Two Sides of a Barricade. (Dis)order and Summit Protest in Europe - oplæg og debat

Forfatteren Christian Scholl kommer forbi Folkets hus og fortæller om hans netop udgivne bog "Two Sides of a Barricade. (Dis)order and Summit Protest in Europe". Oplæget og debatten vil foregå på engelsk.

Two Sides of a Barricade investigates how activists confront global powers with their street-level dissent and argues that to construct global democracy, conflict and dissent must be taken seriously. Christian Scholl explores the political significance of the confrontations within four sites of interaction: bodies, space, communication, and law. Each site of struggle provides a different entry point to understand the influence of protester and police tactics on each other. At the same time, the four sites of struggle allow a comprehensive analysis of how the contestation of global hegemonic forces during summit protests trigger a preemptive shift in social control through increased deployment of biopolitical forms of power.

Christian Scholl is a writer, research and activist living in Belgium. He is the coauthor (with Amory Starr and Luis Fernandez) of Shutting Down the Streets: Political Violence and Social Control in the Global Era.