A People’s History of Riots, Protest and the Law

Clement, Matt

doi:10.1057/978-1-137-52751-6

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“…In recent decades, social movements and collective action have mobilized citizens in demanding changes to political regimes, economic policies, and more respect for human rights. A vast academic literature has emerged as a result, to study why, how, when large scale peaceful and violent demonstrations occur and what their repercussions may be [36]. Sociological and social movement studies [37] have been central in describing various theoretical frameworks underlying social unrest.…”

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Temporal clustering of disorder events during the COVID-19 pandemic

Campedelli

D’Orsogna

2021

PLoS ONE

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The COVID-19 pandemic has unleashed multiple public health, socio-economic, and institutional crises. Measures taken to slow the spread of the virus have fostered significant strain between authorities and citizens, leading to waves of social unrest and anti-government demonstrations. We study the temporal nature of pandemic-related disorder events as tallied by the “COVID-19 Disorder Tracker” initiative by focusing on the three countries with the largest number of incidents, India, Israel, and Mexico. By fitting Poisson and Hawkes processes to the stream of data, we find that disorder events are inter-dependent and self-excite in all three countries. Geographic clustering confirms these features at the subnational level, indicating that nationwide disorders emerge as the convergence of meso-scale patterns of self-excitation. Considerable diversity is observed among countries when computing correlations of events between subnational clusters; these are discussed in the context of specific political, societal and geographic characteristics. Israel, the most territorially compact and where large scale protests were coordinated in response to government lockdowns, displays the largest reactivity and the shortest period of influence following an event, as well as the strongest nationwide synchrony. In Mexico, where complete lockdown orders were never mandated, reactivity and nationwide synchrony are lowest. Our work highlights the need for authorities to promote local information campaigns to ensure that livelihoods and virus containment policies are not perceived as mutually exclusive.

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Temporal clustering of disorder events during the COVID-19 pandemic

Campedelli

D’Orsogna

2021

PLoS ONE

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“…This resurgence testifies to the ongoing commitment of organized or newly formed groups to effect sociopolitical change through 'speaking truth to power'. However, social protests are far from being a modern phenomenon; indeed, people have collectively mobilized against injustice since the days of Ancient Greece and Rome (Clement, 2016), but the means of protesting are changing (Segerberg & Bennett, 2011).…”

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#LetThemStay: Visual representations of protests and community mobilization for asylum seekers in Australia

Hall

Lenette

Murray

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The indefinite mandatory detention on the mainland and in offshore processing centers of asylum seekers applying for protection in Australia is particularly controversial due to the government's notoriously harsh policy. In response, large-scale public protests have been staged across the country in recent years to register popular dissent and convey concerns to decision-makers. However, dominant media representations of protests have historically been largely negative, often cast as ineffectual at best, and at worst, violent clashes that alienate the broader population from the cause in question. This paper outlines a visual analysis of media representations of protests that took place in February 2016 against the proposed deportation of 267 asylum seekers from the Australian mainland as part of the #LetThemStay campaign. Through the analysis of four photographs from a range of media outlets, we found that depicting peaceful protests methods and community mobilization complicated dominant understandings of protests and protesters. Indeed, #LetThemStay demonstrated the political power of compassionate solidarity between participants afforded the privilege of safe residency and citizenship, and those forcibly absent who are denied such rights. As such, the paper highlights the impact of peaceful protesting, while also recognizing its limitations in changing Australia's punitive asylum seeker policies.

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“…The 2010s has been hailed a decade of protest (Clement, 2016). Ushered in with the wave of Arab Spring protests across the Middle East and North Africa alongside ongoing street protest after the 2008 financial crisis in Europe and North America, major protest episodes would continue to stir throughout the decade.…”

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Political sociology in a time of protest

Barrie

2021

Current Sociology

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We live in a time of protest. Relative to sociology, political science has traditionally paid little attention to ‘extra-institutional’ forms of political behaviour. For its part, sociology has tended to prioritize the explanation of mobilization processes over political outcomes. Using bibliometric records from 14 political science and sociology journals over the last two decades, this study demonstrates that protest has witnessed a resurgence of interest in political science and that both sociology and political science now share a focus on the outcomes of protest. The article lays out key trends in this research agenda and suggests what is missing, arguing that a political sociology of protest should integrate recent findings from both disciplines to better understand elite decision-making, the mediation of protest information and protestor aims.

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A People’s History of Riots, Protest and the Law

Cited by 12 publications

References 12 publications

Temporal clustering of disorder events during the COVID-19 pandemic

Temporal clustering of disorder events during the COVID-19 pandemic

#LetThemStay: Visual representations of protests and community mobilization for asylum seekers in Australia

Political sociology in a time of protest

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