New book by Florian Hessdörfer, Andrea Pabst, Peter Ullrich is out, and free for download here or here (pdf). You can also order a copy at your local bookstore.
In the book there’s also a chapter by Andrej Holm and me, reflecting life with surveillance.
The details:
Prevent and Tame.
Protest under (Self)ControlFlorian Heßdörfer, Andrea Pabst, Peter Ullrich (Eds.)
The common dualistic approach to social movements tends to see power and resistance as separate and independent antagonists. The contributors to this book aim to transcend that approach, arguing that to adequately analyze ongoing struggles, it is also critically important to trace the constitutive interconnectedness between social movements and power. This is the aim of the title “Prevent and Tame”: emergent strategies to prevent and tame protest―whether they are undertaken by the state or by factions within the movements themselves―have given rise to new kinds of social relations and regulations that call for a new approach to research on social movements and protest.