Criminalisation of political activism: a conversation across disciplines

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image sizeKEYWORDS: CriminalisationDissentPolicingActivism Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.Additional informationNotes on contributorsFabio CristianoDr Fabio Cristiano is an Assistant Professor in Conflict Studies at Utrecht University. He is a critical security scholar whose research explores the making of international conflict in/through cyberspace. Before joining Utrecht University, he was a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs at Leiden University. He holds a PhD in Political Science from Lund University, where he wrote a dissertation on the politics of cyber conflict in Palestine. He is an Associate Fellow of The Hague Program on International Cybersecurity and the lead editor of the volumes Artificial Intelligence and International Conflict in Cyberspace (Routledge) and Hybridity, Conflict, and the Global Politics of Cybersecurity (Rowman & Littlefield).Deanna DaduscDeanna Dadusc is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Brighton. She co-coordinates the Research Area Mobility: Migrations and Borders of the Feminist Autonomous Centre for Research. She is also a member of the Watch the Med – Alarm Phone activist network, a hotline in solidarity with migrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea. Deanna obtained a PhD in Criminology and Sociology in a co-tutelle between the University of Kent (UK) School of Social Policy, Sociology, and Social Research, and the University of Utrecht (NL), Faculty of Law. Her research analyses the criminalisation of practices of resistance and solidarity, including the criminalisation of migrants' solidarity and of housing struggles. Her research is informed by abolitionist approaches and addresses state, corporate and border violence from feminist and anti-racist perspectives.Tracey DavannaTracey Davanna is Lecturer in Criminology at London South Bank University. Tracey's PhD examined the securitisation of young male Muslim ex-prisoners. Along with continuing this focus, she is also interested in Policing, particularly contextualised to colonialism that raises important issues about who and how the police serve.Koshka DuffKoshka Duff is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nottingham. Her research and teaching focus on social and political philosophy, particularly issues around policing, dissent and abolition.Joanna GilmoreDr Joanna Gilmore is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of York, UK. Joanna is co-founder of the Northern Police Monitoring Project, a grassroots initiative that works with communities affected by police harassment, brutality and racism.Chris RossdaleChris Rossdale is Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of Bristol. They write about social movements, rebellious politics, and militarism and state violence, including in Resisting Militarism: Direct Action and the Politics of Subversion (EUP 2019). Their current research considers the international arms trade within the context of police power and abolition, and explores the contested political status of ‘rebellion’ in the contemporary era.Federica RossiFederica Rossi is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at London South Bank University. Her research interests include social movements and politically motivated offences, state violence and political imprisonment.Adan TatourAdan Tatour is an activist and previously worked at Adalah: The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel. Tatour was part of the Lawyers for Defending the Uprising Detainees group who provided legal counsel to detainees in Haifa during the Unity Intifada.Lana TatourLana Tatour is a Lecturer / Assistant Professor at the School of Social Sciences at the University of New South Wales. She was the 2019-2020 Ibrahim Abu Lughod Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Palestine Studies at Columbia University. She is currently completing her monograph provisionally titled Ambivalent Resistance: Palestinians in Israel and the Liberal Politics of Settler Colonialism and Human Rights. She is also co-editing, together with Ronit Lentin, a book provisionally titled Race and the Question of Palestine.Waqas TufailDr Waqas Tufail is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Leeds Beckett University. His research interests include Islamophobia, the policing, racialization and criminalization of marginalized and minority communities and the lived experiences of Muslim minorities. He is a Board Member of the International Sociological Association (ISA) Research Committee on Racism, Nationalism, Indigeneity and Ethnicity and is co-editor of Media, Crime and Racism (Palgrave MacMillan).Elian WeizmanElian Weizman is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at London South Bank University. She is currently holding an ISRF Early Career Fellowship, to conduct research on the threshold of criminalisation of political activism in the ‘liberal settler state’, focusing on the case of Israel.