Policing protest in times of austerity

Lecture by Prof. dr. Donatella della Porta (Department of Political and Social Sciences, European University Institute)

Lecture

Police violence in Taksim Square in Istanbul is yet another example of escalating policing. Donatella Della Porta will present to you the emerging model of protest policing and its causal mechanisms.

NOTE

The lecture by Dontella Della Porta will take place Tuesday June 25 instead of on Wednesday from 13:00 to 14:00.

The new millennium has indeed seen an inversion of a trend towards increasing acceptance of demonstration rights. As representative institutions are losing the trust of their citizens, given increasing problems of legitimacy on the input and the output sides, democratic rights are challenged. 

About the lecturer

Donatella Della Porta is Professor of Political science at the Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane (on leave of absence) and professor of Sociology in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute.

She has directed the Demos project, devoted to the analysis of conceptions and practices of democracy in social movements in six European countries. She is now starting a major ERC project Mobilizing for Democracy, on civil society participation in democratization processes in Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Latin America.

She is co-editor of the European Political Science Reviews. In 2011, she was the recipient of the Mattei Dogan Prize for distinguished achievements in the field of political sociology.

Her main fields of research are social movements, the policing of public order, participatory democracy and political corruption. 

Registration details 

The lecture is free and open to the public. Registration is not required. 

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