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Policing Dissent : Social Control and the Anti-Globalization Movement /

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 emerging anti-corpora...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fernandez, Luis A., 1969- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2008.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Protest, control, and policing
  • Perspectives on the control of dissent
  • The anti-globalization movement
  • Managing and regulating protest : social control and the law
  • This is what democracy looks like? : the physical control of space
  • "Here come the anarchists" : the psychological control of space
  • Law enforcement and control.