POLICING PROTEST THE CONTROL OF MASS DEMONSTRATIONS IN WESTERN DEMOCRACIES 1ST EDITION PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Donatella Della Porta | 9780816630646 | | | | | Policing Protest The Control of Mass Demonstrations in Western Democracies 1st edition PDF Book The way in which content-related assessments have an influence on protest diagnoses, thereby creating political prognoses of danger , will subsequently be demonstrated using another sequence. The article first outlines the main protest actions involving young people in twenty-first century Britain. On 13 September, the "Heroes March" rally took place in Minsk. Police thus face groups with mixed and sometimes incompatible strategies operating in fluid interaction. These examples support predominantly bipolar oppositions. Kurban was brought to the surface and, accompanied by an employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, taken to a psychoneurological medical centre where he was examined by medical staff and released. In this world, there is the typical middle-class nuclear family. American Behavioral Scientist 63 10 However, no details about the ongoing investigation were ever revealed. Riot police, as well as several water cannons one of which broke down , were employed to disperse the rally. If you call it interference, then those who do not recognize the election also interfere in the affairs of Belarus. Nevertheless, this interpretation uncovers aspects that are more or less taken for granted, not problematised or criticised in the discussions — in a nutshell: the implicit norms. American Journal of Political Science 57 4 Nordas, R. After police tried to detain her, protesters shouted "Nina! More communicative and managerial approaches to protest policing since the eighties as well as more selective policing styles relying on the attempt of differentiation between peaceful and non-peaceful can be traced back to this ruling. Young women dressed in white-and-red or carrying white- and-red umbrellas marched along Independence Avenue. In such a case, who is the hostile audience and who is the speaker? People were also seen bringing flowers to the memorial again. As the protests swept across Belarus following the election results, the primary opposition candidate Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya published a video saying that she left Belarus for Lithuania. First Amendment values remain central to how communities grapple with public protest. P: […] which then, of course, depending on the topic of the demonstration , can, of course, in some circumstances, be more or less problematic. Bibliography pp. Not every instance of contentious mobilization has a discernible generational element, neither does youth shape the experiences of all forms of collective mobilization. Soule, H. A friend says that Krivtsov phoned him on 10 August, stating that he was in Minsk and had nearly been arrested by riot police. In each case, an individual spoke, an audience reacted or threatened to react, a prosecutor charged a crime, and the defendant was convicted. It would certainly be good to hear if future police officers were familiarised more thoroughly with the colourful world of alternative culture, dissidence and social movements. Mobile internet was cut off at around London: Palgrave Macmillan. They streamed a farewell ceremony for the murdered during a peaceful protest on 10 August. His colleagues rose to the surface and began a rally in his support, holding a poster saying "We will not allow the regime to revive fascism ". According to Wehr , young police officers showed a higher tendency to think in categories of order and norm as well as having a stronger preference for job and security as opposed to personal development when compared with other people of their age. First Amendment doctrine cannot fully resolve the issues at stake. Furthermore, formal 3 and informal 4 categorisations of protesters as well as the perception of indications of threat in policing practice 5 are examined. Unregistered candidate Valery Tsepkalo created a non-profit organization "Belarus of the future". Still, the careful observation of the legacies of austerity makes a compelling case for the intertwining of these three ideas, as austerity has sparked new forms of mobilization with an undisputed generational profile, which are also becoming sites for expanding practices of repression. Behrendes notes that police are often guided by worst case scenarios. Near the Red Church , security forces detained three girls who were sitting and holding blank sheets of A4 white or red paper. According to preliminary information, he died because of waiting in a security forces detainee van for many hours in hot weather. Focusing on Italy, France, Germany, Great Britain, Switzerland, Spain, the United States, and South Africa, the contributors look at cultures and political power to examine the methods and the consequences of policing protest. Terminiello v. Whatever the failings of city government and state and local law enforcement on August 12 in Charlottesville—and those failings were many—one has to acknowledge the magnitude of the challenge cities can face. On 24 August, presidium members of the Coordination Council, Sergei Dylevsky and Olga Kovalkova were detained by the security services whilst attempting to support striking workers at the Minsk Tractor Works factory. An emergency response plan was introduced at the mine. Female protestors being arrested in Minsk. Herbert Reiter is a researcher in history at the University of Halle in Germany. See , e. Part II. Policing Protest The Control of Mass Demonstrations in Western Democracies 1st edition Writer Nevertheless, it cannot be denied that this conflict, which equally reveals itself on a cultural level here, is of a structural nature. Mueller eds. October Separately, NEXTA released seven entries contained personal information, including addresses and phone numbers, belonging to members of the special anti-terror unit of the interior ministry. Telegram channel NEXTA, used by the opposition, published messages alleging violence by law enforcement officers, which were not always accompanied by video or photo confirmation. His colleagues rose to the surface and began a rally in his support, holding a poster saying "We will not allow the regime to revive fascism ". Table of Contents. London: Palgrave Macmillan. Over Belarusian sportsmen and sportswomen, sports journalists and employees of the sports sphere Yelena Leuchanka , Nikolai Kozeko , Volha Mazuronak , Maryna Arzamasova , Aliaksandra Ramanouskaya , Stepan Popov , and many others signed an open letter to Alexander Lukashenko, where, among other things, demanded that the last presidential election be invalidated, all the persons detained during the protests be released, all the political prisoners be released and rehabilitated, and those responsible of the beatings and "bestial abuses" of the detainees be identified and punished. Behr, Rafael , Cop culture — der Alltag des Gewaltmonopols. Meanwhile, a broadcast by the state TV showed empty news desks as TV presenters had walked out on strike, [] [] [] and members of the European Parliament issued a joint statement stating that they did not recognise Alexander Lukashenko as the president of Belarus and considered him a persona non grata in the European Union. On 7 October, a traditional women's protest action took place, this time under the name "We are walking! Examples of contentious mobilizations led by young people in a context of austerity abound: from the Arab Spring to Indignados in Spain, from the mobilizations for global justice to Nuit Debout in France, a new generation has joined contentious politics, contributing to the development of creative ideas for a more just and inclusive society della Porta della Porta, D. Many young people across Western countries feel aggrieved, and their discontent regarding their economic circumstances, prospects, and the political status quo has contributed to increase outrage. The police perspective has established social movements with clear structures and responsibilities as having an interest in peaceful protest. Quantitatively speaking, neutral labels and those indicating distance are predominant, however, terms indicating an adversarial or hostile relation were used in four group discussions and two interviews and remained uncontested therein. Part I. Reportedly, in the aftermath, Kolesnikova was taken to a border troop installation in Mozyr. Referendums from Below: Social movements and direct democracy in the neoliberal crisis. The way in which police handle political demonstrations is always potentially controversial. The regularly mentioned police-internal collective symbols such as the Confederation of German Trade Unions on the one hand and autonomists or the black bloc on the other symbolise this abstraction and the related binary distinction between legitimate and illegitimate protest actors. The wire broke and wrapped around a bystanding woman. And as a moral enterprise Winter, 15 , police in these situations quite naturally also act on the basis of their own norms. In a democracy, I think, there are other ways to find a solution […] instead of taking to the streets with a hundred or two hundred people who carry banners, ninety percent of which may be misspelt on top of that. Policing Protest The Control of Mass Demonstrations in Western Democracies 1st edition Reviews This position is further reinforced by the frequent public criticism that police officers are confronted with and that they perceive as generally unjustified