All Outputs (30)

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.

We attended the trial of the Colston four: here’s why their acquittal should be celebrated (2022)
Digital Artefact
Hayes, G., Doherty, B., & Cammiss, S. (2022). We attended the trial of the Colston four: here’s why their acquittal should be celebrated. [Blog Style Article]

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’.

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.

The Stansted 15 appeal: a hollow victory for the right to protest? (2021)
Digital Artefact
Doherty, B. (2021). The Stansted 15 appeal: a hollow victory for the right to protest?. [Blog Style Article]

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)
Journal Article
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.

What Now for Extinction Rebellion? (2019)
Digital Artefact
Doherty, B., & Hayes, G. (2019). What Now for Extinction Rebellion?. [Blog style article]

Protest for a future: Composition, mobilization and motives of the participants in Fridays For Future climate protests on 15 March, 2019 in 13 European cities (2019)
Book
Doherty. (2019). Protest for a future: Composition, mobilization and motives of the participants in Fridays For Future climate protests on 15 March, 2019 in 13 European cities

Studies of the participants in "Fridays For Future" climate protests on 15 March, 2019 in 13 European cities.

Treating the Stansted 15 as Terrorists is Part of a Worrying Trend (2019)
Digital Artefact
HEYES, G., DOHERTY, B., & CAMMISS, S. (2019). Treating the Stansted 15 as Terrorists is Part of a Worrying Trend. [Blog]

The use of anti-terror laws to convict the Stansted 15 will chill public dissent (2018)
Digital Artefact
Doherty, B., Cammiss, S., & Hayes, G. (2018). The use of anti-terror laws to convict the Stansted 15 will chill public dissent. [Web article]

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.

The 'new' climate politics of Extinction Rebellion? (2018)
Journal Article
Doherty. (2018). The 'new' climate politics of Extinction Rebellion?

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.

Occupy! A global movement (2016)
Book
Pickerill, J., Krinsky, J., Hayes, G., Gillan, K., & Doherty, B. (Eds.). Occupy! A global movement. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315742502

This book is an urgent and compelling account of the Occupy movements: from the M15 movement in Spain, to the wave of Occupations flooding across cities in American, Europe and Australia, to the harsh reality of evictions as corporations and governme... Read More about Occupy! A global movement.

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.

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.

Environmentalism, Resistance and Solidarity: The Politics of Friends of the Earth International (2013)
Book
Doherty, B., & Doyle, T. (2013). Environmentalism, Resistance and Solidarity: The Politics of Friends of the Earth International. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137316714

Drawing from a rich mix of survey data, interviews, and access to internal meetings, Brian Doherty and Timothy Doyle show how FoEI has developed a distinctive environmentalism, which allows for the differences in context between regions and across th... Read More about Environmentalism, Resistance and Solidarity: The Politics of Friends of the Earth International.