Research Event: Policing Protest Event
- Time:
- 14:00 - 15:00
- Date:
- 26 May 2021
- Venue:
- Online (via Microsoft Teams)
For more information regarding this event, please email Clodagh Owens at C.Owens@soton.ac.uk .
Event details
You are warmly invited to an inter-disciplinary panel event organised by the History Department on the theme of 'Policing Protest'. Each panellist will give a brief talk, with time for questions and discussion afterwards. The event brings together specialists in History, Sociology and Criminology from across the University of Southampton. All welcome.
Description of talk
In any polity, effective governance requires setting and protecting the boundaries of the permissible. In most societies, this process implicates a whole host of civil actors including those with the authority to shape norms, whether lawyers, judges and armed forces or any other group. For this system to work, however, the boundaries being policed need to be recognised as such in the wider culture. In what instances might their transgression be accepted? How far might protest that flouts such norms be deemed legitimate? And how much dissent ought to be tolerated against state authority itself? The recent Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (March 2021) has brought such questions into sharp relief and reminded us of their high stakes. This event brings together a group of scholars whose diverse research interests mean they are well placed to offer historical, sociological and criminological perspectives on the expression and management of dissent.
Speaker Information
Professor Silke Roth (Sociology) will speak about the impact of repression on social movements and offer intersectional perspectives on protest participation, drawing on her recent research.
Dr Chris Hamerton (Deputy Director, Institute of Criminal Justice Research, SSPC) will speak on interpreting the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill and the policing of protest in the era of popular punitiveness, drawing on his forthcoming monograph.
Dr David Cox (History) is a specialist in the history of racism in the United States and will speak about collusion between the authorities and urban race rioters in the late nineteenth century.
Dr George Gilbert (History) works on Russian history and will speak on the policing of protest in the Siberian city of Tomsk in the revolutionary year of 1905.
This panel event will take place via Microsoft Teams. Please ensure you book a place to receive the meeting link. The deadline for bookings is 1pm on 26/03/21.
For more information regarding this event, please email Clodagh Owens at C.Owens@soton.ac.uk