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The Criminalization of Political Dissent
The Criminalization of Political Dissent
Tuesday, 17 July 2018: 08:30-10:20
Location: 707 (MTCC SOUTH BUILDING)
RC18 Political Sociology (host committee) Language: English
This panel explores the way governments from across the political spectrum intensified their efforts to criminalize traditional and new forms of digital political dissent. Contributions are welcome from the social sciences, law and legal studies, media studies and philosophy to document what happens when governments choose to regard activists campaigning for increased government transparency and accountability, environmental sustainability, social justice, human rights and pro-democracy as engaging in illegal activities. Contributors are invited to inquire into the legal, political and ethical implications when governments engage in mass electronic and digital surveillance, outlaw freedom of movement real and virtual public assembly and prosecute digital activists.
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