Shutting Down the Streets: Political Violence and Social Control in the Global Era
"The work effectively combines scholarly analysis with the immediate sense of direct action taken from firsthand accounts."-M.F. Farrell,CHOICE"The authors of this excellent--and beautifully written--monograph...write not from the outside...but as activist scholars."-Deborah Eade,Interface"This is a work of the movement rather than a dispassionate attempt at objective analysis and evaluation...Shutting Down the Streetsis an important resource in understanding the repression being experienced by the Occupy movement."-Working USA,"This book provides a timely and much-needed critical reflection on how major protest events are controlled and the consequences of such practices... dense yet accessible and important."-Cultural Sociology,"solidly empirical, richly descriptive and clearly written analysis" -American Journal of Sociology,