LE TATTICHE DELL'ACCERCHIAMENTO. ETNOGRAFIA DELLA QUESTIONE CRIMINALE NO TAV

Le tattiche dell’accerchiamento (The tactics of encircling) are those mechanisms through which a social conflict is criminalized. The term is borrowed from Michel Foucault’s concept of stratégie du pour tour, a process conducted by different agencies of control that consists of generating fear and constructing exemplar cases on the base of a commune dispositive: the defense of society. The work detects the micro-tactics of this strategy through an analysis of media discourse and an ethnography of the two major penal process against the opposition to the Turin-Lyon high-speed railway project (No Tav Movement). The main argument is that these tactics of encircling reveal a Positivistic legacy and a blend of that with the principle of the Reason of State. The counter-conducts to these tactics of encircling have been performed by the No Tav movement during the last 12 years to reaching the point of a resistance not only to a train but to an overall neoliberal governmentality, in which law mimes the market, is applied by a judicial field that functions as the manager of security and protection, and treats the population through an attempt of separating the good and the bad population.