Dr. John Noakes
Associate Professor of Sociology
Director of the Criminal Justice Program
noakesj@arcadia.edu
Dr. Noakes is interested in the relationship between the state and political dissent. His current work focus on recent changes in how police respond to political protests.
Recent Publications and Presentations
Cunningham, D. & Noakes, J. (2008). "'What if She's From the FBI?' The Effect of Covert Forms of Social Control on Social Movements." In Mathieu Deflem, ed., Surveillance and Governance: Crime Control and Beyond, Sociology of Crime, Law, and Deviance, Volume 10: 177-200. Amsterdam: Elsevier (Spring 2008).
Gillham, P.F., & Noakes, J. (Winter 2007). "More than a March in a Circle: Transgressive Protest and the Limits of Negotiated Management." Mobilization 12(4): 341-358.
Noakes, J. & Gillham, P. (2006). "Aspects of the New Penology in the Policing of Recent Mass Protests in the US," In D. della Porta, A. Peterson, & H. Reiter (Eds.), The Policing of Transnational Protest, Ashgate Press.
Noakes, J., Klocke, B., & Gillham, P. (2005). "Whose Streets? Police and Protester Struggles over space in Washington, DC," September 29-30, 2001. Policing and Society, 15(3):235-254.
Johnston, H., & Noakes, J. (Eds.) (2005) Frames of Protest: Social Movements and the Framing Perspective. Rowman & Littlefield Press.
Noakes, J., & Johnston, H. (2005). "Frames and Framing: A Road Map," in Johnston H., & Noakes, J. (Eds). Frames of Protest: Social Movements and the Framing Perspective, Rowman & Littlefield Press.
Noakes, J. (2003). "Racializing Subversion: The FBI and the depiction of race in early cold war movies." Ethnic and Racial Studies, 26(4):728-749.
Noakes, J., & Wilkins, K.G. (2002). "Shifting frames of the Palestinian Movement." Media, Culture, and Society, 24:649-671.
Noakes, J. (2001). "From water cannons to rubber bullets: how the policing of protest has changed and what it means." The Long Term View, 5(2): 85-94.
Noakes, J. (2000). "Official frames in social movement theory: The FBI, HUAC, and the Communist threat in Hollywood." The Sociological Quarterly 41(4):639-656. [Reprinted in: Johnston H., & Noakes, J. (Eds). Frames of Protest: Social Movements and the Framing Perspective, Rowman & Littlefield Press, 2005].
Noakes, J. (1998). "Bankers and common men in Bedford Falls: How the FBI determined that It’s a Wonderful Life was a Subversive Movie." Film History, 10:311-319.
