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Rob Watts

Criminalizing Dissent

The Liberal State and the Problem of Legitimacy

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While liberal-democratic states like America, Britain and Australia claim to value freedom of expression and the right to dissent, they have always actually criminalized dissent. This disposition has worsened since 9/11 and the 2008 Great Recession. This ground-breaking study shows that just as dissent involves far more than protest marches, so too liberal-democratic states have expanded the criminalization of dissent. Drawing on political and social theorists like Arendt, Bourdieu and Isin, the book offers a new way of thinking about politics, dissent and its criminalization relationally. Using case studies like the Occupy movement, selectiv… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-1-351-03956-7
  • EAN: 9781351039567
  • Produktnummer: 31314718
  • Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
  • Seitenangabe: 336 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 2'742 KB
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage
  • Abbildungen: 1 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, 1 schwarz-weiße Zeichnungen, 2 schwarz-weiße Tabellen

Über den Autor


Rob Watts is currently a professor of Social Policy at RMIT University where he teaches politics, criminology, policy studies and applied human rights. He was a founding member of the Greens Party in Victoria, and established the Australian Center for Human Rights Education at RMIT in 2008. His recent books include States of Violence and the Civilising Process (2016), Public Universities, Managerialism and the Value of the University (2017) and The Precarious Generation: A Political Economy of Young People (2018, co-authored).

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