Two Sides of a Barricade

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.

"…Two Sides triumphs in its injunction to gather on this side of the barricade and reconnect with the political in a moment marked by its decline." — Social Movement Studies"Two Sides of a Barricade has the wake-up call effect of a cold shower after a night of peaceful slumber. This is the kind of book that should be read by any academic who claims to use her or his scholarly authority for 'emancipatory' purposes." — Interface"This is the most extensive firsthand analysis of the global anticapitalist movement to date. It takes cutting-edge European social theory and brings it to bare on the concrete conditions of summit protests in Europe. Anyone interested in these large protest events and the movements that engender them will be compelled to read this book." — Alex S. Vitale, author of City of Disorder: How the Quality of Life Campaign Transformed New York Politics

• FiguresAbbreviationsAcknowledgments1. Barricades are back2. Global dissent: tactical trajectories3. Understanding interaction tactically4. Bodies that matter: the epistemology5. "Leave them no space!" The microphysics of spatial interactions6. Psy(c)ops, spin-doctors and the communication of dissent7. 'A revolt is a revolt is a revolt.' Violence, law, and the exception8. Back to the barricadesEndnotesAppendixBibliography