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Criminalizing Dissent

- The Liberal State and the Problem of Legitimacy
Af: Rob Watts Engelsk Paperback

Criminalizing Dissent

- The Liberal State and the Problem of Legitimacy
Af: Rob Watts Engelsk Paperback
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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, selective refusal by Israeli soldiers, urban squatters, democratic education and violence by anti-Apartheid activists, the book highlights the many forms dissent takes along with the many ways liberal-democratic states criminalize it. The book highlights the mix of fear and delusion in play when states privilege security to protect an imagined ‘political order’ from difference and disagreement.



The book makes a major contribution to political theory, legal studies and sociology. Linking legal, political and normative studies in new ways, Watts shows that ultimately liberal-democracies rely more on sovereignty and the capacity for coercion and declarations of legal ‘states of exception’ than on liberal-democratic principles. In a time marked by a deepening crisis of democracy, the book argues dissent is increasingly valuable.

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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, selective refusal by Israeli soldiers, urban squatters, democratic education and violence by anti-Apartheid activists, the book highlights the many forms dissent takes along with the many ways liberal-democratic states criminalize it. The book highlights the mix of fear and delusion in play when states privilege security to protect an imagined ‘political order’ from difference and disagreement.



The book makes a major contribution to political theory, legal studies and sociology. Linking legal, political and normative studies in new ways, Watts shows that ultimately liberal-democracies rely more on sovereignty and the capacity for coercion and declarations of legal ‘states of exception’ than on liberal-democratic principles. In a time marked by a deepening crisis of democracy, the book argues dissent is increasingly valuable.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 302
ISBN-13: 9780367670610
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0367670615
Udg. Dato: 18 dec 2020
Længde: 19mm
Bredde: 155mm
Højde: 232mm
Forlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Oplagsdato: 18 dec 2020
Forfatter(e): Rob Watts
Forfatter(e) Rob Watts


Kategori Samfunds- & politisk filosofi


ISBN-13 9780367670610


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 302


Udgave


Længde 19mm


Bredde 155mm


Højde 232mm


Udg. Dato 18 dec 2020


Oplagsdato 18 dec 2020


Forlag Taylor & Francis Ltd

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