All Outputs (7)

Assemblies and the Courts (2024)
Book Chapter
Cammiss, S., Doherty, B., & Hayes, G. (2024). Assemblies and the Courts. In The Oxford Handbook of Peaceful Assembly. Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197674871.013.26

To what extent is the protest trial a threat or an opportunity to protesters? This chapter argues that it is both. Trials potentially provide a site of resistance and the means for ongoing struggle and contestation, while simultaneously threatening t... Read More about Assemblies and the Courts.

Global Climate Strike Protesters and Media Coverage of the Protests in Truro and Manchester (2021)
Book Chapter
Doherty. (2021). Global Climate Strike Protesters and Media Coverage of the Protests in Truro and Manchester. In When Students Protest: Universities in the Global North

The Global Climate Strike (GCS) movement is by far the largest and most international youth protest movement to date. Drawing on surveys of UK protesters in two demonstrations, in semi-rural Truro in Cornwall and urban Manchester on 15 March 2019 thi... Read More about Global Climate Strike Protesters and Media Coverage of the Protests in Truro and Manchester.

Tactics and Strategic Action (2018)
Book Chapter
Doherty. (2018). Tactics and Strategic Action. In The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Social Movements, 2nd edition (271 -288)

We discuss ongoing debates over tactical choice and change, from Tilly's action repertoires model and protest event analysis to more recent actor-centred approaches stressing the importance of identity and taste. We argue that while contentious polit... Read More about Tactics and Strategic Action.

Social Movement Studies in Britain: No Longer the Poor Relation? (2016)
Book Chapter
Doherty. (2016). Social Movement Studies in Britain: No Longer the Poor Relation?. In Social Movement Studies in Europe: The State of the Art (191-213)

The Courts: Criminal Trials as Strategic Arenas (2015)
Book Chapter
Doherty. (2015). The Courts: Criminal Trials as Strategic Arenas. In Breaking Down the State: Protesters Engaged (27 - 51)

In this chapter we analyze cases where social movement activists are prosecuted in the courts for protest actions. The courthouse is a significant arena for social movement strategy, a symbolic site for the arbitration of collective disputes, the leg... Read More about The Courts: Criminal Trials as Strategic Arenas.

Chapitre 10. A Tale of Two Movements (2009)
Book Chapter
Doherty, B., & Hayes, G. (2009). Chapitre 10. A Tale of Two Movements. . Presses universitaires du Septentrion. https://doi.org/10.4000/books.septentrion.15839

GREEN PARTIES, NONVIOLENCE AND POLITICAL OBLIGATION (1996)
Book Chapter
Doherty, B. (1996). GREEN PARTIES, NONVIOLENCE AND POLITICAL OBLIGATION. . Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203449554_chapter_2

The green movement has posed some tough questions for traditional justifications of democracy. Should the natural world have rights? Can we take account of the interests of future generations? But questions have also been asked of the greens. Could t... Read More about GREEN PARTIES, NONVIOLENCE AND POLITICAL OBLIGATION.