Boundaries of Dissent
Subtitle: Protest and State Power in the Media Age
By: Bruce D'Arcus
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
Copyright date: 2006
Subjects: Protest movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Protest movements in mass media -- History -- 20th century.; Protest movements -- United States -- Case studies.; Mass media -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Public spaces -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; State, The -- History -- 20th century.; United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989.; United States -- Politics and government -- 1989-; United States -- Social conditions -- 1960-1980.; United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-
Genres: Case studies.
First sentence: In a whole series of events in the past few decades, political protests have placed national identity and state authority in radical question.
Description: Boundaries of Dissent looks at the way that political protest, as it is shaped through the space-time collapsing power of media, questions national identity and state authority. Through this lens of protest politics, Bruce D'Arcus examines how public and private space is symbolically mediated—the way that power and dissent are articulated in the contemporary media. Along the way, he addresses broader questions about the relationships between contemporary power and identity, citizenship and marginality, and society and geographic space. Further, he sets forth ways to distinguish legitimate protest from illegitimate dissent. In order to accomplish this task, D'Arcus looks at four case studies: the violent protests at the 1968 Democratic convention; the 1973 occupation of the Wounded Knee reservation; the 1999 rescue and subsequent custody battle over Elián González; and the anti-globalization protests in Seattle in 1999 and Québec City in 2001. D'Arcus argues for ways in which to usefully study these cases, demonstrating the way that citizenship is socially constructed and how it is tied to concrete space.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Power and Protest in a Media Age; title: Spaces of Dissent: Public Space and the Politics of Boundaries; title: 1968: Drawing the Boundaries of Dissent; title: Wounded Knee: Native Sovereignty and Media Spectacle; title: Elián González and the Geopolitics of Home; title: Free Trade and Fences: Globalization and the Politics of Mobilty in Quebec City, 2001; title: Quarantining Dissent