Archived seminar
28 February 2017: Civil Society Resistance to State Violence and Corruption
Professor Penny Green, School of Law from Queen Mary University London
At 18:00 in LTB 5.
Abstract:
This paper explores the centrality of civil society resistance in exposing, defining and ultimately challenging state crime, not only in states where the rule of law is absent or precarious, but also in states where there is a normative commitment to the rule of law. The paper articulates a way of thinking criminologically about the state in which the concept of civil society assumes central stage, necessarily replacing or usurping criminal justice and legal frameworks of definition and redress. It will draw on extensive fieldwork in Turkey, Tunisia and Burma to explore some of the ways in which civil society resistance emerges, survives and sometimes ‘flourishes’ under conditions of dictatorship, state violence and repression. Professor Green is Professor of Law and Globalisation at Queen Mary University of London.
Professor Green has published extensively on state crime theory (including her monograph with Tony Ward, State Crime: Governments, Violence and Corruption), state violence, Turkish criminal justice and politics, ‘natural’ disasters, transnational crime, mass forced evictions/displacement and resistance to state violence. She has a long track record of researching in hostile environments and has conducted fieldwork in the UK, Turkey, Kurdistan, Palestine/Israel, Tunisia and Myanmar. Professor Green is Founder and Director of the award winning International State Crime Initiative (ISCI) - a multi-disciplinary international initiative to collate, analyse and disseminate research-based knowledge about criminal state practices and resistance to them.
Please see PDF for further information: CivilSociety.pdf