« Riots » and mobilizations against violent police deviances : an international comparative perspective
21. Juni | 09:00
Since the 1960-70s, the US and Western Europe appear to have been subjected to a relatively uninterrupted series of urban rebellions. Most sociologists and political scientists agree that “riots” often start as a reaction to “police violence”, as a sign of the contentious relationship between the police and Black Peoples, post-colonial immigrants' children, and working classes. Non-violent collective action against “police violence” may additionally emerge during or after the “riots” in the form of protests, sit-ins, creation of associations, legal or community actions. Nevertheless, few researchers take an interest in question of mobilizations against police deviances. This workshop aims at bridging this gap by proposing first to focus on this kind of contentious relationships. We wish to analyze "riots" as forms of mobilization against "police violence". Secondly, we would like to introduce a comparative perspective of the various forms of “riots”, rebellions and uprisings in different configurations across the world. We thus intend to contribute to the understanding of the similarity or diversity of such movements, including their conditions of possibility. Finally, some papers focus on the effects of police deviances and state repression on the people and their mobilizations. Here, our objective consists in studying how police deviance might push people to become activists, and how it becomes a more political issue.
This workshop comes out of a panel originally planned for the 24th IPSA’s congress, which was moved from Istanbul to Poznan. After the release of the “We will not be party to this crime” petition launched by the Academics for Peace initiative on January 10th 2016, Turkish state authorities and pro-government media have explicitly targeted the signatories. The IPSA executive committee decided to move the congress from Istanbul because “they cannot guarantee the safety of all participants and provide an environment favourable to the exchange of intellectual ideas”. They did not however took an explicit and clear position against the persecution of academics in Turkey. Academics for Peace decided to boycott the congress, in order to protest against IPSA’s unwillingness to take a firm and unambiguous stance against the Turkish state authorities’ unacceptable violation of the right of expression. IPSA’s statement also failed to show solidarity with the persecuted scholars in Turkey and elsewhere. The members of our panel decided unanimously to take part in the boycott. You can find here the call for boycott of the International Political Science Association’s (IPSA) 24th World Congress. Instead, we have decided to hold this workshop because we believe that academic discussions must take place. In addition, we will devote the end of the workshop in order to inform the audience about the persecution of Academics for Peace, and discuss the situation in Turkey in the hope of finding a way to offer them concrete support.
Kontakt
Dorothee Mertz
mertz ( at ) cmb.hu-berlin.de
Programm
9h-9h30 : Introduction (en français)
Anthony Pregnolato - Université Paris Ouest Nanterre, ISP, Centre Marc Bloch
9h30-11h : Session I (en français)
For Whom the Riot tolls ? Process and social construction of rioters roles Pour qui sonnent les émeutes ? Processus et construction sociale des rôles émeutiers
- Les logiques politiques des émeutes : le rôle de la police: Guillaume Roux , IEP de Grenoble, FNSP, UMR Pacte
- Bavures et émeutes. Conditions d'émergence d'un signe déclencheur type dans le Rhône (1979- 2000): Alessio Motta, Université Paris 1, CESSP
Modération : Anthony Pregnolato, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre, ISP, Centre Marc Bloch
Coffee Break
11h15-12h45 : Session II (en anglais)
Who protects us from the police ? What police deviances do to political movements Qui nous protège de la police ? Ce que les déviances policières font aux mouvements politiques
- Russian Police on Trial : from "primorskie partizany" to ECH: Anne Le Huérou, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre, ISP
- Provocation of Counter-Violence as Security Practice : Policing, Security and Fear in Urban Turkey: Deniz Yonucu / Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Post-Doc Fellow, Research Fellow at The Forum Transregional Studies in Berlin.
Modération : Victor Collet, Docteur en science politique, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre, IGR Labex (Passés dans le présent), ISP
Lunch Break
14h15-15h45 : Session III (en français)
We always get reasons to revolt : possibilities and rioting configurations On a toujours des raisons de se révolter : possibilités et configurations émeutières
- Les désordres urbains et le contentieux entre la police et les habitants des cités d’habitat social dans l’agglomération lyonnaise au tournant des années 1970 et 1980: Foued Nasri / Chercheur postdoctoral à l'Institut d'Etudes de la Citoyenneté Université de Genève, Docteur associé au CERI SciencesPo Paris
- De l’infrapolitique au politique ? Les débouchés organisationnels des émeutes de Los Angeles: Julien Talpin / Université Lille 2, Ceraps, Chargé de recherche CNRS
Modération : Soline Laplanche-Servigne, Université de Nice – Sophia Antipolis , ERMES
Coffee Break
16h00-17h45 : Conclusions (en anglais et français)
Modération : Victor Collet, Docteur en science politique, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre, IGR Labex (Passés dans le présent), ISP
17h45-19h : Repression in Turkey. Information and debate on the boycott of the IPSA’s Congress (en anglais)