Commanding and controlling protest crowds

Authors

Kylie BourneFollow

RIS ID

38572

Publication Details

Bourne, K. 2011, 'Commanding and controlling protest crowds', Critical Horizons, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 189-210.

Abstract

Police and authorities have increasingly adopted ¿command and control¿ strategies to the policing of intentionally peaceful protest crowds. These strategies work to close down access to a physical space in which a protest is to occur and thus in turn they effectively restrict the capacity of a citizen to engage in the democratic right of peaceful protest.