GLOBAL VIGILANTES by David Pratten (Editor), Atreyee Sen (Editor) ( 9781850658382 )

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Title:

GLOBAL VIGILANTES

By:

David Pratten (Editor), Atreyee Sen (Editor)

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1850658382

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C HURST & CO PUBLISHERS LTD

Pub. date:

1 March, 2007

Edition:

New ed.

Pages:

448

Description:

Offers a comprehensive overview of contemporary vigilantism in its relation to different members of society and to state authorities. This book explores how vigilantes produce and reproduce themselves within shifting climates of hate and fear. It also explores the cults and cultures of conflict associated with vigilantism.

Synopsis:

Vigilantes and organised vigilantism are a growing phenomenon, as this book amply demonstrates. From Northern Ireland to West Africa, from Bombay or Moscow, vigilante movements and ideologies have widespread appeal. Whether as localised 'self-policing' of crime and other forms of social behaviour, or as surveillance of drug trafficking or terrorism, vigilantes patrol the frontiers that emerge as transnational global flows meet real or imagined political borders. "Global Vigilantes" is the first book to offer a comprehensive overview of contemporary vigilantism in its relation to different members of society and to state authorities. It explores how vigilantes produce and reproduce themselves within shifting climates of hate and fear; it addresses their historical antecedents; explores the cults and cultures of conflict associated with vigilantism, and analyses the modes, meanings and methods of vigilante vilolence.

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