Suchergebnisse

Global vigilantes: perspectives on justice and violence / Atreyee Sen, David Pratten -- Spectacle in the desert: the minueteman project on the US-Mexico border / Leo R. Chavez -- Policing Nkomazi: crime, Masculinity and generational conflicts / Steffen Jensen -- Everyday and extraordinary violence: women vigilantes and raw justice in the Bombay slums / Altreyee Sen -- 'Policing' through violence: fear, vigilantism and the politics of Islam in northern Nigeria / Conerly Casey -- Fluctuating personhood: vigilantism and citizenship in Port Elizabeth's townships / Lars Buur -- Law and disorder in the Palestinian West Bank: the execution of suspected collaborators under Israeli occupation / Tobias Kelly -- Singing thieves: history and practice in Nigerian popular justice in Nigerian popular justice / David Pratten -- 'You know America has drive by shootings? In Creggan, we have drive by beatings.' Continuing intracommunity vigilantism in urban Northern Ireland / Rosellen Roche -- Flexible justice: neoliberal violence and 'self-help' security in Bolivia / Daniel M. Goldstein -- Private security and public insecurity: outsourced vigilantism in modern Russia / Mark Galeotti -- Markets of protection: the Maoist Communist Centre and the state in Jharkhand, India / Alpa Shah -- Vigillantism, transition and legitimacy: informal policing in Northern Ireland / Neil Jarman -- When vigilantes turn bad: gangs, violence, and social change in urban Nicaragua / Dennis Rodgers -- Lynching and post-war complexities in Guatemala / Jannifer Burrell, Gavin Weston -- State vigilantes and political community on the margins in post-war Mozambique / Helene Maria Kyed -- Some thoughts on the comparative study of vigilantism / Ray Abrahams

A vigilant subject foregrounds the terrorist event, working immanently to its development and disrupting its realisation. Individuals are tasked with spotting the antecedents of future attacks in the present so as to ward off catastrophe and with being mindful of processes of radicalisation so as to counsel against extremism. A vigilant subject monitors others – as much as himself or herself – according to proscribed conduct, while at the same time he or she co-evolves with uncertainty in order to prevent emergent threats: be they those yet to materialise (signs of an attack) or yet to be even thought of (signs of radicalisation). This vigilant subject is explored through two cases: the British Transport Police campaign to make commuters aware of, and report, terror-related activity and the Prevent duty that asks university staff to limit students being drawn into terrorism.

"Debemos estar siempre vigilantes para poner freno a quienes pretendan controlar las manifestaciones de ideas y opiniones que detestemos o que consideremos que conducen a la muerte salvo que sea necesario controlarlas para así salvar a la nación…" Hace más de cien años que se escribieron estas famosas palabras por parte del juez Holmes en su voto particular en el asunto Abrams v. United States, de 10 de noviembre de 1919. Las palabras de Holmes, en España deben ser especialmente recordadas en los momentos actuales porque, pese a la consolidación del Estado social y democrático de Derecho y la proclamación de la libertad, la igualdad, la justicia y el pluralismo político como valores superiores de nuestro ordenamiento (art. 1.1 CE), perviven amenazas reales a la libertad de expresión y no parece descartable, a la vista de no pocas resoluciones judiciales y de algunas reformas legislativas, que no es descartable vayan a más.

"This ground-breaking collection of essays examines the scope and consequences of digital vigilantism – a phenomenon emerging on a global scale, which sees digital audiences using social platforms to shape social and political life. Longstanding forms of moral scrutiny and justice seeking are disseminated through our contemporary media landscape, and researchers are increasingly recognising the significance of societal impacts effected by digital media.

The authors engage with a range of cross-disciplinary perspectives in order to explore the actions of a vigilant digital audience – denunciation, shaming, doxing – and to consider the role of the press and other public figures in supporting or contesting these activities. In turn, the volume illuminates several tensions underlying these justice seeking activities – from their capacity to reproduce categorical forms of discrimination, to the diverse motivations of the wider audiences who participate in vigilant denunciations.

This timely volume presents thoughtful case studies drawn both from high-profile Anglo-American contexts, and from developments in regions that have received less coverage in English-language scholarship. It is distinctive in its focus on the contested boundary between policing and entertainment, and on the various contexts in which the desire to seek retribution converges with the desire to consume entertainment.

Introducing Vigilant Audiences will be of great value to researchers and students of sociology, politics, criminology, critical security studies, and media and communication. It will be of further interest to those who wish to understand recent cases of citizen-led justice seeking in their global context."