"We are living through a period of dramatic political change - Brexit, the election of Trump, the rise of extreme right movements in Europe and elsewhere, the resurgence of nationalism and xenophobia and a concerted assault on the liberal values and ideals associated with cosmop…
"We are living through a period of dramatic political change - Brexit, the election of Trump, the rise of extreme right movements in Europe and elsewhere, the resurgence of nationalism and xenophobia and a concerted assault on the liberal values and ideals associated with cosmop…
This innovative book uses examples from around the world to examine the spread of draconian and nationalistic forms of government - 'authoritarian protectionism' - which provides new insight into the changing nature of the authoritarian threat to democracy and how it might be ov…
This innovative book uses examples from around the world to examine the spread of draconian and nationalistic forms of government - 'authoritarian protectionism' - which provides new insight into the changing nature of the authoritarian threat to democracy and how it might be ov…
This innovative book uses examples from around the world to examine the spread of draconian and nationalistic forms of government - 'authoritarian protectionism' - which provides new insight into the changing nature of the authoritarian threat to democracy and how it might be ov…
"What seemed unthinkable after the end of the Cold War and the triumph of liberalism has become reality today: the democratic world society of the 21st century is threatened by illiberal and autocratic political models. The state is no longer an instrument of a dominating stratu…
"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 policin…
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 an…
"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 policin…
"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."--
"As the crisis of neoliberal global capitalism unfolds, and as we move to the brink of another economic disaster and the threat of war, global capitalism is once again resorting to authoritarianism and fascism to maintain its power. This book addresses this vital question in com…
Neoliberal globalization is in deep crisis. This crisis is manifested on a global scale and embodies a number of fundamental contradictions, a central one of which is the global rise of authoritarianism and fascism. This emergent form of authoritarianism is a right-wing reaction…