Policing Environmental Protest

Power and Resistance in Pandemic Times
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-5292-2875-5
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 146 Seiten, Format (B × H): 211 mm x 132 mm, Gewicht: 266 g

This book addresses the policing and social control of eco–justice movements during the COVID–19 pandemic, as well as activist practices of resistance during the same period. It is based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Trento, Italy, focusing on two eco–justice groups opposing a high–speed railway and the containment of wild bears.

Rooted in critical, green, cultural and sensory approaches within criminology, the book discusses the intensification of policing strategies against eco–justice protesters during the pandemic and their increased exclusion from urban centres. Highlighting activists’ radical and transformative practices of resistance, the book identifies directions for future critical and green criminological research in the area.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Di Ronco, Anna

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Klimawandel, Globale Erwärmung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Interessengruppen, Lobbyismus und Protestbewegungen
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Soziale & wirtschaftliche Auswirkungen von Umweltfaktoren
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

1. Flexing the Muscles of Power: Policing Urban Eco-Justice Activism During the Pandemic

2. Power, Consumption, Disorder and Protest in Inner-City Centres

3. Atmospheres of Eco-Justice Resistance during the Pandemic

Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Anna Di Ronco is Senior Lecturer and Director of the Centre for Criminology at the University of Essex.