ABSTRACT In early 2017, dozens of US states introduced legislation designed to further criminalize confrontational protest tactics through expanding the scope of felony prosecutions and summoning the specter of the “riot” to depoliticize political action; indelibly linking it to criminal violence. This shift towards felonies and rioters took the form of legislation, intelligence reports, prosecutions, and rhetorical attempts at nearly every level of government. Demonstrations and campaigns were recast as felonious conspiracies, and the participants, rioters. In doing so, demonstrators were denied legibility as political actors, and instead held up in courts and newspapers as anti-social, irrational, and unruly criminal mobs. These legalistic, rhetorical, and strategic maneuvers can be critically interpreted through a mixed methodological approach embedded within Discourse Analysis and Autoethnography, and interpreted through a genealogical, social control framework. Through a close reading of these rhetorical shifts and their implications for policing and political repression, social movements adopting revolutionary nonviolence can increase resiliency through focusing on creating power, not simply challenging it.

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那是一场骚乱！：重罪时代的社会控制

摘要 2017 年初，美国数十个州出台立法，旨在通过扩大重罪起诉的范围和召唤“骚乱”的幽灵来使政治行动非政治化，从而进一步将对抗性抗议策略定为刑事犯罪；不可磨灭地将其与犯罪暴力联系起来。这种向重罪和暴乱者的转变以立法、情报报告、起诉和几乎各级政府的言论尝试的形式出现。示威和运动被改写为重罪阴谋，参与者是暴徒。在这样做的过程中，示威者被剥夺了作为政治演员的可辨认性，而是在法庭和报纸上被视为反社会、不理性和不守规矩的犯罪暴徒。这些律法主义的、修辞的、可以通过嵌入在话语分析和自主民族志中的混合方法论方法批判性地解释战略策略，并通过谱系、社会控制框架进行解释。通过仔细阅读这些修辞转变及其对警务和政治镇压的影响，采用革命性非暴力的社会运动可以通过专注于创造权力而不是简单地挑战权力来增加弹性。