A.K. Thompson is the first scholar to offer an analysis and investigation of the black bloc (the masked, militant, and decentralized anti-globalization army that is inextricably linked to our memory of the mass protests at the turn of the century) that refuses to shy away from the issue of violence – and the only scholar to suggest the positive and liberatory effects of the black bloc on white middle-class politics. Revisiting the struggles against globalization in Canada and the US at the turn...
