@techreport{2d4fb8d6b34e4b01bd0f06128803619a,
title = "Police punishment and the infrapolitics of (online) anti-police protest",
abstract = "Diarmaid Harkin recently called for a theory of police punishment and its public acceptance. He stated that police violence is {\textquoteleft}provided with a warranty of approval and encouragement from larger, aggregate, deeply held emotions and sensibilities{\textquoteright}. We lend our support to his demand for a penal theory of police, but disagree in regard to his explanation of the relative quiescence of {\textquotedblleft}the public{\textquotedblright} in the face of police punishment. We do so on empirical, epistemological and methodological grounds by (1) centralizing anti-police protest and resistance instead of consensus and acceptance of police punishment; (2) raising the epistemological question {\textquotedblleft}how do we know protest/approval?{\textquotedblright} and (3) addressing the methodological aspects of studying online resistance, or {\textquotedblleft}hashtag activism{\textquotedblright}, in anti-police protest. Central to our thesis is James Scott{\textquoteright}s theory of hidden transcripts and the infrapolitics of resistance.",
keywords = "police punishment, (online) resistance, hashtag activism, infrapolitics, hidden transcripts",
author = "P. Mutsaers and \{van Nuenen\}, Tom",
note = "Series: Tilburg Papers in Culture Studies No.: 164",
year = "2016",
language = "English",
series = "Tilburg Papers in Culture Studies",
number = "164",
pages = "1--20",
type = "WorkingPaper",
}