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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.
Session Organizers:
Judith BESSANT, RMIT University, Australia and Rob WATTS, RMIT University, Australia
Chair:
Judith BESSANT, RMIT University, Australia
Oral Presentations
The Criminalisation of Youth-Led Political Dissent in Contemporary Britain.
Sarah PICKARD, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3, France
Political Dissent in Society
Vivek KHANNA, UCBS,HPU, India
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