Shutting down the streets : political violence and social control in the global era / / Amory Starr, Luis Fernandez, and Christian Scholl.

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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Year of Publication:2011
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (216 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.