State Crime and Civil Activism

On the Dialectics of Repression and Resistance

Tony Ward author Penny Green author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:31st Mar '21

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State Crime and Civil Activism explores the work of non-government organisations (NGOs) challenging state violence and corruption in six countries – Colombia, Tunisia, Kenya, Turkey, Myanmar and Papua New Guinea. It discusses the motives and methods of activists, and how they document and criticise wrongdoing by governments. It documents the dialectical process by which repression stimulates and shapes the forces of resistance against it.

Drawing on over 350 interviews with activists, this book discusses their motives; the tactics they use to withstand and challenge repression; and the legal and other norms they draw upon to challenge the state, including various forms of law and religious teaching. It analyses the relation between political activism and charitable work, and the often ambivalent views of civil society organisations towards violence. It highlights struggles over land as one of the key areas of state and corporate crime and civil resistance. The interviews illustrate and enrich the theoretical premise that civil society plays a vital part in defining, documenting and denouncing state crime. They show the diverse and vibrant forms that civil society takes in a widely varied group of countries.

This book will be of much interest to undergraduate and postgraduate social science students studying criminology, international relations, political science, anthropology and development studies. It will also be of interest to human rights defenders, NGOs and civil society.

"At the core of Green and Ward’s contribution is a detailed empirical account of the dialectical imperative created by state repression, the reproduction of its greatest adversary, a resilient civil society. This compendium is informed by the practice of people who live the dialectical imperative of state repression, often risking their safety, liberty and life. In the true Marxist spirit, the volume documents a living and breathing praxis as it unfolds through resistance to state crime and violence."

Dr. Dawid Stańczak, University of Ulster, UK, State Crime"Over the last two decades, Penny Green and Tony Ward have led state crime analyses with insightful pieces that explore state crime connections to human rights, deviance, legitimacy, and structural relations of power, as well as to how a vibrant civil society is vital to resistance... In this book, they compel us to think further about how state crimes can be prevented and challenged by civil society organisations (CSOs)."

Dr. Elizabeth Stanley, Univerity of Victoria, NZ, Journal of White Collar and Corporate Crime

ISBN: 9780367786540

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Weight: 430g

304 pages