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.

Covers the criminalisation of Indigenous Peoples, ethnic groups, feminist, housing and independence movement activists Discusses a wide array of vulnerable groups and countries across the global South and North Explores the criminalisation of dissent in both authoritarian and democratic contexts

Autorentext

Anna Di Ronco is Associate Professor at the University of Bologna, Italy, and Honorary Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Essex, UK.

Rossella Selmini is Associate Professor of Criminology at the Department of Legal Sciences at the University of Bologna, Italy.

Inhalt

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, Ramón 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, Bogotá-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, Liège 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 Universität 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 (Bogotá, 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; Rossella 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.