Shutting Down the Streets : : Political Violence and Social Control in the Global Era / / Christian Scholl, Amory Starr, Luis A. Fernandez.

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • 1 What Is Going On?
  • 2 The Geography of Global Governance
  • 3 Toward a Political Economy of the Social Control of Dissent
  • 4 Policing Alterglobalization Dissent
  • 5 A Taxonomy of Political Violence
  • 6 Antirepression
  • 7 Democracy Out of Order
  • Appendix A
  • Appendix B
  • Appendix C
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Authors