Policing Protest: The Post-Democratic State and the Figure of Black Insurrection

Paul A. Passavant

ISBN 10: 1478010452 / ISBN 13: 9781478010456

Published by Duke University Press, 2021

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Policing Protest: The Post-Democratic State and the Figure of Black Insurrection
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1478010452
• ISBN 13: 9781478010456
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

In Policing Protest Paul A. Passavant explores how the policing of protest in the United States has become increasingly hostile since the late 1990s, moving away from strategies that protect protesters toward militaristic practices designed to suppress protests. He identifies reactions to three interrelated crises that converged to institutionalize this new mode of policing: the political mobilization of marginalized social groups in the Civil Rights era that led to a perceived crisis of democracy, the urban fiscal crisis of the 1970s, and a crime crisis that was associated with protests and civil disobedience of the 1960s. As Passavant demonstrates, these reactions are all haunted by the figure of black insurrection, which continues to shape policing of protest and surveillance, notably in response to the Black Lives Matter movement. Ultimately, Passavant argues, this trend of violent policing strategies against protesters is evidence of the emergence of a post-democratic state in the United States.

About the Author

Paul A. Passavant is Associate Professor of Political Science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, the author of No Escape: Freedom of Speech and the Paradox of Rights, and coeditor of Empire's New Clothes: Reading Hardt and Negri.