Çiğdem Çidam's dazzling book shows how democratic theory's focus on the eruptive character of mass protests obscures the lived practices of activists that made those eruptions possible, in all of their messiness and conflict, and the lessons they can offer about the meaning of radical democracy today. Conceptually innovative and beautifully written, In the Street is a timely provocation to rethink the ways we talk about the praxis of protest.
Cigdem Cidam is Associate Professor of Political Science at Union College.