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This volume is a thorough re-examination of civil unrest and discontent in the United States, particularly the intersection of democracy and violence. The work argues that unrest and violence are embedded rituals of social and political "disconsent" and are constitutive features of citizen-based democracy.
As such, they are part of how democratic life works: unrest is the eruptive, visible grammar of citizens in a democratic society. Democracy and citizen unrest and violence in the United States are set within a deeper history. The author traces the roots of American democracy - and the rituals of disconsent - to their sources in ancient Mediterranean political society, demonstrating that early democratic theory and practice understood unrest and revolt as morally grounded. Featuring case studies of recent episodes of political and social "disconsent" in the United States, the volume contextualizes the Black Lives Matter protests, unrest around police and institutional violence, and the Capitol insurrection on January 6.
Through this, the book provides an important social theoretical lens through which to understand American discontent around racial injustice, political suppression, and citizen disillusionment.
Contents
Prologue
1. Violence as a Sumptuary Privilege
2. Democratization and Civil Unrest in America (and Elsewhere)
3. The Moral Foundation of Social and Political Disconsent
4. Crowds, Strangers, and City Life
5. The Other "Ferguson Effect"
6. Charlottesville
7. Black Lives Matter Protests (and Violence)
8. January 6
9.The Future of Civil Unrest and Violence in America (and Elsewhere)
Bibliography
Index
