Includes index.

On Assembly / Tabatha Abu El-Haj, Thomas Probert & Sharath Srinivasan -- 'Riotous Assemblies' : Protest in 18th Century England / Adrian Randall -- In Search of a Political Theory of Assembly / Sharath Srinivasan -- The Overregulation of the Democratic Politics of Freedom of Assembly / Stu Woolman -- Assembly as Political Practice / Tabatha Abu El-Haj -- Assembly, Pluralism, and Identity / John Inazu -- Strategic Assemblies : Trade-offs and Dilemmas for Social Movements / Anna Zhelnina & James M. Jasper -- Beyond Regime Types : Assemblies, Repression, and Political Impacts / Yao Li -- A Feminist Critique of Peaceful Assembly / Shan-Jan Sarah Liu -- History and Assembly in the Postcolony / Sarah J. Lockwood -- Refugees, Freedom of Assembly, and the Right to Have a Place in the World / Aslı İkizoğlu Erensü -- The Definition of Peaceful Assembly / Yuval Shany -- Peaceful Intentions, Peaceful Conduct / Orsolya Salàt -- Disruptively Assembling / David Mead -- Assembly Within 'Sight and Sound' / Timothy Zick -- Rights to Participate? Rights to Exclude? / Gregory P. Magarian -- The Digitally Mediated Freedom of Assembly / Ella McPherson -- The October Days : The Women's March on Versailles / Micah Alpaugh -- Peterloo / Iain Channing -- From Natal to the Transvaal: Women in the Front Lines of the Satyagraha March of 1913 / Louise du Toit -- The Twelfth of July in Northern Ireland / Dominic Bryan -- Looking Back at the Skokie Case : A Personal Reflection / David Goldberger -- Escraches : Assemblies and Political Memory in Post-Dictatorial Argentina / Susana Kaiser -- Reinventing a Public Assembly : Pink Dot, Singapore / Lynette J. Chua -- Anonymous as Assembly, Association, and Assemblage / Davide Beraldo -- Tahrir Square : The Complexity of An Assembly / Rabab El-Mahdi -- Movement Lessons at Standing Rock : Protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline / Tara Houska -- O-Platz in Berlin : An 'Eventful' Migrant Protest Camp / Marco Perolini -- "I Can't Breathe" / Karen J. Pita Loor -- Legal Threats to the Right to Protest / Elly Page and Nick Robinson -- (Un)Governing Assembly : A Manifesto for Voluntary Notification / Michael Hamilton -- Online Assemblies and Artificial Intelligence / Cameran Ashraf -- The Right to Assemble in Times of Emergency and the Encroachment of Counter-Terrorism / Megan L. Manion -- Understanding Collective Violence in Assemblies and Crowds / Otto Adang -- The Role of the Police Around Public Assemblies Thomas Probert -- Assemblies and Technologies of Surveillance / Val Aston -- Policing Assemblies and the Use of Force / Stuart Casey-Maslen -- Assemblies and the courts / Steven Cammiss, Brian Doherty and Graeme Hayes.

"Why assembly? With a tide of protest worldwide since the 2010s, giving focused attention to peaceful assembly seems easily justified. From Occupy and the Arab Spring to #MeToo, Extinction Rebellion and BLM, ours is a protest age. While assembly is central to the politics of our time, both the right of peaceful assembly and assembly as an independent object of study remain rather neglected. The Handbook reclaims the significance of assembly from under the shadow of other rights and from a narrow focus on public protest, breaking new ground by offering critically needed analysis on assembly qua assembly. Examining assembly as a distinct political and social practice that lies uneasily at the heart of the modern state reveals insights into the nature of society, politics, and power, and deepens our understanding of both popular sovereignty and institutionalized government. Contributions from lawyers, political theorists, sociologists, anthropologists, and historians interrogate the importance of peaceful assembly, its value, its status as a legal right, and the boundaries of its legitimate regulation. Global in scope and richly grounded in history, this Handbook serves as an authoritative resource on the right of peaceful assembly in which readers are offered a comprehensive understanding of the history, politics and law of assembly, deepened by examples of assemblies analysed as events"-- Provided by publisher.