Protecting Whose Security?: Anti-Terrorism Legislation and the Criminalization of Dissent

dc.contributor.authorBrabazon, Honor
dc.date.accessioned2008-07-17T19:21:03Z
dc.date.available2008-07-17T19:21:03Z
dc.date.issued2006-12
dc.description.abstractThis paper provides a critical evaluation of some of the rarely-considered impacts of legislation that is passed in the name of ‘security,’ particularly the anti-terrorism legislation that has been passed throughout northern industrialized countries and beyond since September 11, 2001. Since September 11, a growing body of literature has developed examining the impact of anti-terrorism legislation on civil liberties, but very little addresses the impact of the legislation specifically on social movements or on dissent to the current configuration of power in our society more generally. This paper seeks to open space for such a debate. It offers a preliminary analysis of the impact and potential impact of anti-terrorism legislation on social movements and community organizing, focusing on the possible political rationale behind such impacts. The analysis pushes us to ask the question, “Whose security are these acts designed to protect?” and presents us with a disturbing answer: the beneficiaries of contemporary capitalist relations.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/1316
dc.identifier.urihttp://www.yorku.ca/yciss/publications/documents/WP43-Brabazon.pdf
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherYCISSen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesWorking Paperen
dc.relation.ispartofseries43en
dc.rights.urihttp://www.yorku.ca/yciss/
dc.subjectanti-terrorism legislationen
dc.subjectsocial movementsen
dc.subjectcommunity organizingen
dc.subjectcapitalismen
dc.subjectCanada’s Anti-Terrorism Acten
dc.subjectBill C-36en
dc.subjectWar Measures Acten
dc.subjectimperialismen
dc.titleProtecting Whose Security?: Anti-Terrorism Legislation and the Criminalization of Dissenten
dc.typeWorking Paperen

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