Shutting down the streets: political violence and social control in the global era
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Main Author: Starr, Amory (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, N.Y. New York University Press ©2011
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Online Access:DE-1046
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-202) and index
What is going on? -- The geography of global governance: spatial dynamics of controlling -- Dissent -- Political economy of the social control of dissent -- Policing of alterglobalization dissent -- A taxonomy of political violence -- Anti-repression: resisting the social control of dissent -- Democracy out of order
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 of Shutting Down the Streets have directly observed and participated in more than 20 mass actions against global in North America and Europe, begin
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (vii, 207 pages)
ISBN:0814708730
0814738354
0814740995
0814741002
9780814708736
9780814738351
9780814740996
9780814741009

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