Policing protest : the post-democratic state and the figure of Black insurrection / Paul A. Passavant.

"Policing Protest explores how protest policing has become more hostile to protesters and how this hostility expresses a post-democratic state formation persistently haunted by the figure of black insurrection. Beginning in the late 1990s, a more violent style of protest policing took shape in the U...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Global and insurgent legalities.
Main Author: Passavant, Paul A. (Paul Andrew) (Author)
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2021.
Series:Global and insurgent legalities.
Subjects:
Police > United States.
Militarization of police > United States.
Police brutality > United States.
Protest movements > United States > History > 21st century.
Black lives matter movement.
Occupy movement > New York (State) > New York.
Neoliberalism > History > 21st century.
Authoritarianism > History > 21st century.
Authoritarianism.
Militarization of police.
Neoliberalism.
Occupy movement.
Police.
Police brutality.
Protest movements.
New York (State) > New York.
United States.
2000-2099
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xii, 354 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: Policing protest and the post-democratic state
  • Aesthetic government : neoliberal authoritarianism and the post-democratic right of expression
  • New York's mega-event security legacy and the postlegitimation state
  • Policing the uprising : Occupy Wall Street and order maintenance policing
  • Violent appearances and neoliberalism's disintegrated political subjects
  • Political antagonism : #BlackLivesMatter and the postlegitimation, postdemocratic state
  • Conclusion: Policing protest and neoliberal authoritarianism.