On Violence and Repression

A Relational Approach (TheGovernment and Opposition/Leonard Schapiro Memorial Lecture, 2013)

Dados Bibliográficos

ID6265342
AutoresDonatella Della Porta (0000-0002-5239-8773, autor correspondente)
Ano2014
Volume49
Fascículo2
Páginas159-187
Data de publicação2014-04-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoGovernment and Opposition (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0017-257X • E-ISSN: 1477-7053
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/gov.2013.47
OpenAlexW2069156667
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas15
Referências citadas35

Oppositional violence and repression are closely related. In fact, repression often produces an escalation of violence rather than controlling it. Bridging social movement studies and research on violence, the article uses a small-N, most-different research design to analyse the working of a specific mechanism at the onset of different types of political violence: escalating policing. In particular, it indicates specific causal mechanisms, related to interactions between social movements and the state, which create the conditions for some splinter groups to move underground. In order to compare left-wing, right-wing, ethno-national and religious violence, the article presents empirical references to the author's own empirical research on Italy and the Basque Country as well as a secondary analysis of the conflicts that preceded the rise of al-Qaeda

Armed conflict · Criminology · Empirical research · Epistemology · Opposition (politics · Political science · Politics · Psychological repression · Social movement · Sociology · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law · Political Conflict and Governance · Populism, Right-Wing Movements