This is our rule of law! An ethnography of the rule of law among the “No Green Pass” activists in Italy
(2022) SOLM02 20221Department of Sociology of Law
- Abstract (Swedish)
- In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, this thesis focuses on the bottom-up conceptualisation of the notion of rule of law, developed by a group of activists against a COVID vaccine passport enforced in Italy (so-called Green Pass), and their subsequent everyday acts of resistance. By using a multimodal digital ethnography methodology, centred on both in-person and digital informal encounters, this explorative case study conducts a thematic analysis of how the concept of the rule of law, usually the prerogative of legal professionals, legal scholars and politicians, is understood and by a group of “No Green Pass activists” in Italy and subsequently used as a cultural underpinning to develop silent resistant strategies against the Green... (More)
- In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, this thesis focuses on the bottom-up conceptualisation of the notion of rule of law, developed by a group of activists against a COVID vaccine passport enforced in Italy (so-called Green Pass), and their subsequent everyday acts of resistance. By using a multimodal digital ethnography methodology, centred on both in-person and digital informal encounters, this explorative case study conducts a thematic analysis of how the concept of the rule of law, usually the prerogative of legal professionals, legal scholars and politicians, is understood and by a group of “No Green Pass activists” in Italy and subsequently used as a cultural underpinning to develop silent resistant strategies against the Green Pass itself. With the aim of conducting an empirically informed ethnography within the field of the sociology of the rule of law, this study shows how the concept can be framed, understood and used in ways that diverge from both thin and thick conceptualisations developed and studied from a top-down perspective. This study is founded on an anthropological concept of legal culture and highlights the importance of the rule of law within a larger legal-cultural web of meanings, capable of creating a complex cosmology of metaphors, tales and stories that frame the rule of law within the three identified themes (natural rights, individualism, and sovereignty), which are fundamental to understand the form of resistance of the selected group. (Less)
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- author
- Traverso, Gian Luca LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- SOLM02 20221
- year
- 2022
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- Sociology of rule of law, Sociology of constitutional law, Italian legal culture, resistance studies
- language
- English
- id
- 9099791
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- 2022-10-03 12:52:28
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abstract = {{In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, this thesis focuses on the bottom-up conceptualisation of the notion of rule of law, developed by a group of activists against a COVID vaccine passport enforced in Italy (so-called Green Pass), and their subsequent everyday acts of resistance. By using a multimodal digital ethnography methodology, centred on both in-person and digital informal encounters, this explorative case study conducts a thematic analysis of how the concept of the rule of law, usually the prerogative of legal professionals, legal scholars and politicians, is understood and by a group of “No Green Pass activists” in Italy and subsequently used as a cultural underpinning to develop silent resistant strategies against the Green Pass itself. With the aim of conducting an empirically informed ethnography within the field of the sociology of the rule of law, this study shows how the concept can be framed, understood and used in ways that diverge from both thin and thick conceptualisations developed and studied from a top-down perspective. This study is founded on an anthropological concept of legal culture and highlights the importance of the rule of law within a larger legal-cultural web of meanings, capable of creating a complex cosmology of metaphors, tales and stories that frame the rule of law within the three identified themes (natural rights, individualism, and sovereignty), which are fundamental to understand the form of resistance of the selected group.}},
author = {{Traverso, Gian Luca}},
language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{This is our rule of law! An ethnography of the rule of law among the “No Green Pass” activists in Italy}},
year = {{2022}},
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