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Brian Doherty's Outputs (32)

Defending the Integrity Principle: Necessity, Remorse and Moral Consistency in the Protest Trial (2025)
Journal Article
Cammiss, S., Hayes, G., & Doherty, B. (in press). Defending the Integrity Principle: Necessity, Remorse and Moral Consistency in the Protest Trial. Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Article gqaf003. https://doi.org/10.1093/ojls/gqaf003

The protest trial has distinctive features and should be governed by what we term the ‘integrity principle’: it should respect the moral consistency of the defendant; justifications, not excuses, should be privileged; and the ‘remorse principle’ shou... Read More about Defending the Integrity Principle: Necessity, Remorse and Moral Consistency in the Protest Trial.

Extinction Rebellion’s disobedient environmental citizenism (2024)
Journal Article
Hayes, G., Cammiss, S., Doherty, B., & Saunders, C. (in press). Extinction Rebellion’s disobedient environmental citizenism. Environmental Politics, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2024.2406183

We examine the public protest of Extinction Rebellion (XR) in the UK as a specific political practice. We do so through our observation of the plea hearings of activists charged with public order offences during the April 2019 London ‘Rebellion’, foc... Read More about Extinction Rebellion’s disobedient environmental citizenism.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.