Riots and militant occupations : smashing a system, building a world--a critical introduction /: smashing a system, building a world--a critical introduction. ([2018])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Alissa Starodub and Andrew Robinson.
• Editors: Starodub, Alissa, 1988-; Robinson, Andrew, 1977-
• Contents: 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 RuptureNote; 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 AffectOn '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. FeigePoem 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 RevoltThe 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
• Publisher Details: London : New York : Rowman & Littlefield International
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 303.6/23; Riots -- History; Protest movements -- History; Insurgency -- History; Insurgency; Protest movements; Riots; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General; History; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781786603722; 1786603721
• Related ISBNs: 9781786603708; 1786603713; 9781786603715
• Notes: Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 08, 2018).
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