“Imagine the streets”: The spatial dimension of protests' transformative effects and its role in building movement identity

Daphi, Priska

doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2016.10.003

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“…In this line of argumentation, some authors have underlined the role of urban memory, built into social interactions through space for the strength, legitimacy, and collective identity of social movements (Daphi, 2017b; Daphi & Zamponi, 2019). This urban memory contributes to the recuperation and recreation of past practices, symbols, and discourses by supporting the goals of collective action (Daphi, 2017b; Spencer, 2016), as well as the strengthening of the movement, its identity, and its demands in the present (Badilla Rajevic, 2019; Daphi & Zamponi, 2019). In this sense, urban memory can update and revive the imaginary and projects of a social movement, as well as its impact on the city (Spencer, 2016).…”

Section: The Chilean Anti-neoliberal Movement and Its Multiple Urban mentioning

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When a Social Movement Quarantines: The Power of Urban Memory in the 2019 Chilean Anti-neoliberal Uprising

Rajevic

2020

Space and Culture

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This article reflects on the connections between space, social movements, and urban memory by analyzing the effects of quarantine on the massive Chilean anti-neoliberal movement. It explores two aspects of the quarantine that have unsettled and challenged the spatial dimension of collective action: restrictions on transit through the city and the imposition of hygienic measures on infrastructure and social interactions. The article suggests that these aspects represent a concrete threat to social movements, while at the same time push to strengthen alternative spaces and repertoires of action. It concludes by illustrating the role of urban memories on the potential continuity of the mobilizations and their demands.

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Section: The Chilean Anti-neoliberal Movement and Its Multiple Urban mentioning

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When a Social Movement Quarantines: The Power of Urban Memory in the 2019 Chilean Anti-neoliberal Uprising

Rajevic

2020

Space and Culture

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“…In addressing blockades and civil disobedience, emphasis in political geography has been on social dynamics around zones of extraction ( Brock & Dunlap, 2018 ) and collective street spaces as sites of policing, protest and solidarity-building ( Daphi, 2017 ). Walenta (2020) argues that, broadly speaking, geography as a field has only very minimally engaged courtroom ethnography as a method, despite its considerable potential for interrogating intersections of legal space, political geographies of power and lived experiences.…”

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Climate injustice, criminalisation of land protection and anti-colonial solidarity: Courtroom ethnography in an age of fossil fuel violence

Spiegel

2021

Political Geography

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As plans for expanding fossil fuel infrastructure continue to ramp up despite threats to the planet, how are geographers to address the criminalisation and prosecution of peaceful acts of defending earth, water and land? Reflecting on a courtroom ethnography and debates spanning legal geography, political ecology and social movements studies, this article explores embodied struggles around oil, ‘justice’ and geographies of caring – discussing how Indigenous youth, grandmothers in their eighties and others were convicted of ‘criminal contempt’ for being on a road near an oil pipeline expansion project. The project (“Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion”) was created to transport unprecedented levels of heavy oil (bitumen) across hundreds of kilometres of Indigenous peoples' territory that was never ceded to settler-colonial authorities in Canada. Focusing on a controversial injunction designed to protect oil industry expansion, the discussion explores the performativity of a judge's exercise of power, including in denying the necessity to act defence, side-lining Indigenous jurisdiction, and escalating prison sentences. Courtroom ethnography offers a unique vantage point for witnessing power at work and vast resources used by state actors to suppress issues fundamental to the United Nations Declaration on Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the Paris Climate Accord. It also provides a lens into the intersectional solidarity and ethics of care among those who dare to challenge colonialism and hyper-extractivism, inviting engagement with multiple meanings of ‘ irreparable harm ’ at various scales. The article calls for more attention to power relations, values and affects shaping courtroom dynamics in an age in which fossil fuel interests, climate crisis and settler-colonial control over courts are entwined in evermore-complex violent entanglements.

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“…The existing optimization literature in the field of social crisis has focused on some problems, including resource allocation [31], [32], information sharing [33], and crisis early warning of terrorist attacks or protests [34]. For example, Daphi [35] investigated the role of protests' spatiality in their transformative influence by using a narrow approach to space. Liu et al [36] studied the law of behavior in the process of group evacuation by considering the overall effect of pedestrians and the micro characteristics of individuals.…”

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An Extensive Evolutionary Mental Game Model for the Mandatory Evacuation of Protesters by Police

Lei

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IEEE Access

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The street protests and other mass demonstrations that have occurred frequently in recent years have resulted in considerable political pressure and have destabilized countries. How governments respond to such emergencies, and whether to evacuate protesters quickly, has been one of the most important public management challenges facing modern governments. In the case of evacuating protesters through police force, issues to consider include the cognitive differences among the conflicting parties and the cost-benefit considerations between the alternative strategies of mandatory evacuation and compromise. In this paper, the evolutionary dynamic of the mandatory evacuation of protesters by police is analyzed by extensive evolutionary game theory. Considering the cognitive differences among the conflicting parties, mental models of the interactions between government officials and protesters are constructed, which can not only avoid the uncertainty of evolutionary equilibrium but also consider the belief learning in the interior of the dynamic stage game. The evolutionary dynamic analysis of the mandatory evacuation of protesters is subsequently performed. To verify the effectiveness of the model set out, a multiagent simulation analysis based on a real case study of the Ningbo PX incident is presented. Furthermore, the decision-making related to police evacuation of protesters is based on the cost-benefit analysis between mandatory evacuation and compromise, the minimal number of police required, and the on-the-spot deployment plans of the police. The analysis shows that when facing protesters marching along a street, the evacuation measures are more effective if the police actions target the first several rows of protesters. However, in the case of protesters gathering near iconic buildings (or surrounding their demonstration leaders), the emergency plan of the mandatory evacuation of the protesters is less effective.

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“Imagine the streets”: The spatial dimension of protests' transformative effects and its role in building movement identity

Cited by 18 publications

References 52 publications

When a Social Movement Quarantines: The Power of Urban Memory in the 2019 Chilean Anti-neoliberal Uprising

When a Social Movement Quarantines: The Power of Urban Memory in the 2019 Chilean Anti-neoliberal Uprising

Climate injustice, criminalisation of land protection and anti-colonial solidarity: Courtroom ethnography in an age of fossil fuel violence

An Extensive Evolutionary Mental Game Model for the Mandatory Evacuation of Protesters by Police

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