UID:
kobvindex_HPB756663361
Format:
1 online resource (vii, 207 pages) :
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illustrations
ISBN:
9780814708736
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0814708730
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9780814738351
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0814738354
Content:
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.
Note:
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.
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English.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Starr, Amory, 1968- Shutting down the streets. New York, N.Y. : New York University Press, ©2011 ISBN 9780814740996
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814740996.001.0001
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