TY - JOUR
T1 - Layers of Political Repression
T2 - Integrating Research on Social Movement Repression
AU - Earl, Jennifer
AU - Braithwaite, Jessica Maves
N1 - Funding Information:
J.M.B. has received grant funding from the National Science Foundation and the US Institute of Peace within the past three years.
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PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Social movements are critical sources of change in both democratic and undemocratic contexts, leading authorities and others to attempt to prevent, constrain, or otherwise control them. In this review, we argue that research relevant to a comprehensive understanding of social movement repression is scattered across disciplines, including sociology, political science, law and society, and area studies, with each discipline focusing on different aspects. We introduce a layered framework that positions social movement repression within a larger field of political repression, connecting these unproductively siloed areas. This provides diverse researchers a map for locating one another and situating their work in relation to other disciplines. It also highlights the importance of sociolegal concepts and expertise (i.e., on understanding how illegality is defined, how legal systems may be used to suppress minoritized groups, diverse motivations for legal action) to deepening the study of political repression generally and social movement repression specifically.
AB - Social movements are critical sources of change in both democratic and undemocratic contexts, leading authorities and others to attempt to prevent, constrain, or otherwise control them. In this review, we argue that research relevant to a comprehensive understanding of social movement repression is scattered across disciplines, including sociology, political science, law and society, and area studies, with each discipline focusing on different aspects. We introduce a layered framework that positions social movement repression within a larger field of political repression, connecting these unproductively siloed areas. This provides diverse researchers a map for locating one another and situating their work in relation to other disciplines. It also highlights the importance of sociolegal concepts and expertise (i.e., on understanding how illegality is defined, how legal systems may be used to suppress minoritized groups, diverse motivations for legal action) to deepening the study of political repression generally and social movement repression specifically.
KW - human rights
KW - nonviolent resistance
KW - peace science
KW - physical integrity rights violations
KW - repression
KW - security studies
KW - social movements
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U2 - 10.1146/annurev-lawsocsci-050520-092713
DO - 10.1146/annurev-lawsocsci-050520-092713
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85142266099
SN - 1550-3585
VL - 18
SP - 227
EP - 248
JO - Annual Review of Law and Social Science
JF - Annual Review of Law and Social Science
ER -