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oapen-20.500.12657-462542023-02-01T09:02:38Z Two Sides of a Barricade Scholl, Christian Social Science Criminology Political Science Globalization Technology & Engineering Agriculture bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JK Social services & welfare, criminology::JKV Crime & criminology bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFF Social issues & processes::JFFS Globalization bic Book Industry Communication::T Technology, engineering, agriculture::TV Agriculture & farming 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.Christian Scholl is Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. He is the coauthor (with Amory Starr and Luis Fernandez) of Shutting Down the Streets: Political Violence and Social Control in the Global Era. 2021-01-23T04:30:28Z 2021-01-23T04:30:28Z 2013 book 9781438445144 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/46254 eng SUNY Press Open Access; SUNY series, Praxis: Theory in Action application/epub+zip n/a external_content.epub State University of New York Press SUNY Press 10.1353/book.23972 10.1353/book.23972 1e003940-c9f9-4f5d-b1a0-1cfa16a3eae7 9781438445144 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) SUNY Press 286 open access
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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.Christian Scholl is Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. He is the coauthor (with Amory Starr and Luis Fernandez) of Shutting Down the Streets: Political Violence and Social Control in the Global Era.
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