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Informationen zum Autor MIKE KING is an assistant professor of criminal justice at Bridgewater State University in Massachusetts. Klappentext In When Riot Cops Are Not Enough, sociologist Mike King examines the policing, and broader political repression, of the Occupy Oakland movement. King’s active and daily participation in that movement provides a unique insider perspective to illustrate how the Oakland police and city administrators lost the ability to effectively control the movement. Zusammenfassung In When Riot Cops Are Not Enough, sociologist Mike King examines the policing, and broader political repression, of the Occupy Oakland movement. King’s active and daily participation in that movement provides a unique insider perspective to illustrate how the Oakland police and city administrators lost the ability to effectively control the movement. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments1 The Commune by the Bay: The Origins of Occupy Oakland2 From Permits to Storm Troopers: Repression, Social Control, and the Governmentality of Protest3 The Oakland Commune, Police Violence, and Political Opportunity4 Legitimation Repression through Depoliticizing It: Federal Coordination, “Health and Safety,” and the November 2011 Occupy Evictions5 Putting the Occupy Oakland Vigil to Sleep: Anti-Gang Techniques and the Oakland Police Department’s State of Exception6 The Meshing of Force and Legitimacy in the Repression of Occupy Oakland’s Move-In Day7 Poison in the Garden: A Spring of Seeds That Never Grew¿8 Beyond Control: Fostering Legitimate Counter-Conduct NotesReferencesIndex
