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Shutting Down the Streets - Political Violence and Social Control in the Global Era (Paperback, New)
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Shutting Down the Streets - Political Violence and Social Control in the Global Era (Paperback, New)
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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, beginning with the watershed 1999 WTO meetings
in Seattle and including the 2007 G8 protests in Heiligendamm.
Shutting Down the Streets is the first book to conceptualize the
social control of dissent in the era of alterglobalization. Based
on direct observation of more than 20 global summits, the book
demonstrates that social control is not only global, but also
preemptive, and that it relegates dissent to the realm of
criminality. The charge is insurrection, but the accused have no
weapons. The authors document in detail how social control
forecloses the spaces through which social movements nurture the
development of dissent and effect disruptive challenges.
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