RT Article
T1 First they came for the Young Communists: police facilitation and control at COP26, Glasgow
JF Policing and society
VO 34
IS 8
SP 781
OP 796
A1 Gorringe, Hugo 1975-
A2 Rosie, Michael 1968-
A2 Portice, Jennie
A2 Tekin, Selin
A2 Reicher, Stephen
A2 Hamilton, Michael 1975-
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1906275750
AB The COP26 Climate Summit held in Glasgow in November 2021 was expected to attract mass protests. Given the climate crisis and the increase in direct action in the UK, the police anticipated huge numbers with the potential for significant disorder. Despite this, Police Scotland insisted that they were committed to facilitating peaceful protest. Drawing on ethnographic observation and interviews with both police and protestors, this paper offers analysis of a contentious event during the large set-piece demonstration on Saturday 6 November. It focuses on the containment of a small group of Young Communists to ask what this tells us about ‘facilitation’, crowd theory, and police-protestor relations. Whilst fairly insignificant in terms of numbers, we argue that the YCL containment offers valuable insights into protest policing and facilitation.
K1 containment
K1 Facilitation
K1 Protest
K1 Policing
K1 COP26
DO 10.1080/10439463.2024.2336007