Two sides of a barricade : : (dis)order and summit protest in Europe / / Christian Scholl.

• Author: Scholl, Christian, 1980-
• Place / Publishing House: Albany : : State University of New York Press,, 2012.; ©2012.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: SUNY series, praxis, theory in action.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

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.

Table of Contents

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?.