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Investigates how activists confront global powers with their street-level dissent.
Two Sides of a Barricade argues that to construct global democracy, conflict and dissent must be taken seriously. Christian Scholl explores the political significance of the confrontations within four sites of interaction: bodies, space, communication, and law. Each site of struggle provides a different entry point to understand the influence of protester and police tactics on each other. At the same time, the four sites of struggle allow a comprehensive analysis of how the contestation of global hegemonic forces during summit protests trigger a preemptive shift in social control through increased deployment of biopolitical forms of power.
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Acknowledgments
1. Barricades are back
2. Global dissent: tactical trajectories
3. Understanding interaction tactically
4. Bodies that matter: the epistemology
5. "Leave them no space!" The microphysics of spatial interactions
6. Psy(c)ops, spin-doctors and the communication of dissent
7. 'A revolt is a revolt is a revolt.' Violence, law, and the exception
8. Back to the barricades
Endnotes
Appendix
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