{"product_id":"the-once-and-future-riot-joe-sacco-9781787334328","title":"The Once and Future Riot","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the ground-breaking graphics journalist and author of Palestine, a revelatory investigation of the deadly sectarian riots in 2013 Uttar Pradesh, India, and their urgent global significance today\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the ground-breaking graphics journalist and author of Palestine, a revelatory investigation of the deadly sectarian riots in 2013 Uttar Pradesh, India, and their urgent global significance today\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJoe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSacco has chronicled the urgent histories that define the world around us, from the Great War to Gaza. Here, the award winning cartoonist turns his masterful visual reportage to a story that is specific to India but with implications and resonance for us all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e*\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePRAISE FOR JOE SACCO- \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'One of the masters of his craft' New Statesman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A pioneer of the genre' TLS\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Formidably talented.' Independent \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'The hands-down boss of his particular corner of contemporary literature' Dazed \u0026amp; Confused\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Sacco's brilliant, excruciating books of war reportage are potent territory... He shows how much that is crucial to our lives a book can hold' New York Times Book Review\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Joe Sacco","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":48523990532339,"sku":"9781787334328","price":55.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/9781787334328.jpg?v=1771441886","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/the-once-and-future-riot-joe-sacco-9781787334328","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}