Policing unacceptable protest in England and Wales: A case study of the policing of anti-fracking protests

Jackson, W. G.; Gilmore, Joanna; Monk, Helen

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“…This article focusses on one key finding from the research project -that several women who were involved in the daily protests at Barton Moss reported sexualised violence and harassment by Greater Manchester Police (GMP, hereafter) officers and that differential policing was adopted to police women (Gilmore et al, 2016;Gayle, 2016 (Gilmore et al, 2016). A wide variety of concerns were raised by protesters, legal observers, journalists, and academic researchers, which questioned the nature, function and proportionality of the policing operation and the subsequent criminal justice response (Cullen, 2014;Gilmore et al, 2016Gilmore et al, , 2017Jackson et al, 2018) e . However, the protest was marked by considerable tensions between the protesters and GMP.…”

Section: Moss Campaignmentioning

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Gendering Pacification: Policing Women at Anti-fracking Protests

Monk¹,

Gilmore²,

Jackson³

2019

Feminist Review

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This article seeks to consider the policing of anti-fracking protests at Barton Moss, Salford, from November 2013 to April 2014. We argue that women at Barton Moss were considered by the police to be transgressing the socio-geographical boundaries that establish the dominant cultural and social order, and were thus responded to as disruptive and disorderly subjects. The article draws upon recent work on pacification, which views police power as having both destructive and productive dimensions, to consider the impact of police violence on women involved in protest. We seek to explore the ways in which this violence impacts not only on those involved in protest but also those on the peripheries. The article suggests that the threat and use of sexual violence by police towards women aims to enforce compliance within the protest movement and to send a message, specifically to those on the fringes of the movement, that protest is illegitimate and inherently dangerous. As such, sexual violence forms part of the social production and construction of gender and is instrumental in the making and remaking of subjectivities. The case study suggests that police brutality towards women at Barton Moss, therefore, operated as a disciplinary function to regulate acceptable forms of protest and acceptable forms of femininity.

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Section: Moss Campaignmentioning

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Gendering Pacification: Policing Women at Anti-fracking Protests

Monk¹,

Gilmore²,

Jackson³

2019

Feminist Review

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“…In 2013 a campaign emerged around the intended fracking site of Barton Moss in Salford (Greater Manchester), which involved direct action and civil disobedience (Jackson et al, 2019). In 2013 a campaign emerged around the intended fracking site of Barton Moss in Salford (Greater Manchester), which involved direct action and civil disobedience (Jackson et al, 2019).…”

Section: -Depoliticization Within Manchester's Environmental Scenementioning

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“…There are some exceptions to the decline in environmental resistance in Manchester. In 2013 a campaign emerged around the intended fracking site of Barton Moss in Salford (Greater Manchester), which involved direct action and civil disobedience (Jackson et al, 2019). Around the same time, a protest campaign emerged against the felling of several trees in Manchester's Alexandra park (Haughton et al, 2016).…”

Section: -Depoliticization Within Manchester's Environmental Scenementioning

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Alternatives to Resistance? Comparing Depoliticization in Two British Environmental Movement Scenes

Moor¹

2020

Int J Urban Regional Res

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Processes of politicization and depoliticization are increasingly studied in relation to urban contexts, and cities have been depicted as incubators of social movements. What has been largely ignored is why, in some cities, forces of politicization or depoliticization are stronger than in others. To address this question, this article compares two British cities--Manchester and Bristol--which have historically been central hubs of environmental resistance, but currently face similar depoliticizing forces: austerity, anti-squatting laws, police repression and activists' disillusion with environmentalism. Curiously, these conditions have had very different impacts on the two environmental scenes. In Manchester they have caused environmental resistance to become replaced almost entirely by nonconfrontational 'alternatives'. In Bristol alternatives have emerged that tend to be in synergy with environmental resistance. The comparison thus suggests that Bristol is more conducive to maintaining environmental resistance under depoliticizing conditions. Findings suggest that differences can be attributed to features of the physical urban environment, including city size. Historically, these differences were not decisive. Yet, after a period of dwindling environmentalist energy in the UK, the number of environmentalist hubs has been reduced. This has prompted a reputational snowball that increasingly concentrates environmental resistance in the one city that best insulates the environmental movement from broader depoliticizing forces.

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“…The role of PLOs regarding information and intelligence gathering is unclear, according to the College of Policing (2015: 17-19) and the UN special rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association (UN 2017), among others. Activists and activist networks have argued that beyond attempting to foster dialogue and consensual policing, PLOs carry out intelligence gathering, intimidation and harassment of political activists (see Netpol 2014, DTRTP 2018), making their actions far from consensual (Jackson et al 2019).…”

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Fuerza excesiva, vigilancia policial coercitiva y criminalización de la disidencia. Reprimir la protesta de los jóvenes en la Gran Bretaña del siglo XXI

Pickard¹

2019

Rev. int. sociol.

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Las acciones de protesta organizadas por los jóvenes, y en las que estos son protagonistas clave, son cada vez más numerosas y diversas. Este artículo constituye un estudio de caso detallado de la evolución de los métodos y los medios utilizados por la policía, y del marco legislativo relativo a estas protestas y a los jóvenes manifestantes en Gran Bretaña, basado en la sociología política, las ciencias políticas, la criminología y los estudios sobre la juventud. En primer lugar, el artículo describe las principales acciones de protesta en las que participaron los jóvenes de la Gran Bretaña del siglo XXI. A continuación, documenta la evolución de los instrumentos y métodos policiales. A continuación se explican los cambios en el marco legislativo. En este artículo afirmo que, a través de herramientas y métodos policiales de tipo militar, combinados con leyes autoritarias, los sucesivos gobiernos británicos han desarrollado una policía coercitiva, la vigilancia de los manifestantes y la criminalización de la disidencia. Esto va en contra del discurso oficial que afirma que ha habido un retorno a la actividad policial por consentimiento con mayor respeto de los derechos humanos y al diálogo tras las críticas de varios organismos oficiales. Así, en realidad, un Estado democrático ostensiblemente liberal está ejerciendo una fuerza y una coerción excesivas, como parte de un proceso de securización, en un intento de regular y reprimir las acciones de protesta de los jóvenes ciudadanos, interpretadas como una amenaza perturbadora para el statu quo político. De este modo, se está privando a los jóvenes ciudadanos de su derecho democrático y humano a protestar pacíficamente, con importantes implicaciones para Gran Bretaña y otros países.

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Policing unacceptable protest in England and Wales: A case study of the policing of anti-fracking protests

Abstract: In recent years public order policing policy in England and

Cited by 33 publications

References 23 publications

Gendering Pacification: Policing Women at Anti-fracking Protests

Gendering Pacification: Policing Women at Anti-fracking Protests

Alternatives to Resistance? Comparing Depoliticization in Two British Environmental Movement Scenes

Fuerza excesiva, vigilancia policial coercitiva y criminalización de la disidencia. Reprimir la protesta de los jóvenes en la Gran Bretaña del siglo XXI

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