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Necessity, Non-Violent Direct Activism, and the Stansted 15: Reasserting ‘Hoffmann's Bargain’ (2021)
Journal Article
Doherty. (2021). Necessity, Non-Violent Direct Activism, and the Stansted 15: Reasserting ‘Hoffmann's Bargain’. Modern Law Review, https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2230.12715

In Thacker and ors the Court of Appeal overturned the convictions of the ‘Stansted 15’ due to a misdirection on the substantive offence. However, the court rejected their necessity defence, following Jones, as their actions were political, outweighin... Read More about Necessity, Non-Violent Direct Activism, and the Stansted 15: Reasserting ‘Hoffmann's Bargain’.

Disciplinary Power and Impression Management in the Trials of the Stansted 15 (2020)
Journal Article
Doherty. (2020). Disciplinary Power and Impression Management in the Trials of the Stansted 15. Sociology, 561-581. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038520954318

We bring Foucauldian and Goffmanian frameworks into dialogue to show how repressive and disciplinary power operate in the criminal trials of social movement activists. We do so through an ethnographic account of the trials on terrorism-related charge... Read More about Disciplinary Power and Impression Management in the Trials of the Stansted 15.

A New Climate Movement? Extinction Rebellion’s Activists in Profile. CUSP Working Paper No 25. (2020)
Journal Article
Doherty. (2020). A New Climate Movement? Extinction Rebellion’s Activists in Profile. CUSP Working Paper No 25

Compiled by academics at three UK universities, this report presents a profile of participants in Extinction Rebellion’s (XR) mass civil disobedience actions in London in April and October 2019. The report is compiled from three datasets: a protest s... Read More about A New Climate Movement? Extinction Rebellion’s Activists in Profile. CUSP Working Paper No 25..

What hampers ‘political’ action in environmental alternative action organizations? Exploring the scope for strategic agency under post-political conditions (2019)
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Doherty, & Catney. (2019). What hampers ‘political’ action in environmental alternative action organizations? Exploring the scope for strategic agency under post-political conditions. Social Movement Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/14742837.2019.1708311

The proliferation of environmental alternative action organization (EAAOs) is a defining feature of present-day environmentalism. The literature on sustainable materialism has celebrated this as an appropriate, effective, and above all, political str... Read More about What hampers ‘political’ action in environmental alternative action organizations? Exploring the scope for strategic agency under post-political conditions.

Friends of the Earth International: Agonistic Politics, Modus vivendi and Political Change (2018)
Journal Article
Doherty, B., & Doyle, T. (2018). Friends of the Earth International: Agonistic Politics, Modus vivendi and Political Change. Environmental Politics, 27(6), 1057-1078. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2018.1462577

Following criticism from some of its national member organisations that it marginalised Southern agendas, Friends of the Earth International engaged in heated debates in the 2000s which aimed to address its internal political differences. FoEI define... Read More about Friends of the Earth International: Agonistic Politics, Modus vivendi and Political Change.

Having Your Day in Court: Judicial Opportunity and Tactical Choice in Anti-GMO Campaigns in France and the United Kingdom (2014)
Journal Article
Doherty, B., & Hayes, G. (2014). Having Your Day in Court: Judicial Opportunity and Tactical Choice in Anti-GMO Campaigns in France and the United Kingdom. Comparative Political Studies, 47(1), 3 -29. https://doi.org/10.1177/0010414012439184

Investigating the recent direct action campaigns against genetically modified crops in France and the United Kingdom, the authors set out to understand how contrasting judicial systems and cultures affect the way that activists choose to commit osten... Read More about Having Your Day in Court: Judicial Opportunity and Tactical Choice in Anti-GMO Campaigns in France and the United Kingdom.

Environmental direct action in Manchester, Oxford and North Wales: a protest event analysis (2007)
Journal Article
Doherty. (2007). Environmental direct action in Manchester, Oxford and North Wales: a protest event analysis. Environmental Politics, 805 -825. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644010701634182

Direct action campaigns against new roads in the UK received much attention, but campaign groups were locally organised and little is known about how they worked. Protests by three local environmental direct action groups in the years 1992-2001 are e... Read More about Environmental direct action in Manchester, Oxford and North Wales: a protest event analysis.

Friends of the Earth International: negotiating a transnational identity (2007)
Journal Article
Doherty. (2007). Friends of the Earth International: negotiating a transnational identity. Environmental Politics, 860 -880. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644010600937306

The aim of this article is to assess the relationships between majority (South) and minority (North) world environmental groups by focusing on one of the largest transnational environmental organisations: Friends of the Earth International (FoEI):1... Read More about Friends of the Earth International: negotiating a transnational identity.

Green public spheres and the green governance state: the politics of emancipation and ecological conditionality (2007)
Journal Article
Doherty. (2007). Green public spheres and the green governance state: the politics of emancipation and ecological conditionality. Environmental Politics, 881 -892. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644010600937504

A consistent thread weaves through all the articles in this edition. Each author, in some fashion, reflects upon the dual concepts of a ‘global green public sphere’ and the ‘global governance state’, as they intersect with the politics of environment... Read More about Green public spheres and the green governance state: the politics of emancipation and ecological conditionality.

Beyond borders: Transnational politics, social movements and modern environmentalisms (2006)
Journal Article
Doherty. (2006). Beyond borders: Transnational politics, social movements and modern environmentalisms. Environmental Politics, 697 -712. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644010600937132

This introduction considers three themes that recur across the various contributions to this collection. The first is the nature of borders and how these have been affected by the increase in transnational collective action and the growth in the powe... Read More about Beyond borders: Transnational politics, social movements and modern environmentalisms.

Covert repertoires: ecotage in the UK (2004)
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Doherty. (2004). Covert repertoires: ecotage in the UK. Social Movement Studies, 199 - 220. https://doi.org/10.1080/1474283042000266128

Ecological sabotage (ecotage) has been a feature of the more radical parts of the environmental movement in the Western world for several decades. While it may be perceived as being the preserve of underground cells of 'eco-terrorists', in the UK tho... Read More about Covert repertoires: ecotage in the UK.

Explaining the fuel protests (2003)
Journal Article
Doherty. (2003). Explaining the fuel protests. British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 1 -23. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-856X.00093

We describe and analyse the fuel protests in the UK in September and November 2000. We draw on theories of social movements to explain the success of the first of these protests and the failure of the second. We show how the loose, network forms of o... Read More about Explaining the fuel protests.