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26 | 2022
Résister aux pratiques policières et violences d'État

Resisting Police and State Violence
Edited by Magda Boutros, Paul Le Derff and Anthony Pregnolato
Illustration n° 26
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Credits: Anthony Pregnolato

The 2010s were marked by the increasing visibility of movements against police brutality across the world, from the Arab uprisings against police states, to the Black Lives Matter movement, to protests against police violence in France, Brazil, Nigeria, or Hong Kong. While the issue of “police violence” has been successfully raised (and become controversial) in the public debate, resistance to policing practices and state violence has received relatively little attention in the social sciences. The goal of this special issue is to understand what is at play when people contest police authority. We call for bridging several disciplinary sub-fields (sociology of the police, law, inequalities, social movements, and media) to better understand the logics of legitimation and delegitimation of the police, through three research axes: issues around framing the cause, the mobilization of law, and questions of opacity and visibility of police action. By examining diverse modes of resistance to policing practices in different contexts, the articles and interview in this special issue highlight the stakes, conflicts, and constraints involved in resisting policing and state violence, both in activist spaces and in the media, political, and judicial arenas. Thus, they highlight the logics that lead to contesting social relations of domination and denouncing their reproduction. The special issue also contributes to the production of knowledge and critical analyses on the police, through an examination of the discourses and practices of those who resist it.

 

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