Riots and Militant Occupations : Smashing a System, Building a World - a Critical Introduction.

Cover -- Riots and Militant Occupations -- Riots and MilitantOccupationsSmashing a System, Buildinga World - A Critical Introduction -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Introduction -- Theoretical Reflections -- Chapter 1 -- A Theory of Rupture -- 'They Cannot Stop Us AnyMore!' Transforming the Street -- Riot as Political Practice: Knowing from within a Horizontal Plane of Experience -- Post-Representative Dissenting Subjects . . . -- . . . with Different Perspectives of Dissent . . . -- . . . Remove the Objective Researcher . . . -- . . . Performing a Theory of Rupture -- Theorising the Riot from a Participatory Perspective -- More Than a Moment of Rupture -- Note -- References -- Chapter 2 -- Life Is Magical -- The 'Glue' of Revolt: Autonomous Social Movements, Affect and the Bund -- Black Bloc as Bund: Experiences of Fusion -- Carving the Field: Symbolising Radical Refusal -- Another World Is Possible: The Creation of a Felt 'Outside' -- Life Is Magical: Empowerment, Disalienation, Release, Euphoria and Intensity -- Kairos: Transformations in Time and Space -- Cops in the Head: Fear and Trauma -- Another World Can Exist -- References -- Chapter 3 -- Riot, Rupture and Insurrectionary Theatre in a Dysfunctional Society -- Participation in Riots: The Perspective of Affect -- On 'Violence' and Rupture -- Theatre, Art and the Spectacle -- Stepping Back and the Cycle of Deterritorialisation and Reterritorialisation -- On Doom and the Present -- References -- Chapter 4 -- On the Spatiality of Square Occupations -- Tahrir and Syntagma: A Brief Overview -- On Space -- On Presence -- On Place -- On Territoriality -- On 'Strategies of Power' and 'Tactics of Resistance' -- Concluding Reflections -- Notes -- References -- Expressions -- Riots and Militant Occupations in Pictures and Poems -- Poem 1: 'Beats, beats, beats' by Said O. Feige.

Poem 2: 'No justice, no peace' by Said O. Feige -- Poem 3: 'Rivoluzione in Grecia 12 febbraio 2012' by unknown nihilist -- Poem 4: 'Urge' by makebetter -- Critical Case Studies -- Chapter 5 -- 'Riots' in the Jungle -- The Border in Calais -- About the 'Riots' -- Contextualising the 'Riots' -- The State Response and Police Violence -- Patterns of Resistance -- Action and Depoliticisation -- No Borders and Co-Conspiracy -- Summary -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 6 -- Riots and Remembrance on the Streets of Barcelona -- Assumptions -- On Legality and Punishment -- Barcelona: The Rose of Fire in Historical Review -- Understanding Oneself in Revolt -- The Exhaustion of Revolt -- Imaginaries and Histories -- Recovering History -- Social Amnesia and Pacifism -- From Pacification to Riot -- The Techniques of Winning the Streets -- The Architecture of Ephemerality -- Intergenerationality and the Community of Rebellion -- Note -- References -- Chapter 7 -- Cortège de Tête -- It Is No Longer the Protest That Erupts - It's the Eruption That Becomes the Protest -- Thursday, March 31: The Temporality of Rupture -- The Air of February 22 -- Take Back the Night -- We Are Everywhere -- Parabola/Arabesque -- Acabradabra, Here We Are! -- The Bouffay Party -- From a Time Balancing Power to That of Revolt -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 8 -- The Pressure to Condemn -- Background - Sweden's 'Million Dwelling Programme' Suburbs -- Chronology of the Riot -- Analysis of Narratives -- Whose Voices? Contentious Riot Narratives -- Notes -- References -- Interview Partners (in Alphabetical Order) -- Chapter 9 -- Contesting Neoliberalism -- Social Movements in Historical Perspective in Nigeria -- The Political, Economic and Sociological Underpinnings of the 2012 Occupy Nigeria Protest -- State Response, Violence and the Aftermath of the Protests.

The Legacy of Occupy Nigeria -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 10 -- Media as a Double-Edged Sword -- Historical Context of the Conflict: A Brief Overview -- The Regime's Media and Its Impact on the Revolutionary Movement -- The Syrian Revolution against Bashar al-Assad: A Facebook Page -- Top-Down Social Media Campaigning and Revolutionary Decision Making: An Attempt to Strike against the Regime -- Vital Local News from Local Pages: Civil Actions and Militias -- Learning during the Revolution -- Media as a Double-Edged Sword -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 11 -- 'Kick It Like China' -- The Future of Counterinsurgency? -- Analysis of Riots in China - Why Do Riots Happen? -- Counterinsurgency (COIN)4,5 -- Aspects of COIN in China -- The Law Enforcement: 城市管理 政执法人员 Urban Management Enforcement Officers (Chéngguǎn) -- The Paramilitary Police: 中国人民武 察 People's Armed Police Force -- The Military: 中国人民 放军 Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) -- The Soft Measures -- 维稳 wéiwěn -- Future Techniques of Surveillance and Control in the PRC -- Notes -- References -- Conclusion -- Index -- About the Authors.

Provides students with a robust theoretical summation of lesser-known modern day and globally-spanning riots and brings together both academic and activist contributors.

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