Single Review on past events

We invited you to our first Jour fixe in 2023 on Tuesday, 10 January .

At the beginning of the Jour fixe, Anda Lohan presented the current steps and dates regarding the next application round within the Excellence Strategy.

Afterwards, Valeria Vegh Weis (Research Fellow / Law & Literature) presented her book "Criminalization of Activism".

Abstract:
The presentation will explore the content of the book "Criminalization of Activism" edited by myself and published by Routledge last year. The book draws on a multiplicity of perspectives and case studies from the Global South and Global North to show how protest has been subject to processes of criminalization over time. Contributors are made of up scholars and activist from different disciplinary backgrounds, with a balance between authors from the Global North and the Global South. The introduction written by me frames the topic within critical criminology, while also highlighting the possible disciplinary approaches and definitions of criminalization of resistance/activism. The introduction also investigates the particularities of the current times in comparison to dynamics of criminalization in prior stages of capitalism, as well as the connections between historical criminology, indigenous studies, gender studies, critical criminology, southern criminology, and green criminology for a comprehensive understanding of how dissent has been and continues to be the target of the criminal justice system at both sides of the Equator.