In the past decade, hundreds of new bills have been introduced in legislatures around the world–and especially in so-called liberal democracies like Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States–to criminalize dissent, social protest, and political resistance. Most of them have been designed to exercise control over anti-racist movements, outlaw grassroots climate change campaigns, and police anti-genocide and anti-war protests. Beyond parliaments, a variety of institutions–from the workplace to schools and universities–have also sought to monitor and curb their members’ exercise of political dissent. These contemporary efforts to discipline, punish, and quash dissent partake in a long, global history of state and corporate power over the form and figure of “the people out of doors.” Following South Atlantic Review’s long tradition of contributing to debates about social and political liberation, this special issue aims to shed historical and theoretical light on these new developments.
Contributors: Fikret Adaman, Meral Apak, Josh Campbell, Elizabeth Jordie Davies, Mine Eder, Esra Erdem, Kevin Lujan Lee, Darryl Li, Chong-Ming Lim, Azucena Morán, Ayşe Mumcu, Diego Nunes, Ceren Özselçuk, Erin R. Pineda, Kate Quinn, Bruce Robbins, Mark John Sanchez, Lilian Sendretti, Eraldo Souza dos Santos, Zafer Yılmaz, and Sezai Ozan Zeybek
