An anthropological analysis of how our political and legal systems criminalise protesters

This is an open access book. The start of the 21st century has seen the world shaken by protests, from the Arab Spring to the Yellow Vests, from the Occupy move

This book presents a radical, but compelling, argument that liberal democracies must be able accommodate violent protest. We often think of violent protest as b

How does protest become criminalised? Applying an anthropological perspective to political and legal conflicts, Carolijn Terwindt urges us to critically questio

Over the past decade, international human rights organizations and think tanks have expressed a growing concern that the space of civil society organizations ar