Matthijs Gardenier

Towards a Vigilant Society

From Citizen Participation to Anti-Migrant Vigilantism

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Produktbeschreibung

Gardenier aims to shed light on what appears to be the emergence of a new society of vigilance, especially around borders in Calais and Dover. Based on field research on both sides of the Channel, he aims to understand the dynamics of anti-migrants groups whose action is halfway between classical social movement and vigilantism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 158mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 468g
• ISBN-13: 9780197267080
• ISBN-10: 0197267084
• Artikelnr.: 66171634

Autorenporträt

Matthijs Gardenier is Doctor in Sociology. His research is on social movements, political violence and social media. He completed a PhD on the sociology of crowds and on crowd policing at the University of Montpellier. Since then, he has been working on anti-migrant movements and on conservative participation to security and policing, with a focus on vigilantism. From 2019 to 2021, he conducted a British Academy Newton International Fellowship at the University of Manchester on anti-migrant groups in Dover and in Calais. Matthijs Gardenier has also been teaching at the Universities of Montpellier and of Brasilia (Brazil) since 2012. He has also produced several sociological documentaries.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Practitioners of vigilantism
Chapter 2: Return to vigilantism
Chapter 3: The Social organisation of Neighbourhood surveillance
Chapter 4: Vigilantism as a social reaction to migrations
Chapter 5: Anti-migrants groups in Calais: the spectacle of vigilance
Chapter 6: Contentious migrations in Dover
Chapter 7: Trajectories of engagement