Riot. Strike. Riot: The New Era of Uprisings

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Riot. Strike. Riot: The New Era of Uprisings

Award winning poet Joshua Clover theorises the riot as the form of the coming insurrection

Baltimore. Ferguson. Tottenham. Clichy-sous-Bois. Oakland. Ours has become an â€œage of riotsâ€ as the struggle of people versus state and capital has taken to the streets. Award-winning poet and scholar Joshua Clover offers a new understanding of this present moment and its history. Rioting was the central form of protest in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and was supplanted by the strike in the early nineteenth century. It returned to prominence in the 1970s, profoundly changed along with the coordinates of race and class.

From early wage demands to recent social justice campaigns pursued through occupations and blockades, Clover connects these protests to the upheavals of a sclerotic economy in a state of moral collapse. Historical events such as the global economic crisis of 1973 and the decline of organized labor, viewed from the perspective of vast social transformations, are the proper context for understanding these eruptions of discontent. As social unrest against an unsustainable order continues to grow, this valuable history will help guide future antagonists in their struggles toward a revolutionary horizon.
Country USA
Brand Verso
Manufacturer Verso
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 24928557
Color White
ReleaseDate 2016-05-17
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781784780593

Country	USA
Brand	Verso
Manufacturer	Verso
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	24928557
Color	White
ReleaseDate	2016-05-17
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781784780593

Riot. Strike. Riot: The New Era of Uprisings

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