As the representatives of political authority the police are often the targets for protesters’ interventions and their very presence can in turn ‘trigger’ political disorder. In this article I analyze two radically different approaches to the policing of protest: protest policing in conjunction with the EU Summit meetings in Göteborg 2001 and Copenhagen 2002. In what ways are spaces for democratic protest protected, alternatively threatened, by political policing? Unquestionably, direct threats are posed to the public spaces for political protest in the event of serious public disorder and even more seriously in the event of police riots as we witnessed in Gothenburg. A deployment of ‘keystone cops’ in the action spaces of social movement p...
In this paper we focus on the handling by the police of mass demonstrations in Switzerland during th...
Since the early 2000s, governments in many Western democracies have introduced policies and practice...
In the last ten years several violent protests have emerged in Sweden´s largest cities. Some of them...
As the representatives of political authority the police are often the targets for protesters’ inter...
Throughout history, those in power have monitored and exercised control over individuals and groups ...
This C-paper is a study of state practices around the anti-EU demonstrations in Gothenburg 2001. Bas...
The contracting of private guards to patrol public spaces has rapidly become a widespread approach t...
This article analyzes policing political protest in post-independent Lithuania. It argues that since...
The policing of mass public protest is complex, uncertain and unpredictable. The art of policing is ...
In the wake of the death of Ian Tomlinson at the London G20 protests in 2009, Her Majesty’s Inspecto...
Protests challenging the police pose a significant reputational threat to law enforcement. The threa...
abstract: Protests at recent international summit meetings have prompted assertions about ‘global pr...
Violence is put in a specific context when the police are the perpetrator of violence rendering viol...
In this paper we focus on the handling by the police of mass demonstrations in Switzerland during th...
Descriptions of social movement factionalism are often based on the dichotomous conception of lawful...
In this paper we focus on the handling by the police of mass demonstrations in Switzerland during th...
Since the early 2000s, governments in many Western democracies have introduced policies and practice...
In the last ten years several violent protests have emerged in Sweden´s largest cities. Some of them...
As the representatives of political authority the police are often the targets for protesters’ inter...
Throughout history, those in power have monitored and exercised control over individuals and groups ...
This C-paper is a study of state practices around the anti-EU demonstrations in Gothenburg 2001. Bas...
The contracting of private guards to patrol public spaces has rapidly become a widespread approach t...
This article analyzes policing political protest in post-independent Lithuania. It argues that since...
The policing of mass public protest is complex, uncertain and unpredictable. The art of policing is ...
In the wake of the death of Ian Tomlinson at the London G20 protests in 2009, Her Majesty’s Inspecto...
Protests challenging the police pose a significant reputational threat to law enforcement. The threa...
abstract: Protests at recent international summit meetings have prompted assertions about ‘global pr...
Violence is put in a specific context when the police are the perpetrator of violence rendering viol...
In this paper we focus on the handling by the police of mass demonstrations in Switzerland during th...
Descriptions of social movement factionalism are often based on the dichotomous conception of lawful...
In this paper we focus on the handling by the police of mass demonstrations in Switzerland during th...
Since the early 2000s, governments in many Western democracies have introduced policies and practice...
In the last ten years several violent protests have emerged in Sweden´s largest cities. Some of them...