Summary
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. The author of this book discusses the changing nature of control efforts employed by local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies when confronted with mass activism. Based on ethnographic research, Fernandez maps the use of legal, physical, and psychological approaches.--Cf. Publisher's website.
Contents
1. Protest, control, and policing -- 2. Perspectives on the control of dissent -- 3. The anti-globalization movement -- 4. Managing and regulating protest : social control and the law -- 5. This is what democracy looks like? : the physical control of space -- 6. "Here come the anarchists" : the psychological control of space -- 7. Law enforcement and control.