When Protest Becomes Crime

Carolijn Terwindt

Description

How does protest become criminalised? Applying an anthropological perspective to political and legal conflicts, Carolijn Terwindt urges us to critically question the underlying interests and logic of prosecuting protesters.



The book draws upon ethnographic research in Chile, Spain, and the United States to trace prosecutorial narratives in three protracted contentious episodes in liberal democracies. Terwindt examines the conflict between Chilean landowners and the indigenous Mapuche people, the Spanish state and the Basque independence movement, and the United States' criminalisation of 'eco-terrorists.' Exploring how patterns and mechanisms of prosecutorial narrative emerge through distinct political, social and democratic contexts, Terwindt shines a light on how prosecutorial narratives in each episode changed significantly over time.



Challenging the law and justice system and warning against relying on criminal law to deal with socio-political conflicts, Terwindt's observations have implications for a wide range of actors and constituencies, including social movement activists, scholars, and prosecutors.

Series Preface

Preface

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

1. Introduction

PART I: LAW, POLITICS AND LEGITIMACY IN LIBERAL DEMOCRACIES

2. When Groups Take Justice into Their Own Hands

3. The Prosecutorial Narrative and the Double Bind of Liberal Legalism

4. Mobilizing the Power of Victimhood

5. Challenging the State’s Crime Definition

PART II: WHEN PROSECUTORS RESPOND: NARRATIVES IN ACTION

ETA cases in Spain

6. Casting the Net Wider by Calling the Armed Group a Network 112

7. Narrating Praise for ETA Prisoners as Humiliation of Victims

“Mapuche conflict” cases in Chile

8. Vacillating between Criminalization and Negotiation

9. Responding to Allegations of Racism and Repression against the Mapuche People

“Eco-terrorism” cases in the United States

10. Shifting from Reactive to Proactive Prosecutions

11. Drawing a Boundary between Raising Awareness and Intimidation

12. Conclusion: The Prosecutor’s Contested Claim to Criminal Justice

References

Interviews

Trial Transcripts

Index

Sujets

• Political Advocacy
• Political Process
• Human Rights
• Political Science
• Legal History
• Criminal Law
• Constitutional
• Civil Rights
• Advocacy group
• Animal Liberation Front
• 21st century
• Eric McDavid
• Basque Country
• Privacy law
• Mapuche
• General officer
• Civil and political rights
• Spain
• Chile
• LAW
• Spain (groupe)
• General
• Front de libération des animaux
• Earth Liberation Front
• Mapuches
• Chili

Informations

• Publié par: Pluto Press
• Date de parution: 20 décembre 2019
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781786806086
• Langue: English

Extrait

When Protest Becomes Crime

Anthropology, Culture and Society

Series Editors: Jamie Cross, University of Edinburgh, Christina Garsten, Stockholm University and Joshua O. Reno, Binghamton University

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