Raphael Schlembach
Biographic Data
| ID | 310291 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Raphael Schlembach |
| GIVEN NAMES | Raphael |
| FAMILY NAME | Schlembach |
| SIGNATURE | SCHLEMBACH R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Brighton |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3153-0499 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 78 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Europeanisation of the contemporary far right: Generation Identity and Fortress Europe
Towards a criminology of public inquiries: From cautious optimism to contestation in the Brook House Inquiry
Although UK public inquiries garner huge amounts of public attention, there have been few systematic studies of their role in scrutinising and reforming criminal justice policy and practice. This is despite a growing number of inquiries, held under the Inquiries Act 2005, into critical matters relating to policing, justice and home affairs. This article explores the contested nature of statutory inquiries as mechanisms for accountability and oppo…
Forced empathy’: Manipulation, trauma and affect in virtual reality film
Exploring two recent examples of virtual reality (VR) short films designed to produce visceral experiences (on solitary confinement and on seeking asylum), we call into question claims that assign normative value and even transformative power to the VR medium – imagined as so-called ‘empathy machines’. Drawing on a growing body of literature that seeks to contest such claims, we point to and problematise both the manipulative intent of such proje…
Undercover policing and the spectre of ‘domestic extremism’: The covert surveillance of environmental activism in Britain
The spectre of environmental ‘domestic extremism’ has long been postulated by police leaders and security analysts in Britain. It is a narrative that has justified the commitment of enormous amounts of government resources towards police intelligence work directed at non-violent direct action campaigns. Most controversially, this has included the long-term infiltration of environmental (and other) activist groups by undercover police. This articl…
Advances in social movement theory since the global financial crisis
The social movement literature in Western Europe and North America has oriented much of its theoretical work towards micro-, meso-, and macro-level examinations of its subject of study but has rarely integrated these levels of analysis. This review article broadly documents the leading theoretical perspectives on social movements, while highlighting the contributions made in recent years with regard to the wave of protests across the globe - typi…
Carry on camping? The British Camp for Climate Action as a political refrain
The chapter engages with the notion of ‘political refrain’, adapted from the work of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, to offer some reflections on the strengths and limitations of protest camps in the action repertoire available to social movements. In the present study, ‘camping’ was a recurring thematic for British environmental protest, especially in the mobilisations of the Camp for Climate Action. Camps played more than a simple organisati…
The Wrexham Titan prison and the case against prison expansion
The building of a new ‘super prison’ in Wrexham, North Wales has begun amidst a wider expansion of the penal industrial complex. Campaigns are mobilising nationally and locally against the project. This article examines the concerns surrounding what will become the United Kingdom’s largest prison and argues that its construction is a symptom of a wider ideological attack on marginalised groups while also examining the case against prison expansio…
Negation, Refusal and Co‐Optation: The Frankfurt School and Social Movement Theory
This article outlines how the critical theory of the Frankfurt School has influenced some key debates within social movement studies. The impact of Jürgen Habermas's sociology is widely acknowledged, especially with regards to our understanding of ‘new social movements’. There have however also been several lesser‐known attempts to bring the concerns of Theodor W. Adorno's negative dialectics and Herbert Marcuse's critique of one‐dimensional soci…
Riots and political protest: Notes from the post-political present
Riots and political protest: Notes from the post-political present." Social Movement Studies, 15(3), pp. 340–341
New trends on the German extreme right
Moments of Excess: Movements, Protest and Everyday Life
Moments of Excess: Movements, Protest and Everyday Life is a collection of essays authored by the writers' collective The Free Association over the course of several years of activism. The antholog
Impossible protest: Noborders in Calais
Since the closure of the Red Cross refugee reception centre in Sangatte, undocumented migrants in Calais hoping to cross the border to Britain have been forced to take refuge in a number of squatted migrant camps, locally known by all as ‘the jungles.’ Unauthorised shanty-like residences built by the migrants themselves, living conditions in the camps are very poor. In June 2009, European ‘noborder’ activists set up a week-long protest camp in th…
Science and ethics in the post-political era: Strategies within the Camp for Climate Action
Despite a peak in activism against climate change in the UK, new environmental direct action networks have not yet received much academic attention. Taking perhaps the most prominent of such networks – the Camp for Climate Action – which held several high-profile protest events between 2006 and 2011 as a case study, and using a theoretical framework that understands society as being distinctly ‘post-political’ in character, we ask questions about…
The Transnationality of European Nationalist Movements
De transnationaliteit van Europese nationalistische bewegingen Dit artikel onderzoekt grondgedachten en beweegredenen van de transnationale mobilisatie van fascistische en neonazistische sociale bewegingen. Het stelt vast dat pan-Europeanisme een basisdogma vormt, en geen contraprincipe, van het extreem-nationalistische gedachtegoed. Dat wordt aangetoond aan de hand van enkele eigentijdse voorbeelden van Duitse extraparlementaire organisaties die…
How do radical climate movements negotiate their environmental and their social agendas? A study of debates within the Camp for Climate Action (UK)
This is a case study of the Camp for Climate Action, which has held several high-profile protest events in the UK since its inception in 2006. It analyses the Camp as a contested space where different emphases on environmental and social priorities have to be negotiated by its activists. The article considers areas of contestation where concerns over climate change meet questions of social justice. These are structured around tangible issues of c…
Negativity and Revolution: Adorno and Political Activism edited by John Holloway, Fernando Matamoros and Sergio Tischler
John Holloway, Fernando Matamoros and Sergio Tischler ( eds ), Negativity and Revolution: Adorno and Political Activism . London : Pluto , 2009 . ISBN 978-0-7453-2836-2 With Negativity and Revolution, the editors John Holloway, Fernando Matamoros and Sergio Tischler face a real challenge: they attempt to introduce the themes of Theodor W. Adorno's Negative Dialectics (1990) to the contemporary anti-capitalist movement. Not only are today's altern…
Impossible protest: Noborders in Calais
Since the closure of the Red Cross refugee reception centre in Sangatte, undocumented migrants in Calais hoping to cross the border to Britain have been forced to take refuge in a number of squatted migrant camps, locally known by all as ‘the jungles.’ Unauthorised shanty-like residences built by the migrants themselves, living conditions in the camps are very poor. In June 2009, European ‘noborder’ activists set up a week-long protest camp in th…
How do radical climate movements negotiate their environmental and their social agendas? A study of debates within the Camp for Climate Action (UK)
This is a case study of the Camp for Climate Action, which has held several high-profile protest events in the UK since its inception in 2006. It analyses the Camp as a contested space where different emphases on environmental and social priorities have to be negotiated by its activists. The article considers areas of contestation where concerns over climate change meet questions of social justice. These are structured around tangible issues of c…
Science and ethics in the post-political era: Strategies within the Camp for Climate Action
Despite a peak in activism against climate change in the UK, new environmental direct action networks have not yet received much academic attention. Taking perhaps the most prominent of such networks – the Camp for Climate Action – which held several high-profile protest events between 2006 and 2011 as a case study, and using a theoretical framework that understands society as being distinctly ‘post-political’ in character, we ask questions about…
Undercover policing and the spectre of ‘domestic extremism’: The covert surveillance of environmental activism in Britain
The spectre of environmental ‘domestic extremism’ has long been postulated by police leaders and security analysts in Britain. It is a narrative that has justified the commitment of enormous amounts of government resources towards police intelligence work directed at non-violent direct action campaigns. Most controversially, this has included the long-term infiltration of environmental (and other) activist groups by undercover police. This articl…
Forced empathy’: Manipulation, trauma and affect in virtual reality film
Exploring two recent examples of virtual reality (VR) short films designed to produce visceral experiences (on solitary confinement and on seeking asylum), we call into question claims that assign normative value and even transformative power to the VR medium – imagined as so-called ‘empathy machines’. Drawing on a growing body of literature that seeks to contest such claims, we point to and problematise both the manipulative intent of such proje…
Towards a criminology of public inquiries: From cautious optimism to contestation in the Brook House Inquiry
Although UK public inquiries garner huge amounts of public attention, there have been few systematic studies of their role in scrutinising and reforming criminal justice policy and practice. This is despite a growing number of inquiries, held under the Inquiries Act 2005, into critical matters relating to policing, justice and home affairs. This article explores the contested nature of statutory inquiries as mechanisms for accountability and oppo…
Advances in social movement theory since the global financial crisis
The social movement literature in Western Europe and North America has oriented much of its theoretical work towards micro-, meso-, and macro-level examinations of its subject of study but has rarely integrated these levels of analysis. This review article broadly documents the leading theoretical perspectives on social movements, while highlighting the contributions made in recent years with regard to the wave of protests across the globe - typi…
The Wrexham Titan prison and the case against prison expansion
The building of a new ‘super prison’ in Wrexham, North Wales has begun amidst a wider expansion of the penal industrial complex. Campaigns are mobilising nationally and locally against the project. This article examines the concerns surrounding what will become the United Kingdom’s largest prison and argues that its construction is a symptom of a wider ideological attack on marginalised groups while also examining the case against prison expansio…
Negation, Refusal and Co‐Optation: The Frankfurt School and Social Movement Theory
This article outlines how the critical theory of the Frankfurt School has influenced some key debates within social movement studies. The impact of Jürgen Habermas's sociology is widely acknowledged, especially with regards to our understanding of ‘new social movements’. There have however also been several lesser‐known attempts to bring the concerns of Theodor W. Adorno's negative dialectics and Herbert Marcuse's critique of one‐dimensional soci…
The Transnationality of European Nationalist Movements
De transnationaliteit van Europese nationalistische bewegingen Dit artikel onderzoekt grondgedachten en beweegredenen van de transnationale mobilisatie van fascistische en neonazistische sociale bewegingen. Het stelt vast dat pan-Europeanisme een basisdogma vormt, en geen contraprincipe, van het extreem-nationalistische gedachtegoed. Dat wordt aangetoond aan de hand van enkele eigentijdse voorbeelden van Duitse extraparlementaire organisaties die…
How do radical climate movements negotiate their environmental and their social agendas? A study of debates within the Camp for Climate Action (UK)
This is a case study of the Camp for Climate Action, which has held several high-profile protest events in the UK since its inception in 2006. It analyses the Camp as a contested space where different emphases on environmental and social priorities have to be negotiated by its activists. The article considers areas of contestation where concerns over climate change meet questions of social justice. These are structured around tangible issues of c…
Negativity and Revolution: Adorno and Political Activism edited by John Holloway, Fernando Matamoros and Sergio Tischler
John Holloway, Fernando Matamoros and Sergio Tischler ( eds ), Negativity and Revolution: Adorno and Political Activism . London : Pluto , 2009 . ISBN 978-0-7453-2836-2 With Negativity and Revolution, the editors John Holloway, Fernando Matamoros and Sergio Tischler face a real challenge: they attempt to introduce the themes of Theodor W. Adorno's Negative Dialectics (1990) to the contemporary anti-capitalist movement. Not only are today's altern…
Science and ethics in the post-political era: Strategies within the Camp for Climate Action
Despite a peak in activism against climate change in the UK, new environmental direct action networks have not yet received much academic attention. Taking perhaps the most prominent of such networks – the Camp for Climate Action – which held several high-profile protest events between 2006 and 2011 as a case study, and using a theoretical framework that understands society as being distinctly ‘post-political’ in character, we ask questions about…
New trends on the German extreme right
Moments of Excess: Movements, Protest and Everyday Life
Moments of Excess: Movements, Protest and Everyday Life is a collection of essays authored by the writers' collective The Free Association over the course of several years of activism. The antholog
Impossible protest: Noborders in Calais
Since the closure of the Red Cross refugee reception centre in Sangatte, undocumented migrants in Calais hoping to cross the border to Britain have been forced to take refuge in a number of squatted migrant camps, locally known by all as ‘the jungles.’ Unauthorised shanty-like residences built by the migrants themselves, living conditions in the camps are very poor. In June 2009, European ‘noborder’ activists set up a week-long protest camp in th…
The Wrexham Titan prison and the case against prison expansion
The building of a new ‘super prison’ in Wrexham, North Wales has begun amidst a wider expansion of the penal industrial complex. Campaigns are mobilising nationally and locally against the project. This article examines the concerns surrounding what will become the United Kingdom’s largest prison and argues that its construction is a symptom of a wider ideological attack on marginalised groups while also examining the case against prison expansio…
Negation, Refusal and Co‐Optation: The Frankfurt School and Social Movement Theory
This article outlines how the critical theory of the Frankfurt School has influenced some key debates within social movement studies. The impact of Jürgen Habermas's sociology is widely acknowledged, especially with regards to our understanding of ‘new social movements’. There have however also been several lesser‐known attempts to bring the concerns of Theodor W. Adorno's negative dialectics and Herbert Marcuse's critique of one‐dimensional soci…
Riots and political protest: Notes from the post-political present
Riots and political protest: Notes from the post-political present." Social Movement Studies, 15(3), pp. 340–341
Carry on camping? The British Camp for Climate Action as a political refrain
The chapter engages with the notion of ‘political refrain’, adapted from the work of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, to offer some reflections on the strengths and limitations of protest camps in the action repertoire available to social movements. In the present study, ‘camping’ was a recurring thematic for British environmental protest, especially in the mobilisations of the Camp for Climate Action. Camps played more than a simple organisati…
Undercover policing and the spectre of ‘domestic extremism’: The covert surveillance of environmental activism in Britain
The spectre of environmental ‘domestic extremism’ has long been postulated by police leaders and security analysts in Britain. It is a narrative that has justified the commitment of enormous amounts of government resources towards police intelligence work directed at non-violent direct action campaigns. Most controversially, this has included the long-term infiltration of environmental (and other) activist groups by undercover police. This articl…
Advances in social movement theory since the global financial crisis
The social movement literature in Western Europe and North America has oriented much of its theoretical work towards micro-, meso-, and macro-level examinations of its subject of study but has rarely integrated these levels of analysis. This review article broadly documents the leading theoretical perspectives on social movements, while highlighting the contributions made in recent years with regard to the wave of protests across the globe - typi…
Forced empathy’: Manipulation, trauma and affect in virtual reality film
Exploring two recent examples of virtual reality (VR) short films designed to produce visceral experiences (on solitary confinement and on seeking asylum), we call into question claims that assign normative value and even transformative power to the VR medium – imagined as so-called ‘empathy machines’. Drawing on a growing body of literature that seeks to contest such claims, we point to and problematise both the manipulative intent of such proje…
Europeanisation of the contemporary far right: Generation Identity and Fortress Europe
Towards a criminology of public inquiries: From cautious optimism to contestation in the Brook House Inquiry
Although UK public inquiries garner huge amounts of public attention, there have been few systematic studies of their role in scrutinising and reforming criminal justice policy and practice. This is despite a growing number of inquiries, held under the Inquiries Act 2005, into critical matters relating to policing, justice and home affairs. This article explores the contested nature of statutory inquiries as mechanisms for accountability and oppo…
Political science (16 works) · Law (15 works) · Politics (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Art (6 works) · Social movement (6 works) · Political economy (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Criminology (4 works)