Policing
Dissent
Price: $21.95
Subtitle: Social Control and the Anti-Globalization Movement
Author: Luis
A. Fernandez
Subject: Sociology
/ Criminology
Paper ISBN
978-0-8135-4215-7
Cloth ISBN 978-0-8135-4214-0
Pages: 224 pages,
9 b&w photographs
Series:
Critical Issues in Crime and Society
Publication Date: February 2008
Praise for Policing Dissent
"A
fascinating look at a vitally important movement for social change--and
the obstacles it faces. Important reading for self-reflective activists."—Starhawk
"This book is frightening, urgent—crucial reading."—Christian Parenti, author
of Lockdown America and The Soft Cage
“Policing Dissent is one of
the best books I’ve come across in any field that examines the
intersections of globalization, dissent, and late-modern social
control.”—Peter Kraska, Senior Research Fellow, and author of Militarizing the American Criminal Justice
System
“Fernandez’s survey of new protest policing helps us all feel the
chill—not just of mass mobilizations but of dissent itself.”—Amory
Starr, author of Naming the Enemy
and Global Revolt
“An important contribution to our understanding of the state’s response
to unrest that puts the scholarship on protest policing into contact
with the repressive reality.”—Kristian Williams, author of Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in
America
“Luis Fernandez’s Policing Dissent
is a fascinating and courageous book—a book where the crackling energy
of contemporary street protest animates a careful analysis of late
modern social control.”—Jeff Ferrell, author of Tearing Down the Streets: Adventures in
Urban Anarchy
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Table of Contents (.pdf)
Description:
In November 1999, fifty-thousand anti-globalization activists
converged on Seattle to shut down the World Trade Organization’s
Ministerial Meeting. Using innovative and network-based strategies, the
protesters left police flummoxed, desperately searching for ways to
control the crowds in Seattle and the emerging anti-corporate
globalization movement. Faced with these
network-based tactics, law enforcement agencies transformed their
policing and social control mechanisms to manage this new threat
.
In Policing Dissent,
sociologist Luis A. Fernandez provides a firsthand account of the
changing nature of control
efforts employed by local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies
when
confronted with mass activism. Based on ethnographic research, and
using an
incisive, cutting-edge theoretical framework, Fernandez maps the use of
legal,
physical, and psychological approaches.
Policing
Dissent also offers readers the richness of experiential detail
and engaging stories often lacking in studies of police practices and
social movements. This book does not merely seek to explain the causal
relationship between repression and mobilization. Rather, it shows how
social control strategies act on the mind and body of protesters.
About the Author:
Luiz A. Fernandez is an assistant professor at
Northern Arizona University
Visit the author's website at http://www.policingdissent.info
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