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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 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.