Black Bloc, White Riot: Anti-Globalization and the Geneaology of Dissent - Brossura

Thompson, A. K.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1849350140 ISBN 13: 9781849350143

Casa editrice: A K Pr Distribution, 2010

Riassunto

Are you taking over, or are you taking orders?
Are you going backwards, or are you going forwards?

White riot?I wanna riot.
White riot?a riot of my own.

?The Clash, "White Riot"

Ten years after the battle in Seattle sparked an historic struggle against the forces of multinational conglomeration and American imperialism, the anti-globalization generation is ready to reflect on a decade of organizing that changed the face of mass action around the globe.

Scholar and activist AK Thompson revisits the struggles against globalization in Canada and the United States at the turn of the century, and he explores the connection between political violence and the white middle class. Equal parts sociological study and activist handbook, Black Bloc, White Riot engages with the key debates that arose in the anti-globalization movement over the course of the past decade: direct or mass action? Summit-hopping or local organizing? Pacifism or diversity of tactics?

Drawing on movement literature, contemporary and critical theory, and practical investigations, Thompson outlines the effect of the anti-globalization movement on the white, middle-class kids who were swept up in it, and he considers how and why violence must once again become a central category of activist politics.

AK Thompson is a writer and activist living and working in Toronto, Canada. Currently completing his PhD in sociology at York University, Thompson teaches social theory and serves on the editorial committee of Upping the Anti: A Journal of Theory and Action. His publications include Sociology for Changing the World: Social Movements/Social Research (Fernwood Publishing, 2006).

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A.K. Thompson is a writer and activist living and working in Toronto. He is the author of Changing the World: Social Movements/Social Research (Fernwood, 2006), and The Resonance of Romanticism: Activist Art and the Bourgeois Horizon (forthoming), and serves on the editorial committee of the journal Upping the Anti. He is currently completing a PhD in Sociology at York University.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: A K Pr Distribution
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1849350140
• ISBN 13: 9781849350143
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 198
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile