{"product_id":"the-once-and-future-riot-9781250880260b","title":"The Once and Future Riot","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eFrom “our greatest living comics journalist” (Minneapolis \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eStar Tribune\u003c\/span\u003e), a revelatory investigation of deadly sectarian riots in Uttar Pradesh, India, that explores the mechanics, dynamics, mythologies, uses, and abuses of political violence everywhere\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCompared to other episodes of lethal Indian communal violence, the clashes in Uttar Pradesh in 2013, the Muzaffarnagar Riot, were a relatively small-scale affair—some scores of people were killed and several tens of thousands displaced. It had happened before and will probably happen again: Hindus and Muslims, armed with guns and swords, riled up by vitriolic rhetoric and a tangle of accusations, turn on one another. The truth fragments along religious lines, both in the lead-up to the rampage and in its bloody aftermath.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003e The Once and Future Riot,\u003c\/span\u003e Joe Sacco immerses himself in Uttar Pradesh, speaking to government officials, political leaders, village chiefs, and especially the victims, who were mostly landless peasants, in a quest to understand this riot as an archetype of political violence. In the process, he probes the role of savagery in a democracy; the power of crowds, rather than leaders, to influence the course of events; the collision of competing narratives; and the accounts that perpetrators construct to explain away their participation in bloodshed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHailed as “the heir to R. Crumb and Art Spiegelman” (\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eEconomist\u003c\/span\u003e), Sacco has chronicled the urgent histories that define the world around us, from the Great War to Gaza. Here, he turns his masterful visual reportage to a story that is specific to India but with implications and resonance for all precarious multiethnic, multiracial societies everywhere.","brand":"Metropolitan Books","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42819075080272,"sku":"9781250880260B","price":17.49,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9781250880260-l.jpg?v=1785874539","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/en-ca\/products\/the-once-and-future-riot-9781250880260b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}