Luis A Fernandez: Shutting Down the Streets, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Shutting Down the Streets
- Political Violence and Social Control in the Global Era
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- Verlag:
- New York University Press, 09/2011
- Einband:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780814741009
- Artikelnummer:
- 9638632
- Umfang:
- 224 Seiten
- Gewicht:
- 293 g
- Maße:
- 228 x 151 mm
- Stärke:
- 17 mm
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 12.9.2011
- Hinweis
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Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
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.
Biografie (Christian Scholl)
Christian Scholl geb. 1971 in Magdeburg, studierte Kunstgeschichte, Geschichte und Literaturwissenschaft in Braunschweig und Berlin und promovierte 1999 in Göttingen. Er war Stipendiat des Landes Niedersachsen am Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte in München und forschte und lehrte an der University of Chicago. Seit 2004 leitet er die Forschungsgruppe 'Romantikrezeption, Autonomieästhetik und Kunstgeschichte' im Rahmen des Emmy-Noether-Programms der DFG an der Universität Göttingen.