Manutenção da ordem pública em Portugal: legitimidade da acção policial (2010-2014)

• Autor(a) principal: Pereira, Diogo Felipe Silva
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/19249
• topic: Protest; Protest policing; Social movements; Legitimacy; Protesto; Manutenção da ordem pública; Movimentos sociais; Legitimidade

Conflict between police and demonstrators influences the way citizens perceive security forces and the democratic institutions. Often, when police needs to resort to coercive force to keep public order, it means the failing of upholding the state’s duty to protect its citizens. Protest policing is therefore subject to the attention of scholars and researchers from fields of studies going from social movements to police studies. Nevertheless, literature has been lacking in addressing the dynamics of the Portuguese protest policing. The recent protest cycle from 2010 to 2014 spiked scholars’ curiosity towards the subject, maybe due to its nature, counting with an exponentially high number of protest events and the appearance of new actors with new ways to organize and mobilize. This master thesis aims to understand another dynamic of this protest cycle: the perception protesters and police officers have of police intervention. This aim will be pursued through the analysis of one hundred and seventy-eight (178) protest events in Lisbon, that allowed to identify the actors, motivations and targets involved in protest, as well the role of police. The completion of five (5) interviews to protest promoters and to four (4) police officers will allow to paint the actors’ perception of legitimate police intervention.