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Criminalisation of Dissent in Times of Crisis

Criminalisation of Dissent in Times of Crisis

Author: Anna Di Ronco; Rossella Selmini
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9783031753756
Published In: December 2024
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: Switzerland ? Disclaimer:
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This book provides a wide-ranging, global exploration of policies and practices which have sought to undermine dissent during recent and less recent social, political, economic and health 'crises'. Examining various cases of activism and opposition from both the Global North and the Global South, and drawing on multi-disciplinary insights, this book analyses the many ways in which state and non-state actors have targeted dissent, activism and protest, including by vulnerable groups. This includes strategies that have silenced dissenting opinions, restricted the right to protest, intensified policing practices and the surveillance of activists, imposed onerous administrative fines, criminalised and prosecuted dissenters, and even killed activists. Fundamentally, this volume considers 'criminalisation' as a process that develops on a continuum of control and repressive practices that aim to undermine dissent. It contributes to the broader discussion on criminalisation processes, policing, the rule of law, and the quality of our democracies.

Chapter 1. Introduction

Part I: UNDERMINING DISSENT THROUGH CENSURE, SURVEILLANCE AND HARASSMENT

Chapter 2. Book bans, children's literature, and state and corporate power in the twenty-first century

Avi Brisman, Professor at Eastern Kentucky University, Adjunct Professor at Queensland University of Technology and Honorary Professor at the University of Newcastle

Chapter 3. Affective force of the surveillant state: policing dissent in Turkey

Deniz Ionocu, Lecturer, Newcastle University

Chapter 4. Criminalisation of solidarity and production of fear at the border: the case of the French Basque Country border area

Cristina Fernandez-Bessa, Ramon y Cajal-Senior Research Fellow, University of A CorunaIgnacio Mendola, Associate professor, University of the Basque Country - UPV/EHU

Part II: UNDERMINING PROTEST DURING THE COVID-19 HEALTH CRISIS

Chapter 5. When the exception makes the rules: COVID-19 regulations and public order policing in England

Lambros Fatsis, Senior Lecturer, University of Brighton

Chapter 6. Repression of dissent and police powers during and after the 2020 pandemic in Spain: commonalities and differences

Manuel Maroto Calatayud, Professor of Criminal Law, Complutense University of Madrid

Chapter 7. Environmental backlash: understanding experiences of repression against environmental activists in Italy and Brazil during the COVID-19 pandemic

Anna Di Ronco, Senior Lecturer, University of Essex; Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti, Principal Lecturer, University of Brighton

Chapter 8. From the prison yard to the streets: social protest and authoritarianism in Colombia

Manuel Iturralde, Associate Professor, School of Law, Universidad de los Andes, Bogota-Colombia

Part III: CRIMINALISING DISSENT

Chapter 9. The repression of the yellow vests: police, judicial and legislative response to an unprecedented social movement

Manuel Cervera-Marzal, research associate, Liege University / FNRS Vanessa Codaccioni, research professor, Paris VIII University

Chapter 10. Green criminalisation. The criminal approach to environmental protest in Argentina

Valeria Vegh Weis, Research Fellow at Konstanz Universitat and Professor at Universidad de Buenos Aires

Chapter 11. Resisting the criminalisation of dissent and political activism in Albania

Diana Malaj, PhD Researcher, Centre for Southeast European Studies, University of Graz (Austria) Brunilda Pali, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands)

Chapter 12. Historical injuries and colonial criminalisation: the experiences of Indigenous communities in Colombia

Gustavo Rojas Paez, PhD candidate at University of the Basque County, Lecturer in Criminology and Legal Theory at Universidad Libre (Bogota, Colombia)

Chapter 13. Economic crisis, neoliberal austerity and criminalisation of dissent in Sri Lanka

Ramindu Perera, Senior Lecturer, Department of Legal Studies, The Open University of Sri Lanka

PART IV: FRAMING ACTIVISTS AS THREATS, TERRORISTS AND "MAFIA"

Chapter 14. From terrorists to peacemakers? Analysing shifting official discourses on Northern Irish republican prisoners in times of war and peace

Elena Bergia, Visiting Scholar, Queen's University Belfast

Chapter 15. State repression of pro-independence mobilisation: a comparative analysis of the Basque and Catalan cases

ossella Selmini, Associate Professor, University of Bologna ; Adriano Cirulli, Researcher, University of Udine

Chapter 16. Crises, conspiracies, and counterinsurgency: policing and dissent in Pakistan

Zoha Waseem, Assistant Professor, University of Warwick

Chapter 17. Criminality across the carceral geographies of Palestine

Annie Pfingst, Associate Research Fellow, Goldsmiths

Chapter 18. Thresholds of threat: processes of criminalisation and repression in the liberal settler state

Elian Weizman, Senior Lecturer, London South Bank University

Chapter 19. Framing activists as "mafia": the criminalisation of housing and neighbourhood protests in Italy

Stefano Portelli, affiliate, Department of Geography, Leicester University

Chapter 20. The criminalisation of social protest in Italy: The case of the precarious workers against "Il padrone di merda" (the "shitty" boss)

Veronica Marchio, researcher, University of Padua

Part V: KILLING AND EXILING ACTIVISTS

Chapter 21. Killing Latin American feminists: an analysis of the criminalisation of women activists (2015-2022)

Simone da Silva Ribeiro Gomes, Associate Professor in Sociology at Universidade Federal de Pelotas (UFPel) Guilherme Figueredo Benzaquen, Postdoctoral Fellow in Sociology at Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE) Rodrigo Cantu de Souza, Associate Professor in Sociology at UniversidadeFederal de Pelotas (UFPel)

Chapter 22. Persecuted for poetry, peaceful protests and public nudity: autoethnography of a Ugandan exiled ex-convict

Stella Nyanzi (PhD), Writers-in-Exile, PEN Zentrum Deutschland