{"product_id":"the-once-and-future-riot","title":"The Once and Future Riot","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Once and Future Riot\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHailed as “the heir to R. Crumb and Art Spiegelman” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eEconomist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Neighborhood Comics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43150076608548,"sku":null,"price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/7782\/9668\/files\/IMG-3265.jpg?v=1768071200","url":"https:\/\/neighborhoodcomics.com\/products\/the-once-and-future-riot","provider":"Neighborhood Comics","version":"1.0","type":"link"}