<i>Two Sides of a Barricade</i> argues that to construct global democracy, conflict and dissent must be taken seriously. Christian Scholl explores the political significance of the confrontations within four sites of interaction: bodies, space, communication, and law. Each site of struggle provides a different entry point to understand the influence of protester and police tactics on each other. At the same time, the four sites of struggle allow a comprehensive analysis of how the contestation of global hegemonic forces during summit protests trigger a preemptive shift in social control through increased deployment of biopolitical forms of power.<br><br>This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to Knowledge Unlatched—an initiative that provides libraries and institutions with a centralized platform to support OA collections and from leading publishing houses and OA initiatives. Learn more at the Knowledge Unlatched website at: <a href="https://www.knowledgeunlatched.org/"">https://www.knowledgeunlatched.org/</a>, and access the book online at the SUNY Open Access Repository at <a href="http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/1709"> http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/1709</a>. Read Less