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Mob Rule in New Orleans: Anarchy, Governance, and Media Representation
- Biography
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 33, Number 1, Winter 2010
- pp. 185-208
- 10.1353/bio.0.0158
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This article deconstructs the terms "anarchy" and "mob rule," which are used to restore legitimacy to failed hegemonic structures and to misrepresent collective governance working outside those structures. I use this argument to reinterpret Mob Rule in New Orleans by Ida B Wells, and ultimately, to contribute to a new theory of "crisis."