The Criminalization of Dissent: Protest Violence, Activist Performance, and the Curious Case of the VolxTheaterKarawane in Genoa-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

The Criminalization of Dissent: Protest Violence, Activist Performance, and the Curious Case of the VolxTheaterKarawane in Genoa

Published:2011-12 Issue:4 Volume:55 Page:113-127
ISSN:1054-2043
Container-title:TDR/The Drama Review
language:en
Short-container-title:TDR/The Drama Review

Author:

Boyle Michael Shane¹

Affiliation:

1. Michael Shane Boyle is a PhD candidate in the Graduate Program in Performance Studies at the University of California at Berkeley. His dissertation examines 1968 historiography and the role played by performance, violence, and critical theory in shaping the German New Left. He spent the 2010/11 academic year at the Institut für Theaterwissenschaft of the Free University, Berlin on a Fulbright Research...

Abstract

The arrest of the activist performance collective the VolxTheaterKarawane concretely reveals the discourse of criminalization state authorities used to brutally suppress dissent at the 2001 G8 Summit in Genoa, Italy. It is one example of the increasingly common strategy of political elites who promote the perception of political protest as a criminal act, a misapprehension that has profound consequences for the future of democracy and dissent in late capitalism.

Publisher

MIT Press - Journals

Subject

Literature and Literary Theory,Visual Arts and Performing Arts

Link

http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/DRAM_a_00126

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