Shutting Down the Streets: Political Violence and Social Control in the Global Era

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203 Index affinity group, 106, 125–26, 143 alterglobalization, 2, 15-18, 20, 29, 40, 65, 67, 76, 84, 155 anarchism, 95, 125, 158, 162 anticipatory conformity, 97 anti-terrorist legislation, 76, 78, 87–88, 109, 150; Joint Terrorism Task Forces, 135 arrest: as a method of social control, 16, 38, 43, 65, 68, 71, 78–83, 86–87, 111, 120; antirepression work regarding, 126, 130–33, 135, 138–41, 144; conditions in jail, 71, 131, 136, 139–41 assassination of activists, 121 assembly, 12, 97, 121 association, 12, 72 ATTAC, 72, 97, 158, 163 Autonomen, 65, 163 backlash, 65 ban orders, 41, 129 biopower, 4, 7, 17, 91 Black Block, 42, 82, 120, 143–44, 155–68, 188n23 blockading: by police, 37; by protesters, 30, 124 body, 14, 17, 19, 38, 48, 120–21, 143–45, 189n20 border controls, 37, 41–42 channeling, 35–36, 39–41, 47, 95, 147 civil disobedience, 16-17, 66, 87, 98, 111 civil society, 10, 27, 110 COINTELPRO, 9, 71–72 colonialism, 2 Convergence Center, 40, 74, 80, 86, 144, 148 CopWatch, 126–27 corporation involvement in social control , 72 counterinsurgency, 10, 72, 77, 149 counterprotesters, 83 countersummits, 40 criminalization, 43, 75, 78, 89, 94–98, 103, 105, 139, 140; effects on social movement organizations, 106 criminal standard 73 culture of fear 1, 114 cultures of resistance/culture of protest 14, 76, 112-17 databases, 72–73, 78, 98–99, 121 detention, 43, 71, 79, 81 direct action, 16-18, 47, 67, 87, 125, 130, 158–59 disruption, 17-18, 26, 147 dissent, 10-15 Do-It-Yourself(DIY) concept, 18 escalated force, 65–66 exhaustion, tactic of, 67, 79, 100 fence, 1, 32, 36, 52, 68, 81, 91; breaching, 124 flows, 7, 26, 29–30, 35, 102, 162 framing, 13, 117 global governance, 26–29, 34, 36, 44–48, 61, 149–50, 171 grand juries, 77, 88, 139 204  Index Green Scare, 77, 87–88, 109 “grey area” of legality, 87 grid 37 identity, 13, 94 IMF riots, 24 infrastructures, activists, 40 injunction, 80, 130 intimidation, 60, 68, 79, 96–97, 136 Kessel/kettle, 38, 125 Know Your Rights 130, 138 legal observation, 126–27 legal standing/strategy, 121 151–52 legislative forms of social control. See regulatory/legislative social control legitimacy, 20, 27, 44 “less lethal” weapons, 44, 49, 60, 82, 84–85, 145 litigation regarding state actions, 132–38 locality, political context/history of, 31–33; courts, 87; long-term effects on, 46 69; remoteness/isolation, 32–34; rurality, 33, 44 Low-Intensity Operations (LIO) 60 148–49 “marshals,” protest, 70 Miami model 66, 89 militarization: of activism 163; of social control 43, 53, 60, 75, 89–90, 149 NAFTA, 31 negotiated management, 36, 42–43, 65–68, 80 networks, as a dimension of social movements, 8, 11-12, 14-15, 25, 27, 77, 91–93, 106, 109, 115, 117, 128 Operation Backfire, 87 pens, 39 performativity, 79 permits, 42, 70–71, 80, 95 police: culture, 76; riots, 67; multiagency collaboration, 37, 67, 87, 148 political consciousness, 13, 102 political opportunity structure, 13, 25, 110 precarity, 1 preemption, 11, 30, 37, 41, 43, 47, 66, 68, 72, 86, 96–99, 148 prefigurative, 116 property damage, 56, 87 prosecution: of activists, 46, 81, 86–89, 112, 128–32; antirepression work regarding, 140; of social control acts by the state, 132–38 protest, 14; structuring of, 71 protest pits, 71, 118 public relations, 54, 94 queer theory, 6 raids, 40, 75, 78–80 regulatory/legislative social control, 41, 69–70, 98 representation, 17 resistance, 14 resource mobilization, 13-14, 68, 91, 108, 110, 118, 121 Schengen Agreement, 37, 42, 66 security culture, 114, 142 selective enforcement, 5, 32, 65, 89, 100 snake march, 38 snatch squads, 43, 83, 125, 144 social control, 3-10 social movement, 12-15, 105; cross-fertilization between, 105; legal standing for 121; social movement organization , 106; as target of social control 72, 110, 116; as unit of analysis, 19, 106 space, 26–29, 31, 92, 110-12, 148, 151 antirepression work to defend, 123–28 spokescouncils, 74 state of exception, 149 strategic incapacitation, 48, 67 summit meetings, 19, 25, 49, 61 surveillance, 39, 65, 71–79, 88, 107-10, 112, 149 Index  205 targeting, 9-10, 40–41, 60, 71–73, 83, 94, 108, 112, 116, 140 technologies of control, 6 technologies of the self, 7, 10, 94 temporal dimensions...