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

In November 1999, fifty-thousand anti-globalization activists converged on Seattle to shut down the World Trade Organization's Ministerial Meeting. Using innovative and network-based strategies, the protesters left police flummoxed, desperately searching for ways to control the emerging anti-corporate globalization movement.  Faced with these network-based tactics, law enforcement agencies transformed their policing and social control mechanisms to manage this new threat. Policing Dissent provides a firsthand account of the changing nature of control efforts employed by law enforcement



agencies when confronted with mass activism. The book also offers readers the richness of experiential detail and engaging stories often lacking in studies of police practices and social movements. This book does not merely seek to explain the causal relationship between repression and mobilization. Rather, it shows how social control strategies act on the mind and body of protesters.