TY - BOOK ID - 30914711 TI - A People’s History of Riots, Protest and the Law : The Sound of the Crowd PY - 2016 SN - 113752751X 1137527501 PB - London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Riots. KW - Riots KW - Social aspects KW - History. KW - Civil disorders KW - Assembly, Right of KW - History KW - Offenses against public safety KW - Political violence KW - Crowds KW - Demonstrations KW - Mobs KW - Street fighting (Military science) KW - Crime—Sociological aspects. KW - Criminology. KW - Terrorism. KW - Sociology, Urban. KW - Criminal Law. KW - History, Modern. KW - Crime and Society. KW - Criminological Theory. KW - Terrorism and Political Violence. KW - Urban Studies/Sociology. KW - Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law. KW - Modern History. KW - Modern history KW - World history, Modern KW - World history KW - Crime KW - Crimes and misdemeanors KW - Criminals KW - Law, Criminal KW - Penal codes KW - Penal law KW - Pleas of the crown KW - Public law KW - Criminal justice, Administration of KW - Criminal procedure KW - Urban sociology KW - Cities and towns KW - Acts of terrorism KW - Attacks, Terrorist KW - Global terrorism KW - International terrorism KW - Political terrorism KW - Terror attacks KW - Terrorist acts KW - Terrorist attacks KW - World terrorism KW - Direct action KW - Insurgency KW - Political crimes and offenses KW - Subversive activities KW - Terror KW - Social sciences KW - Law and legislation KW - Legal status, laws, etc. KW - Study and teaching KW - Political violence. KW - Criminal law. KW - Violence KW - Terrorism UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:30914711 AB - This book examines how movements from below pose challenges to the status quo. The 2010s have seen an explosion of protest movements, sometimes characterised as riots by governments and the media. But these are not new phenomena, rather reflecting thousands of years of conflict between different social classes. Beginning with struggles for democracy and control of the state in Athens and ancient Rome, this book traces the common threads of resistance through the Middle Ages in Europe and into the modern age. As classes change so does the composition of the protestors and the goals of their movements; the one common factor being how groups can mobilise to resist unbearable oppression, thereby developing a crowd consciousness that widens their political horizons and demonstrates the possibility of overthrowing the existing order. To appreciate the roots and motivations of these so-called deviants the author argues that we need to listen to the sound of the crowd. This book will be of interest to researchers of social movements, protests and riots across sociology, history and international relations. ER -