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State Crime and Civil Activism: On the Dialectics of Repression and Resistance
Building on four years of international field research in Turkey, Tunisia, Burma/Myanmar, Colombia, Kenya and Papua New Guinea, this book considers how civil society organizations (CSOs) have labelled and exposed state crime, violence and corruption.
| Author(s) | By Penny Green, Tony Ward (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand). |
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| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Format | Hardback |
| Pages | 294 |
| Published in | United Kingdom |
| Published | 24 Apr 2019 |
| Availability | Available |
Building on four years of international field research in Turkey, Tunisia, Burma/Myanmar, Colombia, Kenya and Papua New Guinea, this book considers how civil society organizations (CSOs) have labelled and exposed state crime, violence and corruption.
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
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 Corrupt
