All Outputs (27)

Necessity, Non-Violent Direct Activism, and the Stansted 15: Reasserting ‘Hoffmann's Bargain’ (2021)
Journal Article

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

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.

Disciplinary Power and Impression Management in the Trials of the Stansted 15 (2020)
Journal Article

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

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

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

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

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

The use of anti-terror laws to convict the Stansted 15 will chill public dissent (2018)
Digital Artefact

Tactics and Strategic Action (2018)
Book Chapter

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

Friends of the Earth International: Agonistic Politics, Modus vivendi and Political Change (2018)
Journal Article

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

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

The Courts: Criminal Trials as Strategic Arenas (2015)
Book Chapter

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

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

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.

Chapitre 10. A Tale of Two Movements (2009)
Book Chapter

Environmental direct action in Manchester, Oxford and North Wales: a protest event analysis (2007)
Journal Article

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

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.