Politics of Attack - Communiques and Insurrectionary Violence

Informationen zum Autor Michael Loadenthal is Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology and Social Justice at Miami University of Oxford, Ohio and Executive Director of the Peace and Justice Studies Association Klappentext Since the early 2000s, global, underground networks of insurrectionary anarchists have carried out thousands of acts of political violence. This book is an exploration of the ideas, strategies, and history of these political actors that engage in a confrontation with the oppressive powers of the state and capital. This book challenges the reader to consider the historically ignored articulations put forth by those who communicate through sometimes violent political acts-vandalism, sabotage, arson and occasional use of explosives. These small acts of violence are announced and contextualized through written communiqués, which are posted online, translated, and circulated globally. This book offers the first contemporary history of these digitally-mediated networks, and seeks to locate this tendency within anti-state struggles from the past. Zusammenfassung This book asks the reader to consider the theories of bomb-throwing, window-smashing, graffiti-scrawling arsonists, and through an examination of movement communiqués, embrace the critique offered by the clandestine, urban guerrillas fighting for total liberation against the omnipresent forces of violence and coercion. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Concerning method and the study of political violence2. Insurrection as history from Guy Fawkes to black blocs3. Insurrection as a post-millennial, clandestine, network of cells4. Insurrection as warfare, terrorism and revolutionary design5. Insurrection as theory, text, and strategy6. Insurrection as values-driven theory and action7. Insurrection as anti-securitization communicationReferencesIndex

Product details

• Authors: Dr Michael Loadenthal, Michael Loadenthal
• Assisted by: Laurence Davis (Editor), Uri Gordon (Editor), Nathan Jun (Editor), Alex Prichard (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2017
• EAN: 9781526114440
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-1444-0
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Contemporary Anarchist Studies; Contemporary Anarchist Studies
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Terrorism, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Anarchism, Terrorism, armed struggle, Revolutionary groups & movements, Politics and government, Anarchism, HISTORY / Revolutions, Uprisings & Rebellions