Essays about: "protest policing"

Found 5 essays containing the words protest policing.

1. 1. Police violence and the state: The negotiation of the boundaries between legitimated and illegitimate police violence in the context of the gilets jaunes protests

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Rättssociologiska institutionen

   Author : Merle Emrich; [2022]
   Keywords : police violence; protest movements; protest policing; gilets jaunes; loi anticasseurs; loi sécurité globale; France; Walter Benjamin; Hannah Arendt; discourse; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The French gilets jaunes (yellow vest) protest movement, sparked by a planned carbon fuel tax in 2018 is marked by numerous injuries and mutilations of protesters by police, and characterised by a shift towards a more confrontational protest policing strategy. Viewing protest policing and police violence as interlinked with political processes, this thesis explores the question of how the boundaries between sanctioned and unsanctioned police violence are (re-)negotiated in the intersections of law (enforcement) and politics in the specific context of the gilets jaunes movement. READ MORE

3. 2. Framing the 2020 Black Lives Matter Protests: a socio-legal study of partisan news coverage

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Rättssociologiska institutionen

   Author : Daniel Leander Clément; [2022]
   Keywords : Black Lives Matter; Protest Paradigm; Moral Foundations Theory; police brutality; racial bias; news coverage; CNN; Fox News; New York Times; framing; legal culture; socio-legal; sociology of law; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The 2020 Black Lives Matter protests brought national attention to the issue of police brutality against black Americans. Across the US, millions of people participated in the protests. This study was conducted with the aim to study news coverage of those events from a socio-legal perspective. READ MORE

4. 3. The Limerick Soviet : Workers' motivations for the general strike in Limerick, 1919

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Historiska institutionen

   Author : Martha Dunster; [2021]
   Keywords : Labour unions; syndicalism; strikes; Limerick; Irish republicanism;

   Abstract : In April 1919, the Trades and Labour Council of Limerick County, Ireland, declared a general strike in response to the increasingly militarised policing of the region by the British authorities. A Strike Committee, consisting of local activists, assumed governance of Limerick for two weeks. READ MORE

5. 4. Being (dis)obedient: An analysis of the climate justice movement's use of civil disobedience at COP21 in the light of the French state of emergency

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

   Author : Julian Wortmann; [2016]
   Keywords : climate justice movement; COP21; Red Lines protest; civil disobedience; nonviolence; power; policing protests; state of emergency; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Within the climate justice movement there is a clear tendency in the last years towards actions of civil disobedience. The Red Lines protest in Paris during COP21 was meant to be one of the main events of the movement in 2015. READ MORE

6. 5. "Am I Next?" : a narrative analysis of African Americans’ public responses to the deadly shooting of Michael Brown

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Mänskliga rättigheter

   Author : Nadine Flatt; [2015]
   Keywords : African American; oppression; police violence; group identity; social justice; Michael Brown; United States; narratives; blackness; racial stereotypes; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Cases of deadly use of police force against young colored men have historically been, and are still common in the American context. The public reactions by the social group of African Americans to such incidents aim to draw attention to how racism and racist stereotypes is affecting policing in the United States. READ MORE