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State Crime and Civil Activism On the Dialectics of Repression and Resistance
Acknowledgements
INTRODUCTION AND METHODOLOGY
1. CIVIL SOCIETY IN UNCIVIL STATES
2. MOTIVATING RESISTANCE
3. CONCRETE WALLS AND SNOWDROPS: STATE CRIME AND THE DIALECTICS OF RESISTANCe
4. ‘THE TRUTH IS TENACIOUS’: GATHERING AND COMMUNICATING INFORMATION
5. LEGALITY, LEGITIMACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS
6. ‘A WAY OF DIGNIFYING LIFE’: RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY
7.‘LAND IS LIFE’: DISPOSSESSION, DISPLACEMENT AND RESISTANCE
8. POLITICS, CHARITY, AND CIVIL SOCIETY
9. VIOLENCE: CIVIL SOCIETY’S FINAL FRONTIER
CONCLUSION
Bibliography
Appendix I: CSO PROFILES
Index
Biography
Penny Green is Professor of Law and Globalisation and Head of Department at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL). She has published extensively on state crime theory (including her monograph with Tony Ward, State Crime: Governments, Violence and Corruption), state violence, ‘natural’ disasters, genocide, mass forced evictions and resistance to state violence. She has a long track record of researching in hostile environments and has conducted fieldwork in the UK, Turkey, Egypt, Kurdistan, Palestine/Israel, Tunisia and Myanmar. She is Founder and Co-Director of the award winning International State Crime Initiative (ISCI). Her seminal works, with ISCI colleagues Thomas MacManus and Alicia de la Cour Venning, on the Rohingya genocide, Countdown to Annihilation: Genocide in Myanmar (2015) and Genocide Achieved, Genocide Continues: Myanmar’s Annihilation Of The Rohingya (2018), have drawn widespread global attention.
Tony Ward is Professor of Law at Northumbria University. He became interested in state crime and civil activism through working for INQUEST, a British NGO concerned with deaths in custody. In addition to state crime he writes and teaches on the law of evidence, legal history, jurisprudence and law and literature.
