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Policing Protest Paul A. Passavant

Policing Protest By Paul A. Passavant

Policing Protest by Paul A. Passavant


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Paul A. Passavant explores how the policing of protest in the United States has become increasingly hostile since the late 1990s, moving away from strategies that protect protestors toward militaristic practices designed to suppress legal protests.

Policing Protest Summary

Policing Protest: The Post-Democratic State and the Figure of Black Insurrection by Paul A. Passavant

In Policing Protest Paul A. Passavant explores how the policing of protest in the United States has become increasingly hostile since the late 1990s, moving away from strategies that protect protesters toward militaristic practices designed to suppress protests. He identifies reactions to three interrelated crises that converged to institutionalize this new mode of policing: the political mobilization of marginalized social groups in the Civil Rights era that led to a perceived crisis of democracy, the urban fiscal crisis of the 1970s, and a crime crisis that was associated with protests and civil disobedience of the 1960s. As Passavant demonstrates, these reactions are all haunted by the figure of black insurrection, which continues to shape policing of protest and surveillance, notably in response to the Black Lives Matter movement. Ultimately, Passavant argues, this trend of violent policing strategies against protesters is evidence of the emergence of a post-democratic state in the United States.

Policing Protest Reviews

This book affected me like a good shot of whiskey. Complex, bracing, needed. -- Lester K. Spence, author of * Knocking the Hustle: Against the Neoliberal Turn in Black Politics *
Although of late a lot has been written on policing, nothing that I have read takes up this important topic of protest policing, let alone gives it such a far-reaching and well-supported reading. The policing of protest turns out to be a distinctive but truly revealing piece of contemporary policing, one that no one has covered as comprehensively as Paul A. Passavant does in this text. -- Jonathan Simon, author of * Mass Incarceration on Trial: A Remarkable Court Decision and the Future of Prisons in America *
A masterful book filled with keen insights about policing protests using grounded data and compelling stories. It's easily the best analysis I've read on this topic and sets a new standard for theoretical integration, clarity, and real-world relevance. -- Peter B. Kraska, author of * Militarizing the American Criminal Justice System: The Changing Roles of the Armed Forces and the Police *

About Paul A. Passavant

Paul A. Passavant is Associate Professor of Political Science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, the author of No Escape: Freedom of Speech and the Paradox of Rights, and coeditor of Empire's New Clothes: Reading Hardt and Negri.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. Policing Protest and the Post-Democratic State 1
1. Aesthetic Government: Neoliberal Authoritarianism and the Post-Democratic Right of Expression 25
2. New York's Mega-Event: Security Legacy and the Postlegitmation State 62
3. Policing the Uprising: Occupy Wall Street and Order Maintenance Policing 98
4. Violent Appearances and Neoliberalisms's Disintegrated Political Subjects 141
5. Political Antagonisn: #BlackLivesMatter and the Postlegitimation, Post-Democratic State 184
Conclusion. Policing Protest and Neoliberal Authoritarianism 239
Notes 253
Bibliography 315
Index 333

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NGR9781478011439
9781478011439
1478011432
Policing Protest: The Post-Democratic State and the Figure of Black Insurrection by Paul A. Passavant
New
Paperback
Duke University Press
20210813
368
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