Policing environmental protest: Power and resistance in pandemic times

Description

This book addresses the contemporary urban eco-justice movement, drawing from empirical data collected during the COVID-19 pandemic. The author focuses on the case studies of two eco-justice groups in Trento, Italy, opposing a high-speed railway and the containment of wild bears. Her fieldwork is vividly brought to life via an extensive ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with activists and police in charge of public order. Rooted in critical, green, cultural and sensory approaches within criminology, the book analyses the mobilisation and policing of eco-justice movements during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond, and identifies directions for future critical and green criminological research in the area. Front Cover Policing Environmental Protest: Power and Resistance in Pandemic Times Copyright information Dedication Table of Contents List of Images List of Abbreviations Notes on the Author Acknowledgements Introduction Situating this book theoretically Case study Some conceptual clarity Doing qualitative research during the pandemic: some reflections Structure of the book One Flexing the Muscles of Power: Policing Urban Eco-Justice Activism During the Pandemic Introduction Policing and penalization of protest in Western countries Study background: governing protest in Italy during the pandemic Methodology Findings Police visibility Militarization of space COVID-19-related restrictions Flexing the muscles of power in the policing of eco-justice protest during the pandemic What the future holds? Two Power, Consumption, Disorder and Protest in Inner-City Centres Introduction Regenerated city centres: consumption and the subtle doings of power Regenerated inner-city spaces as a battleground Regeneration and exclusion Gentrification-led displacement Hostile architecture Technologies affecting the senses Incivility regulations and measures Restricting the right to protest in inner-city spaces Limiting protest in public spaces: some considerations Three Atmospheres of Eco-Justice Resistance During the Pandemic Introduction The senses, affect and atmospheres in criminology Methodology Discussion: knowing in, about and through atmospheres of resistance Conclusion Conclusion Focusing on activist radical imaginaries Notes Introduction one Flexing the Muscles of Power: Policing Urban Eco-Justice Activism During the Pandemic two Power, Consumption, Disorder and Protest in Inner-City Centres three Atmospheres of Eco-Justice Resistance During the Pandemic Conclusion References Index