Dan Hancox

Multitudes (eBook, ePUB)

How Crowds Made the Modern World

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From raucous football matches and raves to rubber-bullet-riddled riots, Hancox takes us into the crowd's pulsating heart to pose the questions that will define our age. Multitudes argues it is time to rethink long-held assumptions about crowd behaviour and psychology. The story of the modern world is the story of multitudes in action. Crowds are the ultimate force for change: the bringer of conviviality, euphoria, mass culture and democracy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Verso
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781804294505
• Artikelnr.: 72269986

Autorenporträt

Dan Hancox is a native Londoner who writes about music, politics, gentrification, social exclusion, protest and the margins of urban life, chiefly for the Guardian, but also the New York Times, Vice, The Fader, Dazed & Confused and XXL.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: El Carnaval de Cádiz
Introduction: The Age of the Crowd
1. Paris Is Burning: Revolutionary Crowds
2. The Nuremberg Spectacle: Authoritarian Crowds
3. ‘Feral Thugs’: Protest and Riot Crowds
4. Among the Slum People: Football Crowds
5. The World Turned Upside Down: Carnival Crowds
6. The Invention of Modern Life: Urban Crowds
7. Myths and Scapegoats: Fatal Crowds
Conclusion: There to Be a Crowd
Acknowledgements
Notes
Index

Rezensionen

British journalist Dan Hancox, in his new book Multitudes goes much further than his scholarly forebears in the effort to defend the crowd from its defamers. He is an unstinting admirer of crowds and crowd action, not just as a means of social change but as a heady social experience of transcendence. Adam Gopnik The New Yorker