Geoffrey Hayes
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 259639 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Geoffrey Hayes |
| NOMBRES | Geoffrey |
| APELLIDO | Hayes |
| FIRMA | HAYES G |
| AFILIACIONES | Aston University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1871-1188 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 39 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 128 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 39 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1992 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Role Reversal
Recent years have seen a hardening of repressive and surveillance measures against protest and contentious activities in Western societies. Although these measures are not socially neutral and primarily target marginalized populations, they are now increasingly targeting environmental activists and the latest wave of resistance practices that denounce the capitalist contradictions at the heart of liberal democracies. In this piece, we bring toget…
Untangling the differential drivers of protest participation
This is the final version. Available on open access from Routledge via the DOI in this record
Extinction Rebellion's disobedient environmental citizenism
We examine the public protest of Extinction Rebellion (XR) in the UK as a specific political practice. We do so through our observation of the plea hearings of activists charged with public order offences during the April 2019 London ‘Rebellion’, focusing on those pleading guilty at the first opportunity. We show how these narratives establish the values and beliefs of these activists, including their relationships to existing state agencies and …
Cracking the Nazi Code
Taking Political Time
This article discusses the contrasting "temporal regimes" of Extinction Rebellion and the concept of a feminist green new deal. The authors discuss the former's emphasis on emergency to stimulate disobedient action, particularly out of concern for one's future children and grandchildren. They argue that, while this emphasis has successfully catalyzed public agency, this agency remains socially narrow, as emergency thinking subordinates the politi…
Necessity, Non‐Violent Direct Activism, and the Stansted 15
In Thacker and ors the Court of Appeal overturned the convictions of the ‘Stansted 15’ due to a misdirection on the substantive offence. However, the court rejected their necessity defence, following Jones , as their actions were political, outweighing a desire to avoid a risk of death or serious injury; in a ‘functioning democratic state’ their claims should have been pursued through conventional means. This is a reaffirmation of what we call ‘H…
Trajectories in environmental politics
This book explores the dominant framings and paradigms of environmental politics, the relationship between academic analysis and environmental politics, and reflects on the first thirty years of the journal, Environmental Politics. The book has two purposes. The first is to identify and discuss the key themes that have driven scholarship in the field of environmental politics over the last three decades, and to highlight how this has also led to …
Disciplinary Power and Impression Management in the Trials of the Stansted 15
We bring Foucauldian and Goffmanian frameworks into dialogue to show how repressive and disciplinary power operate in the criminal trials of social movement activists. We do so through an ethnographic account of the trials on terrorism-related charges of a group of anti-deportation direct action protesters known as the Stansted 15, complemented by interviews with defendants. We argue that the prosecution of these activists on terrorism-related ch…
Breaking Laws
Breaking Laws: Violence and Civil Disobedience in Protest questions the complex relationship between social movements and violence through two contrasted lenses; first through the short-lived radical left wing post '68 revolutionary violence, and secondly in the present diffusion of civil disobedience actions, often at the border between non-violence and violence. This book shows how and why violence occurs or does not, and what different meaning…
Anti-Abortion Clinic Activism, Civil Inattention and the Problem of Gendered Harassment
In the UK, there is evidence of a recent increase in anti-abortion activism outside clinics. In response, abortion service providers have called for the introduction of 'buffer' zones to protect women from 'harassment' while accessing abortion services. Drawing on two datasets - extensive ethnographic fieldwork, and a content analysis of clinic client comment forms - we deploy Goffman's concept of 'civil inattention' to further our understanding …
The Little Third Reich on Lake Superior
Regimes of austerity
This article discusses the European wave of contention catalysed by the financial market crash of 2008/9 and the subsequent imposition of austerity measures by governments across the continent. It develops two central arguments. First, it argues that we need a clearer and more sharply differentiated understanding of the operation of austerity as a social and political phenomenon than can be accounted for by reading the crisis of austerity as a so…
Breaking Down the State
Recent years have seen an explosion of protest movements around the world, and academic theories are racing to catch up with them. This series aims to further our understanding of the origins, dealings, decisions, and outcomes of social movements by fostering dialogue among many traditions of thought, across European nations and across continents. All theoretical perspectives are welcome. Books in the series typically combine theory with empirica…
Having Your Day in Court
Investigating the recent direct action campaigns against genetically modified crops in France and the United Kingdom, the authors set out to understand how contrasting judicial systems and cultures affect the way that activists choose to commit ostensibly illegal actions and how they negotiate the trade-offs between effectiveness and public accountability. The authors find evidence that prosecution outcomes across different judicial systems are c…
Social Movement Studies, Social Movement Studies, and the Challenges of Parochialism
In this short rejoinder, I briefly contextualise and discuss the implications of Poulson, Caswell and Gray's article for Social Movement Studies
Negotiating Proximity
This article analyzes the role of expert witness testimony in the trials of social movement actors, discussing the trial of the “Kingsnorth Six” in Britain and the trials of activists currently mobilising against airport construction at Notre Dame des Landes in western France. Though the study of expert testimony has so far overwhelmingly concentrated on fact‐finding and admissibility, the cases here reveal the importance of expert testimony not …
Olympic Games, Mega-Events and Civil Societies
This volume explores sporting mega-events, their social, political, and cultural characters, the value systems that they inscribe and draw on, the claims they make on us and the claims the organisers
Bossnapping
French industrial relations were shaken in the spring of 2009 by a series of labour struggles which featured the forcible detention of company managers and threats to commit major acts of sabotage. In this article I focus on the first of these two types of action, placing industrial sequestration in the context of the pattern of collective negotiation processes in France, and comparing it with previous cycles of the same phenomenon, particularly …
Tactics, traditions and opportunities
This article compares the tactic of trashing genetically modified crops in activist campaigns in Britain and France. In Britain, most crop trashing was carried out covertly, while in France most activists undertook open, public actions. In seeking an explanation for this, the article shows that the analysis of political opportunities, dominant in comparative studies of social movements, can only take us so far. While it helps explain the occurren…
The French Greens in the 2012 presidential and legislative elections
The French Greens in the 2012 Presidential and Legislative ElectionsThese are heady times for the French Greens.In the 2009 European elections, Europe Ecologie obtained over 2.8 million votes (16.28%), and gained as many seats (14) as the Parti socialiste (PS); in the 2010 regional elections, Greens gained 12.18% of the first round vote, 263 councillors (up from 159 in 2004), and subsequently entered alliances with the PS in the executives of 21 …
Olympic games, mega-events, and civil societies
This volume explores sports mega-events, their social, political, and cultural characters, the value systems that they inscribe and draw on, the claims they make on us and the claims the organisers make for them, the spatial and ethical relationships they create, and the responses of civil societies to them. Our premise is that sports mega-events are not simply sporting or cultural phenomena. They are also political and economic events, character…
Sustainable Development, Shock and Awe? London 2012 and Civil Society
There is a disconnection between the top-down, elite, nature of sports mega-events and the ostensible redistributive and participatory sustainable development agendas staked out by BINGOs (Business-based International Non-Governmental Organizations) such as the contemporary International Olympic Committee (IOC). Focusing specifically on the London 2012 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games, we argue that, for all the environmental technology advanc…
Collective Action and Civil Disobedience
Days of Victory
Vulnerability and disobedience
The emergence of the counter-globalisation movement in France has been accompanied by an apparent diversification of social protest repertoires. Protest events carried out by groups associated with a wide array of issues have been remarkable for their use of spectacular and novel actions, while civil disobedience campaigns have been prominent features of environmental and civil rights protests in particular. Drawing on a number of examples of con…
Having Your Day in Court
Investigating the recent direct action campaigns against genetically modified crops in France and the United Kingdom, the authors set out to understand how contrasting judicial systems and cultures affect the way that activists choose to commit ostensibly illegal actions and how they negotiate the trade-offs between effectiveness and public accountability. The authors find evidence that prosecution outcomes across different judicial systems are c…
Regimes of austerity
This article discusses the European wave of contention catalysed by the financial market crash of 2008/9 and the subsequent imposition of austerity measures by governments across the continent. It develops two central arguments. First, it argues that we need a clearer and more sharply differentiated understanding of the operation of austerity as a social and political phenomenon than can be accounted for by reading the crisis of austerity as a so…
Tactics, traditions and opportunities
This article compares the tactic of trashing genetically modified crops in activist campaigns in Britain and France. In Britain, most crop trashing was carried out covertly, while in France most activists undertook open, public actions. In seeking an explanation for this, the article shows that the analysis of political opportunities, dominant in comparative studies of social movements, can only take us so far. While it helps explain the occurren…
Sustainable Development, Shock and Awe? London 2012 and Civil Society
There is a disconnection between the top-down, elite, nature of sports mega-events and the ostensible redistributive and participatory sustainable development agendas staked out by BINGOs (Business-based International Non-Governmental Organizations) such as the contemporary International Olympic Committee (IOC). Focusing specifically on the London 2012 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games, we argue that, for all the environmental technology advanc…
Vulnerability and disobedience
The emergence of the counter-globalisation movement in France has been accompanied by an apparent diversification of social protest repertoires. Protest events carried out by groups associated with a wide array of issues have been remarkable for their use of spectacular and novel actions, while civil disobedience campaigns have been prominent features of environmental and civil rights protests in particular. Drawing on a number of examples of con…
Taking Political Time
This article discusses the contrasting "temporal regimes" of Extinction Rebellion and the concept of a feminist green new deal. The authors discuss the former's emphasis on emergency to stimulate disobedient action, particularly out of concern for one's future children and grandchildren. They argue that, while this emphasis has successfully catalyzed public agency, this agency remains socially narrow, as emergency thinking subordinates the politi…
Negotiating Proximity
This article analyzes the role of expert witness testimony in the trials of social movement actors, discussing the trial of the “Kingsnorth Six” in Britain and the trials of activists currently mobilising against airport construction at Notre Dame des Landes in western France. Though the study of expert testimony has so far overwhelmingly concentrated on fact‐finding and admissibility, the cases here reveal the importance of expert testimony not …
Collective Action and Civil Disobedience
Disciplinary Power and Impression Management in the Trials of the Stansted 15
We bring Foucauldian and Goffmanian frameworks into dialogue to show how repressive and disciplinary power operate in the criminal trials of social movement activists. We do so through an ethnographic account of the trials on terrorism-related charges of a group of anti-deportation direct action protesters known as the Stansted 15, complemented by interviews with defendants. We argue that the prosecution of these activists on terrorism-related ch…
Extinction Rebellion's disobedient environmental citizenism
We examine the public protest of Extinction Rebellion (XR) in the UK as a specific political practice. We do so through our observation of the plea hearings of activists charged with public order offences during the April 2019 London ‘Rebellion’, focusing on those pleading guilty at the first opportunity. We show how these narratives establish the values and beliefs of these activists, including their relationships to existing state agencies and …
Anti-Abortion Clinic Activism, Civil Inattention and the Problem of Gendered Harassment
In the UK, there is evidence of a recent increase in anti-abortion activism outside clinics. In response, abortion service providers have called for the introduction of 'buffer' zones to protect women from 'harassment' while accessing abortion services. Drawing on two datasets - extensive ethnographic fieldwork, and a content analysis of clinic client comment forms - we deploy Goffman's concept of 'civil inattention' to further our understanding …
The French Greens in the 2012 presidential and legislative elections
The French Greens in the 2012 Presidential and Legislative ElectionsThese are heady times for the French Greens.In the 2009 European elections, Europe Ecologie obtained over 2.8 million votes (16.28%), and gained as many seats (14) as the Parti socialiste (PS); in the 2010 regional elections, Greens gained 12.18% of the first round vote, 263 councillors (up from 159 in 2004), and subsequently entered alliances with the PS in the executives of 21 …
Worthwhile Initiatives? Canadian Mission-Oriented Diplomacy
Untangling the differential drivers of protest participation
This is the final version. Available on open access from Routledge via the DOI in this record
Trajectories in environmental politics
This book explores the dominant framings and paradigms of environmental politics, the relationship between academic analysis and environmental politics, and reflects on the first thirty years of the journal, Environmental Politics. The book has two purposes. The first is to identify and discuss the key themes that have driven scholarship in the field of environmental politics over the last three decades, and to highlight how this has also led to …
Regulating Multiplexes
Since the mid-1980s, the growth of multiplex cinemas has transformed the social, industrial, and spatial logics of film exhibition across western Europe. Pioneered in the United States, where they were developed in the mid-1970s as “destination anchors” in suburban retail centers, multiplexes first appeared in Europe in Belgium (as early as 1975), Sweden (1980), and the United Kingdom (1985). In France, multiplex development started comparatively…
Exeunt chased by Bear
Studies of environmental protest in France have tended to emphasise the great difficulties experienced by groups in gaining positive policy outcomes. One set of explanations offered is that the ‘political opportunities’ available to such groups are highly limited given the strength, centralisation, and concentration of power in the French state. Yet existing opportunity structure models neglect the effects of Europeanisation and decentralisation …
The Battle for Berlin, Ontario
The Use of Scientific Models in the Study of Polynesian Migration
After presenting a detailed argument in favor of approaches which test and criticize theory in search of scientific progress, the author juxtaposes the two dominant models or theories of the causes and consequences of Pacific emigration and seeks a synthesis which contains the best and most justifiable features of each. The MIRAB model developed primarily by Bertram and Waters and the dependency or structuralist model associated with Connell are …
Report on the annual conference of the Association for the Study of Modern & Contemporary France France
In splendid isolation
Des Verts de Toutes les Couleurs by Jean‐Luc Bennahmias and Agnes Roche. Paris; Albin Michel, 1992. pp. 192; no index. 92 Ffr. ISBN 2 226 05659 9 Génération Verte by Raymond Pronier and Vincent Jacques le Seigneur. Paris: Presses de la Renaissance, 1992. pp. 334; no index. 110 Ffr. ISBN 2 85616 623 7 Dessine‐moi une planète by Antoine Waechter. Paris: Albin Michel, 1990. Pp. 257; no index. 85 Ffr. ISBN 2 226 04910 X Objectif Terre: Les Verts de l…
Science and the Magic Eye
What is all this that I hear about psychiatrists choosing officers. Pray enquire." Many Canadians shared Winston Churchill's skepticism when British officer candidates were first exposed to psychological testing in 1942. Yet these concerns were soon muffled as the need increased to find faster and better ways to identify military leaders. Canada faced similar demand, and scientific selection methods offered much promise, including a chance for a …
The Battle for Berlin, Ontario
Pacific 2010
Replaying history as farce
In the 1990s, at the same time as political and intellectual debate in France has focused on the extent of collaboration in the Vichy period, a number of films have produced contrasting examinations of complicity and resistance during the German Occupation. This article concentrates on the construction of national identity through a reading of one such film, the critically and popularly acclaimed Delicatessen. It is argued that the domination of …
Worthwhile Initiatives? Canadian Mission-Oriented Diplomacy
Exeunt chased by Bear
Studies of environmental protest in France have tended to emphasise the great difficulties experienced by groups in gaining positive policy outcomes. One set of explanations offered is that the ‘political opportunities’ available to such groups are highly limited given the strength, centralisation, and concentration of power in the French state. Yet existing opportunity structure models neglect the effects of Europeanisation and decentralisation …
Environmental Protest and the State in France
This book discusses the issues and strategies which have characterized the environmental campaigns mounted against recent controversial infrastructure projects in France. Focusing on the changing natu
Political Action, Civic Engagement and the State
La Resistance des Etats. Les Democraties face aux defis de la mondialisation S. Cohen Paris, Seuil, 2003 263 pp., 18 euros, ISBN 2 02 039610 6 Social Movements in France. Towards a New Citizenship
Shake Hands with the Devil
Regulating Multiplexes
Since the mid-1980s, the growth of multiplex cinemas has transformed the social, industrial, and spatial logics of film exhibition across western Europe. Pioneered in the United States, where they were developed in the mid-1970s as “destination anchors” in suburban retail centers, multiplexes first appeared in Europe in Belgium (as early as 1975), Sweden (1980), and the United Kingdom (1985). In France, multiplex development started comparatively…
French Cinema
It is now twelve years since French brinkmanship pushed American negotiators and the prospects of a world trade deal to the wire, securing the exclusion of cultural products and services from the 1993 GATT agreement and the maintenance of European systems of national quotas, public subsidies, and intellectual property rights in the audiovisual sector. The intervening period has not been quiet. Although the Multilateral Agreement on Investment was…
Days of Victory
Vulnerability and disobedience
The emergence of the counter-globalisation movement in France has been accompanied by an apparent diversification of social protest repertoires. Protest events carried out by groups associated with a wide array of issues have been remarkable for their use of spectacular and novel actions, while civil disobedience campaigns have been prominent features of environmental and civil rights protests in particular. Drawing on a number of examples of con…
Collective Action and Civil Disobedience
Olympic games, mega-events, and civil societies
This volume explores sports mega-events, their social, political, and cultural characters, the value systems that they inscribe and draw on, the claims they make on us and the claims the organisers make for them, the spatial and ethical relationships they create, and the responses of civil societies to them. Our premise is that sports mega-events are not simply sporting or cultural phenomena. They are also political and economic events, character…
Sustainable Development, Shock and Awe? London 2012 and Civil Society
There is a disconnection between the top-down, elite, nature of sports mega-events and the ostensible redistributive and participatory sustainable development agendas staked out by BINGOs (Business-based International Non-Governmental Organizations) such as the contemporary International Olympic Committee (IOC). Focusing specifically on the London 2012 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games, we argue that, for all the environmental technology advanc…
Olympic Games, Mega-Events and Civil Societies
This volume explores sporting mega-events, their social, political, and cultural characters, the value systems that they inscribe and draw on, the claims they make on us and the claims the organisers
Bossnapping
French industrial relations were shaken in the spring of 2009 by a series of labour struggles which featured the forcible detention of company managers and threats to commit major acts of sabotage. In this article I focus on the first of these two types of action, placing industrial sequestration in the context of the pattern of collective negotiation processes in France, and comparing it with previous cycles of the same phenomenon, particularly …
Tactics, traditions and opportunities
This article compares the tactic of trashing genetically modified crops in activist campaigns in Britain and France. In Britain, most crop trashing was carried out covertly, while in France most activists undertook open, public actions. In seeking an explanation for this, the article shows that the analysis of political opportunities, dominant in comparative studies of social movements, can only take us so far. While it helps explain the occurren…
The French Greens in the 2012 presidential and legislative elections
The French Greens in the 2012 Presidential and Legislative ElectionsThese are heady times for the French Greens.In the 2009 European elections, Europe Ecologie obtained over 2.8 million votes (16.28%), and gained as many seats (14) as the Parti socialiste (PS); in the 2010 regional elections, Greens gained 12.18% of the first round vote, 263 councillors (up from 159 in 2004), and subsequently entered alliances with the PS in the executives of 21 …
Negotiating Proximity
This article analyzes the role of expert witness testimony in the trials of social movement actors, discussing the trial of the “Kingsnorth Six” in Britain and the trials of activists currently mobilising against airport construction at Notre Dame des Landes in western France. Though the study of expert testimony has so far overwhelmingly concentrated on fact‐finding and admissibility, the cases here reveal the importance of expert testimony not …
Having Your Day in Court
Investigating the recent direct action campaigns against genetically modified crops in France and the United Kingdom, the authors set out to understand how contrasting judicial systems and cultures affect the way that activists choose to commit ostensibly illegal actions and how they negotiate the trade-offs between effectiveness and public accountability. The authors find evidence that prosecution outcomes across different judicial systems are c…
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