Bulletin n. 2-3/2012
October 2012-February 2013
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Samuel Chris
    Throwing Bricks at a Brick Wall: The G20 and the Antinomies of Protest
    in Studies in Political Economy , Vol 90, 2012 ,  2012
    In “Throwing Bricks at a Brick Wall: The G20 and the Antinomies of Protest,” an examination of the protests against the June 2010 G20 meetings, Chris Samuel argues that debate about the appropriateness of the protestors’ tactics has missed the central question: what impact can oppositional movements have in the current political-economic climate? Samuel posits that it is impossible to adopt the “right” form of political protest in a political field in which there was no opportunity to influence the negotiations. Using Bourdieu’s concept of symbolic power, he argues that the construction of violence “forced protestors to decide between ineffectual marches and marginalizing vandalism.”
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