William I Robinson

The Global Police State (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

As the world becomes ever more unequal, people become ever more 'disposable'. Today, governments systematically exclude sections of their populations from society through heavy-handed policing. But it doesn't always go to plan. William I. Robinson exposes the nature and dynamics of this out-of-control system, arguing for the urgency of creating a movement capable of overthrowing it.

The global police state uses a variety of ingenious methods of control, including mass incarceration, police violence, US-led wars, the persecution of immigrants and refugees, and the repression of environmental activists. Movements have emerged to combat the increasing militarization, surveillance and social cleansing; however many of them appeal to a moral sense of social justice rather than addressing its root - global capitalism.

Using shocking data which reveals how far capitalism has become a system of repression, Robinson argues that the emerging megacities of the world are becoming the battlegrounds where the excluded and the oppressed face off against the global police state.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pluto Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781786806666
• Artikelnr.: 60051610

Autorenporträt

William I. Robinson is Professor of Sociology, Global Studies, and Latin American Studies, at the University of California-Santa Barbara. Among his many award-winning books are Global Capitalism and the Crisis of Humanity (CUP, 2014) and We Will Not Be Silenced (Pluto, 2017).

Inhaltsangabe

A Brief Acknowledgment of Collective Authorship
List of Acronyms
Introduction: "George Orwell Got It Wrong"
1. Global Capitalism and its Crisis
2. Savage Inequalities: The Imperative of Social Control
3. Militarized Accumulation and Accumulation by Repression
4. The Battle for the Future
Notes
Index