Disrupting the Status Quo of Political Repression

Session Submission Type: Paper Session (90 minute)

Description

In a moment of escalating criminalization, prohibitions on protest, and punitive labeling of social movements, this panel invites papers that think sociologically about political repression.  What forms is repression taking in this moment?  What are its effects?  How are social movements understanding and responding to the threats and opportunities of this moment?  We welcome papers that conceptualize repression as bound up in more diffuse systems of social control—for instance, scholarship thinking about surveillance and incarceration of specific populations as constraining the possibilities for dissent.  We also welcome papers focused on targeted efforts to quell protest, to threaten activists, and to control social movement organizations.  We welcome studies of political repression by state and/or private actors, studies of political repression that is overt and/or covert, strategies for resistance, and scholarship focused on any geographic site.

Sub Unit

• Crime, Law, and Deviance Section / Disrupting the Status Quo of Political Repression

Presider

• Brianna Remster, Villanova University

Individual Presentations

• Assassinations of activists in Latin America (2000–2024) - Simone Gomes, ufpel

• Executing Repression: How the Death Penalty is Used to Repress Opposition - Annulla Linders, University of Cincinnati

• Normal Violence, Active Silence: An evaluation of Repressive University (In)action Amidst Trump Admin Immigration Actions - Anthony M Jimenez, Rochester Institute of Technology; Wenjie Liao, Rochester Institute of Technology

• Protest or Politics? An Examination of the Introduction and Passage of Repressive Policies - Baylee Hudgens, Purdue University

• Repression as Punitive Racialized Social Control: Examining the Case of Black and Muslim Activism in Sweden - Jasmine Kelekay, Howard University

• The Thirty-Year Rebellion: Race, Revolt, and Repression in Colonial New York - Jacob Hood, New York University

Session Organizers

• April D. Fernandes, North Carolina State University

• Joss Taylor Greene, University of California-Davis