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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Fernandez, Luis,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2008]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Critical Issues in Crime and Society
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 p.) :; 9

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- 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