Criminalisation of political activism: a conversation across disciplines

IF 1.8 Q2 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
F. Cristiano, Deanna Dadusc, Tracey Davanna, Koshka Duff, J. Gilmore, Chris Rossdale, Federica Rossi, Adan Tatour, Lana Tatour, W. Tufail, E. Weizman
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This Intervention presents a conversation amongst a collective of scholars who are in the process of establishing a research network studying the criminalisation of dissent. The new UK Police, Crime, Sentencing, Courts Act 2022 is just one recent example of attempts by ‘liberal democratic’ states to criminalise political activism and restrict the right to protest. Similar legislative measures, repressive policing practices, and discourses delegitimating dissent can be observed across a variety of geographic and socio-political contexts. In this discussion, we interrogate both the concept of ‘criminalisation of political activism’ and the practices through which criminalisation is enacted by sharing examples and analyses from our research. We approach criminalisation as a process that changes with circumstances and is shaped by a multiplicity of state and non-state actors and agencies, and question the analytical gentrification that narrows resistance and rebellion to the exclusionary category of activism. Our different disciplinary and regional foci bring together the historical and the contemporary, the (liberal) settler colony and (colonial) liberal democracy, to reflect collectively on the formal and informal tools, technologies and strategies used to criminalise dissent. The conversation took place in November 2022 and was then transcribed and lightly edited for clarity.
政治激进主义的犯罪化:跨学科对话
本期《介入》呈现了一群学者之间的对话,他们正在建立一个研究网络,研究异见人士的犯罪行为。新的英国警察、犯罪、量刑和法院法案2022只是“自由民主”国家试图将政治激进主义定为犯罪并限制抗议权利的最近一个例子。在不同的地理和社会政治背景下,都可以观察到类似的立法措施、镇压性的警务实践和使异议合法化的话语。在这次讨论中,我们通过分享我们研究中的例子和分析,对“政治激进主义犯罪化”的概念和实施犯罪化的实践进行了质疑。我们将刑事定罪视为一个随环境而变化的过程,并由国家和非国家行为者和机构的多样性所塑造,并质疑分析性的中产阶级化,这种中产阶级化将抵抗和反叛缩小到排外的行动主义类别。我们不同的学科和区域焦点汇集了历史和当代,(自由)定居者殖民地和(殖民)自由民主,集体反思用于将异议定为犯罪的正式和非正式工具,技术和策略。这段对话发生在2022年11月,为了清晰起见,随后进行了转录和轻微编辑。
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