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Shutting Down the Streets
Amory Starr
Luis A. Fernandez
Christian Scholl
其他書名
Political Violence and Social Control in the Global Era
出版
NYU Press
, 2011-09-12
主題
Law / Criminal Law / General
Political Science / General
Political Science / Globalization
Political Science / Political Freedom
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy
Political Science / Political Process / Political Advocacy
Psychology / Movements / Psychoanalysis
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Social Science / Criminology
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
Social Science / Sociology / General
Social Science / Sociology / Urban
Social Science / Violence in Society
ISBN
0814741002
9780814741009
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=hYqgIYstSwEC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
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.