Rune Ellefsen

Ellefsen, Rune (2021). Why not talk about repression? Radical activism and its responses to repression. Partecipazione e Conflitto [Participation and Conflict].

Ellefsen, Rune and Sveinung Sandberg (2021). A repertoire of everyday resistance: Young Muslims’ responses to anti-Muslim hostility. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.

Ellefsen, Rune (2021). Prevention of radicalization as an emergent field of plural policing in Norway: The accelerating role of militant Islamists. Nordic Journal of Studies in Policing.

Banafsheh, Azin, Rune Ellefsen og Sveinung Sandberg (2021). “Jævla terrorist!”: Hvordan unge muslimer opplever og reagerer på muslimhets. I Ung i Norge 2021, redigert av Guro Ødegård og Willy Pedersen. Oslo: Cappelen Damm.

Ellefsen, Rune (2021). The Unintended Consequences of Escalated Repression. Mobilization: An International Quarterly.

Jämte, Jan and Rune Ellefsen (2020). Countering extremism(s): Differences in local prevention of right-wing, left-wing and Islamist extremism. Journal for Deradicalization.

Jämte, Jan and Rune Ellefsen (2020). The consequences of soft repression. Mobilization: An International Quarterly.

Ellefsen, Rune and Joel Busher (2020). The dynamics of restraint in the Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty campaign. Perspectives on Terrorism. 

Ellefsen, Rune (2018). Deepening the explanation of radical flank effects: Tracing contingent outcomes of destructive capacity. Qualitative Sociology.

Ellefsen, Rune (2017). Taking sides? Issues of bias and partisanship when researching socio-political conflict. Critical Criminology.

Ellefsen, Rune (2016). Relational dynamics of protest and protest policing: Strategic interaction and the coevolution of targeting strategies. Policing and Society.

Ellefsen, Rune (2016): Judicial Opportunities and the Death of SHAC: Legal Repression along a Cycle of Contention. Social Movement Studies.

Ellefsen, Rune (2014). Politisk mobilisering og represjon: Kontroll av grønne protestbevegelser. I: Liv Finstad & Heidi Mork Lomell (red.), Motmæle. En antologi til Kjersti Ericsson, Cecilie Høigård og Guri Larsen. Novus Forlag.

Ellefsen, Rune (2014). Skillelinjer og utvikling i dyrevernetikken. Filosofisk supplement.

Ellefsen, Rune (2013). Å fylle ”dyrevelferd” med mening: Skillelinjene i dyrevelferdsdebatten. Sosiologi i dag.

Ellefsen, Rune (2013): Med lov til å pine: Om bruk og beskyttelse av dyr. Oslo: Fritt forlag.

Ellefsen, Rune (2013). Den moderne pelsdyrfabrikken: Konflikten om legitimiteten, I: Ragnhild Sollund; Guri Larsen & Morten Tønnesen (red.),  Hvem er villest i landet her? Råskap mot dyr og natur i antropocen, menneskets tidsalder.  Scandinavian Academic Press.  ISBN 978-82-304-0080-7.  Kapittel.  s 205 - 223

Ellefsen, Rune (2013). Motstanden mot pelsdyrnæringen: Et uttrykk for noe større?, I: Ragnhild Sollund; Guri Larsen & Morten Tønnesen (red.),  Hvem er villest i landet her? Råskap mot dyr og natur i antropocen, menneskets tidsalder. Scandinavian Academic Press.  

Ellefsen, Rune; Larsen, Guri & Sollund, Ragnhild (2012). Eco-global Crimes: Contemporary and Future Challenges. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Ltd.

Ellefsen, Rune (2012). Green Movements as Threats to Order and Economy? Animal Advocates Repressed in Austria and beyond, In  Eco-global Crimes: Contemporary problems and Future Challenges.  Farnham: Ashgate (Routledge).

• Ellefsen, Rune (2021). The Unintended Consequences of Escalated Repression. Mobilization.  ISSN 1086-671X.  26(1), s 87- 108 . doi: 10.17813/1086-671X-26-1-87 Vis sammendrag

  This article examines the unpredictable consequences of escalated repression on the dynamics of contention. By examining sequences of interactions among contenders in the course of one conflict, analysis traces pathways through which the escalation of repression impacts activists and protest targets in ways that seemingly go against the intentions of repressive agents. Three types of outcomes of repression are identified: a worse situation for protest targets; triggered radicalization; and a “chilling effect” on lawful protest. This article contributes by demonstrating a temporally sensitive approach that traces how certain pathways combine to produce these unintended outcomes. The empirical case studied is the life cycle (1999–2014) of the British conflict between the Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty animal rights campaign and the Huntingdon Life Sciences corporation, which also involved the government, criminal justice agencies, and private businesses.

• Ellefsen, Rune & Sandberg, Sveinung (2021). A repertoire of everyday resistance: Young Muslims’ responses to anti-Muslim hostility. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.  ISSN 1369-183X. . doi: 10.1080/1369183X.2021.1894913 Fulltekst i vitenarkiv. Vis sammendrag

  Research has shown widespread discrimination and hostility toward Muslims in Western countries. There is less knowledge of how Muslims resist, oppose, or challenge such behaviour. Based on in-depth interviews with 90 young Muslims in Norway, this study explores responses to anti-Muslim hostility. We describe a repertoire of everyday resistance: talking back, entering dialogue, living the example, denying significance, and talking down. The first three forms occur in face-to-face encounters while the latter two are retrospect sense-making of negative experiences. We conceptualise these responses as everyday resistance because they entail ways of actively countering anti-Muslim hostility, as opposed to passively accepting or adapting to it. This repertoire of everyday resistance can make it easier to avoid victimisation, protect religious identities, and ease the daily lives of young Muslims. Increased attention to narrative resistance in studies of everyday resistance will provide a better understanding of the many ways in which marginalised groups cope, resist, and struggle with their stigma.

• Ellefsen, Rune (2020). Prevention of radicalization as an emergent field of plural policing in Norway: The accelerating role of militant Islamists. Nordic Journal of Studies in Policing (NJSP).  ISSN 2703-7045. Vis sammendrag

  This article provides a brief history of the policing of militant Islamism in Norway between 2009 and 2019. The numerous counter-responses to militant Islamism throughout this decade, it is argued, was a primary factor that accelerated the emergence of prevention of radicalization and violent extremism (PRVE) as a new field of policy and plural policing in Norway. The emergence of this field in Norway is set against similar fields internationally, and related to the evolution of the global Salafist-jihadist movement. Based on interviews with practitioners involved in PRVE and other types of qualitative data, analysis traces the evolution of this field of policing and separates it into five phases, which follows the escalation and de-escalation of conflict between the militant Islamists and those tasked to police them. The article also discusses critical aspects and consequences of this emergent field, particularly regarding the role of the police and intelligence in policing of radicalization.

• Ellefsen, Rune & Jan, Jämte (2020). Countering extremism(s): Differences in local prevention of left-wing, right-wing and Islamist extremism. Journal for Deradicalization.  ISSN 2363-9849.  24(Fall), s 191- 231 Vis sammendrag

  Policies to prevent radicalization and violent extremism (PRVE) frequently target a number of social movements seen as threats to national security. Often, this includes militant Islamist, right-wing and left-wing extremist milieus. In this article, we ask what distinguishes the ways in which local practitioners perceive and respond to these three milieus. Based on in-depth interviews with public servants in Sweden, we show how the milieus are seen to represent different types of threats, hold core values that resonate differently with dominant values in mainstream society and require responses that challenge public servants in diverging ways. Building on our analysis, we introduce a multidimensional model that clarifies why practitioners relate differently to each milieu. By including the rarely examined left-wing milieu, we are able to showcase the complexity of local PRVE work. Our study sheds new light on the challenges experienced by practitioners who are tasked to implement PRVE policy and demonstrates the problems of approaching “violent extremism” as a uniform phenomenon.

• Jämte, Jan & Ellefsen, Rune (2020). The Consequences of Soft Repression. Mobilization.  ISSN 1086-671X.  25(3), s 383- 404 . doi: 10.17813/1086-671X-25-3-383 Vis sammendrag

  This article examines the consequences of soft repression on social movement activists. By drawing on activists’ perceptions, we develop a multi-layered analytical framework that captures the experienced effects of soft repression at the individual, organizational and movement levels. Our results show that soft repression – in particular, labeling and stigmatization – primarily affect the individual level by triggering self-policing and self-control among activists. By introducing a model that incorporates several radical social movement organizations, we also show how labeling and stigmatization affect different radical groups in different ways. These measures sometimes fail to demobilize the primary targets of the repressive actions, that is, the most militant and clandestine groups. Instead, the de-mobilizing effects seem most evident in organizations that mobilize openly and inclusively. Our analysis is based on in-depth interviews with thirty-one activists from the radical left-libertarian movement (RLLM) in Sweden, most of which have been active in organizations labeled as “violence-affirming extremists” by the Swedish government.

• Ellefsen, Rune (2018). Deepening the explanation of radical flank effects: Tracing contingent outcomes of destructive capacity. Qualitative Sociology.  ISSN 0162-0436.  41(1), s 111- 133 . doi: 10.1007/s11133-018-9373-3 Vis sammendrag

  Radical flank effect (RFE) research has too often ignored the conditions under which particular RFEs occur and failed to acknowledge that RFEs might change over time, producing different, yet interrelated, outcomes across societal arenas. In order to fill these gaps, this article argues for expanding the framework to be used in analysis of RFEs by incorporating insights from recent social movement theory, and thus adding temporal and arena dimensions. This enables a deeper explanation of the conditions under which specific RFEs occur—and change—in more complex empirical settings where several actors interact in distinct arenas over time. The analytical approach is employed in the case study of the international Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC) campaign and its engagement with corporate and state adversaries throughout a fifteen-year period in the UK. The analysis does two things: first, it identifies the pathways along which the overall campaign attained its destructive capacity, which was key to the SHAC campaign’s short-term successes, and secondly, it explicates the variables and factors in distinct arenas that explain why the initial positive outcome was reversed. Thus, the analysis reveals the contingency of RFEs by comparing their short and long-term outcomes, and it explains why and how the outcomes changed. Broadly, the aim is to produce a deeper explanation of REFs, while also suggesting ways to expand this strand of research by, for example, examining the radical flank dilemma that results from the contingent outcomes of RFEs.

• Ellefsen, Rune (2017). Taking Sides? Issues of Bias and Partisanship When Researching Socio-political Conflict. Critical Criminology.  ISSN 1205-8629.  25(2), s 231- 244 . doi: 10.1007/s10612-017-9355-x Fulltekst i vitenarkiv.
• Ellefsen, Rune (2016). Judicial opportunities and the death of SHAC: Legal repression along a cycle of contention. Social Movement Studies.  ISSN 1474-2837.  15(5), s 441- 456 . doi: 10.1080/14742837.2016.1185360 Vis sammendrag

  Focusing on the British animal rights campaign against Huntingdon Life Sciences, this article investigates how changing judicial opportunities effectively cause the demobilization of a social movement campaign, explaining the central role of law and criminal justice in movement repression. The study identifies four forms of legal repression arising in response to the UK organization Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty: elite-initiated protest control, targeted criminalization, leadership decapitation and extended incapacitation. The analysis demonstrates the need to widen repression research beyond the policing of protest events, to cover how social movement activists are controlled after arrest. It concludes by arguing for the inclusion of a stage-dimension in repression research to better grasp the crucial role of private elites in the initiation of repression. The study builds on qualitative data from Britain, obtained by participant observation, trial observation and interviews, covering both protestors and their adversaries.

• Ellefsen, Rune (2016). Relational dynamics of protest and protest policing: Strategic interaction and the coevolution of targeting strategies. Policing and Society: An International Journal of Research and Policy.  ISSN 1043-9463.  28(7), s 751- 767 . doi: 10.1080/10439463.2016.1262366 Vis sammendrag

  This article investigates the relational dynamics of lawful and unlawful protest in the wake of the British Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC) campaign, and the plural policing efforts by public and private actors it triggered. The aim is to explain the coevolution of the targeting strategies employed by campaigners and their adversaries, particularly criminal justice agencies and corporate actors. Delimited to the life span of SHAC (1999–2014), the analysis tracks four forms of strategic shifts on the part of protestors and their adversaries – a series of strategic adaptations, innovation, cooperation and compliance, throughout five distinct phases of the conflict. The findings reveal how key players refine their targeting strategies throughout an interactive process, in which strategies are developed in tandem in the course of the battle. The paper demonstrates how research on strategic interaction can benefit from expanding the focus to include manifestations of strategy during cycles of stakeholder interaction, to fill the gaps left by concentrating on strategic decision-making exclusively. As the findings demonstrate, the ways in which strategies actually unfold and develop frequently deviate from the decision-making, and often involves unforeseen impacts and outcomes.

• Ellefsen, Rune (2014). Politisk mobilisering og represjon: Kontroll av grønne protestbevegelser, I: Liv Finstad & Heidi Mork Lomell (red.),  Motmæle. En antologi til Kjersti Ericsson, Cecilie Høigård og Guri Larsen.  Novus Forlag.  ISBN 978-82-7099-749-7.  8.  s 101 - 121
• Ellefsen, Rune (2014). Skillelinjer og utvikling i dyrevernetikken. Filosofisk supplement.  ISSN 0809-8220.  10(2), s 28- 34
• Ellefsen, Rune (2013). Den moderne pelsdyrfabrikken: Konflikten om legitimiteten, I: Ragnhild Sollund; Guri Larsen & Morten Tønnesen (red.),  Hvem er villest i landet her? Råskap mot dyr og natur i antropocen, menneskets tidsalder.  Scandinavian Academic Press.  ISBN 978-82-304-0080-7.  Kapittel.  s 205 - 223
• Ellefsen, Rune (2013). Motstanden mot pelsdyrnæringen: Et uttrykk for noe større?, I: Ragnhild Sollund; Guri Larsen & Morten Tønnesen (red.),  Hvem er villest i landet her? Råskap mot dyr og natur i antropocen, menneskets tidsalder.  Scandinavian Academic Press.  ISBN 978-82-304-0080-7.  Kapittel.  s 225 - 244
• Ellefsen, Rune (2013). Å fylle ”dyrevelferd” med mening: Skillelinjene i dyrevelferdsdebatten. Sosiologi i dag.  ISSN 0332-6330.  43(2), s 84- 112 Vis sammendrag

  Dyrevelferdsdebatten er politisert og polarisert. I lovprosessen før dyrevelferdsloven ble vedtatt, utspant det seg en kamp mellom aktører som ville definere dyrevelferdsfeltet og påvirke loven i tråd med sine interesser. I undersøkelsen av hvordan syn på dyrs status og rettigheter uttrykkes i lovprosessen, er spørsmålet om bruk av dyr et omdreiningspunkt. Analysen av intervjudata og tekstdokumenter viser at ulike interessegrupper både har svært ulike ønsker for loven og forskjellige syn på dyr. I materialet spores fire diskurser som utgjør skille­linjene i debatten: reguleringsdiskursen, dyrerettighetsdiskursen, dyreproduksjonsdiskursen og kritikkdiskursen. Diskursene har sosiale konsekvenser, og kampen mellom representanter for ulike diskurser framstår dermed som en kamp om ulike måter å organisere samfunnets behandling av dyr på.

• Ellefsen, Rune (2012). Green Movements as Threats to Order and Economy? Animal Advocates Repressed in Austria and beyond, In  Eco-global Crimes: Contemporary problems and Future Challenges.  Ashgate.  ISBN 978-1-4094-3493-1.  Kapittel.

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• Ellefsen, Rune (2013). Med lov til å pine: Om bruk og beskyttelse av dyr. Fritt forlag.  ISBN 9788281791008.  210 s. Vis sammendrag

  Hvor trekkes grensen mellom bruk og misbruk av dyr? Hva innebærer egentlig «god dyrevelferd», og hvem avgjør hvordan vi forstår det? Med lov til å pine belyser dilemmaene rundt vår bruk og beskyttelse av dyr. Boken diskuterer norske forhold, og tar for seg dyrevelferdslovens virkning for dyrene som brukes i matproduksjon og landbruk. Leseren får også kritiske innblikk i myndighetenes kontroll av denne typen dyrehold. Med en ikke-moraliserende form tilbyr boken innsikt i endringene i menneskers forbruk av dyr, måter å forstå overgrep mot dyr på og utfordringene fra den voksende dyrevernbevegelsen. Boken gir en innføring i temaer som får økende oppmerksomhet internasjonalt, både innen akademia, i offentlig politikk og i samfunnsdebatten for øvrig. Med lov til å pine henvender seg til det samfunnsengasjerte publikum, foruten de som er interessert i dyrevern, dyreetikk, dyrevelferdspolitikk eller andre sider av forholdet mellom mennesker og dyr.

• Ellefsen, Rune; Sollund, Ragnhild & Larsen, Guri (2012). Eco-global Crimes: Contemporary problems and Future Challenges. Ashgate.  ISBN 978-1-4094-3493-1.  250 s.

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• Ellefsen, Rune (2021). The Dynamics of Restraint in the Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty Campaign.
• Ellefsen, Rune (2021). The emergence of radicalization policing in Nordic countries. Nordic Criminology Blog. Vis sammendrag

  The policing of radicalization has emerged as a new field of policy and policing in the Nordic countries during the last decade. It involves a fundamental shift in the societal response to individuals associated with radicalization or extremism.

• Ellefsen, Rune & Jämte, Jan (2021). Violent extremism is not a uniform phenomenon: The key differences in prevention of left-wing, right-wing, and Islamist extremism.
• Ellefsen, Rune & Jämte, Jan (2021). Violent extremism is not a uniform phenomenon: The key differences in prevention of left-wing, right-wing, and Islamist extremism. Right Now!. Vis sammendrag

  Policies to prevent radicalization and violent extremism frequently target militant Islamists, right-wing and left-wing extremists. In a recent study we have examined what distinguishes the ways in which local practitioners perceive and respond to each of the milieus. Our results show that there is a clear discrepancy between the uniform way violent extremism is presented in policy, and how front line practitioners experience the different forms of extremism at the local level.

• Ellefsen, Rune & Sandberg, Sveinung (2021). Interrupting radicalization: The impacts of family, peer and police intervention.
• Jämte, Jan & Ellefsen, Rune (2021). Violent extremism is not a uniform phenomenon.
• Banafsheh, Azin; Ellefsen, Rune & Sandberg, Sveinung (2020). Hvordan møter muslimer religiøs hets?. Dagbladet.  ISSN 0805-3766. Vis sammendrag

  Muslimfiendtlige holdninger og hets er utbredt i Norge, men hva vet vi om muslimers reaksjoner? Vår studie viser at muslimers måter å respondere på hets på kan beskytte deres egenverd og religiøse identitet. Det kan også begrense virkningen av hets.

• Ellefsen, Rune (2020). Differences in local prevention of left-wing, right-wing and Islamist extremism.
• Ellefsen, Rune (2020). Hvordan unge muslimer opplever og reagerer på muslimhets.
• Ellefsen, Rune (2020). Opponent på NKVTS-seminar: Mental health issues in prevention of violent extremism.
• Ellefsen, Rune (2020). Preventing radicalization and violent extremism in Norway: The emergence of a new field of policy and practice. Vis sammendrag

  The prevention of radicalization is an example of a "wicked problem": a problem which no single actor can handle alone, and which is almost impossible to solve. Throughout the last decade, Nordic governments have therefore imposed increased cooperation across state, private and civil society actors to strengthen the prevention of radicalization and violent extremism (PRVE). Collaborative PRVE efforts has involved the assignment of new responsibilities to schools, social and child care services, civil society organizations, religious societies, local communities and others - also involving the police and its secret service. PRVE has thus changed from primarily being a law enforcement issue, to become the shared responsibility of citizens, local communities and an array of state and private actors. A work logic have been established that centers around forestalling criminal extremist acts from ever happening. The implementation of these new responsibilities, collaborative practices and preemptive logics have been crucial in creating what is currently a loose nation-wide structure and apparatus for PRVE in Norway. This paper traces the emergence of PRVE as a new policy field in Norway, provides a description of its characteristics and associated practices, while also discussing the role of the police and security-orientation in multi-agency PRVE work.

• Ellefsen, Rune (2020). The unintended consequenses of escalated repression: Tracing sequences of interrelated effects.
• Ellefsen, Rune; Banafsheh, Azin & Jakobsen, Siw Ellen (2020, 03. november). Hvordan møter unge muslimer hets?. [Internett].  Forskning.no. Vis sammendrag

  Hva gjør det med deg å jevnlig bli kalt «jævla terrorist» eller andre stygge ting? Flere av muslimene som er intervjuet i en ny undersøkelse har positive erfaringer med å møte den som hetser dem med vennlighet og dialog. Men denne strategien kan koste. Det er slitsomt å forsvare seg hele tiden.

• Ellefsen, Rune & Busher, Joel (2020). The dynamics of restraint on violent escalation: the Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty case.
• Ellefsen, Rune; Jakobsen, Siw Ellen & Banafsheh, Azin (2020, 16. november). How do young Muslims deal with hate speech and verbal assaults?. [Internett].  ScienceNorway.no.
• Ellefsen, Rune & Jan, Jämte (2020). Being labelled as “violent extremists”: The consequences of soft repression. Right Now!. Vis sammendrag

  What are the consequences of being labeled as a “violent extremist”? How does labeling affect individual activists, their organizations, and the social movement they are part of? In a recent study, we show that labeling – and the associated stigma – affects different radical groups in different ways and that it sometimes fails to demobilize the primary targets of the repressive actions, that is, the most militant groups. Rather, the effects are most evident amongst organizations that mobilize inclusively and openly, using primarily conventional protest tactics. From this we highlight the potential “backfire effects” of labelling, as the most militant groups might be further radicalized by this form of soft repression.

• Ellefsen, Rune & Mohamed, Idil (2020). Kunnskapsoppsummering til Bufdir: "Å være unge muslim i Norge: hverdagstro, opplevelser av og reaksjoner på muslimhets". Vis sammendrag

  Kunnskapsoppsummering til Barne-, ungdoms- og familiedirektoratet i forbindelse med arbeidet med regjeringens handlingsplan mot diskriminering av og hat mot muslimer.

• Ellefsen, Rune & Sandberg, Sveinung (2020). A repertoire of everyday resistance: How young Muslims' respond to anti-Muslim hostility.
• Ellefsen, Rune & Skogvang, Stig Gøran (2020, 28. februar). Ekstremisme. [Radio].  Radio Nova.
• Jakobsen, Siw Ellen & Ellefsen, Rune (2020, 13. oktober). Hva skjer når man kaller aktivistgrupper for voldelige ekstremister?. [Internett].  Forskning.no.
• Svenberg, Sebastian; Arnesen, Daniel; Kjellman, Kjell Erling; Mjøset, Lars; Ellefsen, Rune & Stykket, Anna (2020). Norway, In Joost de Moor; Katrin Uba; Mattis Wahlström; Magnus Wennerhag & Michiel De Vydt (ed.),  Protest for a future II: Composition, mobilization and motives of the participants in Fridays For Future climate protests on 20-27 September, 2019, in 19 cities around the world.  Södertörns högskola.  Country reports.  s 177 - 185
• Ellefsen, Rune (2019). Managing militant Islamism in Norway (2009-2019): A process-oriented perspective. Vis sammendrag

  This paper analyses how the management of militant Islamism changed in Norway between 2009 and 2019. These changes are examined in relation to developments in the militant Islamist milieu and the global Salafist-jihadist movement it was part of, together with key events at the national and international levels. The period is analyzed as an “episode of contention” that has five distinct phases, which followed the escalation and de-escalation of conflict between the militant Islamists and those tasked to manage them. Analysis also identifies key events that led the way to the establishment of a national structure and apparatus for monitoring and managing radicalization and violent extremism. The analysis draws on several qualitative data sources.

• Ellefsen, Rune (2019). Managing militant Islamism: A retrospective process-oriented perspective.
• Ellefsen, Rune (2019). Managing militant islamism in Norway: A process-oriented perspective.
• Ellefsen, Rune; Gule, Lars & Høgestøl, Sofie A.E. (2019). Fremmedkrigere og terror.
• Ellefsen, Rune & Jämte, Jan (2019). Being labeled as “violent extremists”: The effects of soft repression on individual, organizational and movement levels. Vis sammendrag

  This paper examines the effects of soft repression on social movement activists. By drawing on activists’ perceptions, we develop a multi-layered analytical framework that captures the experienced effects of soft repression at the individual, organizational and movement levels. Our results show that soft repression–in particular, labeling and stigmatization –primarily affect the individual level by triggering self-policing and self-control among activists. By introducing a model that incorporates several radical social movement organizations, we also show how labeling and stigmatization affect different radical groups indifferent ways, and sometimes fail to demobilize the primary targets of the repressive actions, that is, the most militant and clandestine groups. Instead, the de-mobilizing effects seem most evident in organizations that mobilize openly and inclusively. Our analysis is based on in-depth interviews with thirty-one activists from the radical left-libertarian movement (RLLM) in Sweden, most of which have been active in organizations labeled as “violence-affirming extremists” by the Swedish government.

• Ellefsen, Rune & Jämte, Jan (2019). Being labeled as “violent extremists”: The effects of soft repression on individual, organizational and movement levels.
• Ellefsen, Rune & Jämte, Jan (2019). Researching the hybridization of repression: Protest control in an era of Radicalization and “Violent extremism”.
• Ellefsen, Rune & Jämte, Jan (2019). Understanding protest control in an era of “radicalisation” and “violent extremism”: A multi-aspect interactionist approach. Vis sammendrag

  Since the early 2000s, governments in many Western democracies have introduced policies and practices to prevent radicalization and violent extremism (PRVE). This has led to the formation of a new policy arena in which an increased number of actors are tasked with responsibilities to prevent radicalisation and extremism, using a broad variety of repertoires. The wide set of agents and methods employed, challenges the established knowledge and analytical tools within research on repression of social movements. With this paper, we suggest a way to conceptualize this development, to categorize the actors involved and analyze their dynamic interaction. Drawing on the interactionist perspective, we show how the interplay between actors in the PRVE arena can be understood and analyzed through a focus on three main aspects: the causes, contents and consequences of protest control. To demonstrate the different aspects of our approach, and to highlight underexplored issues in repression research, we use empirical examples from our own studies of measures to prevent and counter “extremist” milieus in the Nordic countries.

• Jämte, Jan & Ellefsen, Rune (2019). Experiencing soft repression: Effects of applying the violent extremist label on radical-left activist groups.
• Ellefsen, Rune (2018). Countering violent extremism in the Nordic countries: Learning from experiences in Norwegian and Swedish municipalities.
• Ellefsen, Rune (2018). Facing repression with silence: How a movement’s cultural dynamics affect responses – and resilience – to repression.
• Ellefsen, Rune (2018). Facing repression with silence: How cultural dynamics impact protestors’ perceptions of – and responses – to repression.
• Ellefsen, Rune (2018). Performing and policing transgressive protest: A relational approach to the SHAC-HLS conflict in Britain (1999–2014). Doktoravhandlinger forsvart ved Det juridiske fakultet, Universitetet i Oslo. 121. Vis sammendrag

  This dissertation explores the reciprocal relationship between transgressive protest and the plural policing of such protest. It explicates how and why practices of protest and policing are employed and developed over time, through sequences of interactions between protestors and agents of policing. This is done by a case study of the conflict between Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS) and their main opponent, the Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty SHAC) campaign in Britain (1999-2014), which also involved the government and criminal justice agencies. SHAC’s innovative combination of lawful and unlawful protest tactics had a devastating effect on HLS. The level of SHAC’s impact is reflected in the wave of government and policing measures introduced to tackle the campaign. The relations and interactions between the key players in the conflict (protestors, private business actors and various state agencies) are analyzed along different dimensions. The dissertation thus answers its overarching problematic: how and why do the key players relate, respond and adapt to each other’s actions and tactics throughout the conflict – and with what consequences?

• Ellefsen, Rune (2018). Relational dynamics of protest and protest policing. European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control, News Letter.  (3), s 4- 8 Vis sammendrag

  All states seek to control protest and dissent in their population, but the ways in which control is exercised vary greatly across time and place (Waddington 1998: 117). Protest movements also push the limits of what is lawful and acceptable by employing innovative tactics, which sometimes take police and protest targets by surprise. When innovative protestors challenge the law – or operate on its very edge – while also resisting dialogue with the police, they are likely to be perceived as ‘troublesome’. Responses to ‘troublesome’ protestors differ, and involve dynamics fundamentally different from those applied against those who are perceived as ‘peaceful’. The policing of ‘troublesome’ protest frequently involves more than the public order police. It can include special units tasked to counter ‘domestic extremism’1 and even terrorism, it can involve the intelligence services, the prosecution services, the courts, the probation service, and even private corporate actors (see e.g., Joyce 2016). It is this relationship, between these agents of plural policing and ‘troublesome’ (transgressive) campaigners, that my dissertation of 2018 “Performing and policing transgressive protest: A relational approach to the SHAC-HLS conflict in Britain (1999–2014)” examines. The relationship is explored empirically by studying the conflict between Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC) and Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS) in Britain and beyond, together with the business partners of HLS, the British government and criminal justice agencies. The analysis follows the entire life cycle of the conflict – from the birth of SHAC in 1999 to its final dissolution in 2014.

• Ellefsen, Rune (2018). The protest-repression nexus: How movement-internal cultural dynamics affect responses to repression.
• Ellefsen, Rune (2018). The relational dynamics and consequences of radical flank effects.
• Ellefsen, Rune (2018). The unintended consequences of escalated protest policing: Tracing trajectories of interrelated effects.
• Ellefsen, Rune (2018). Unintended consequences of escalating counter-extremism policing: The development of a multi-levelled response to "animal rights extremism" in Britain (1999-2014).
• Ellefsen, Rune & Ystehede, Per Jørgen (2018, 14. juni). Fortsatt aktuell etter 50 år. [Internett].  Institutt for kriminologi og rettssosiologi sin nettside.
• Ellefsen, Rune & Ystehede, Per Jørgen (2018, 15. april). Strenge tiltak mot radikale kan gjøre vondt verre. [Internett].  www.forskning.no.
• Ellefsen, Rune; Ystehede, Per Jørgen & Kanestrøm, Jorunn (2018, 23. mars). Kontrollen med ulovlige protestaksjoner tar stadig nye former. [Internett].  Det juridiske fakultetet. Vis sammendrag

  Ulovlige protestaksjoner kan utløse kontrolltiltak som begrenser mulighetene for å aksjonere lovlig, fordi kreative kontrolltiltak fra myndighetene har uforutsette konsekvenser, viser ny forskning.

• Ellefsen, Rune (2017). Plural policing of "domestic extremism".
• Ellefsen, Rune (2017). Sosiale bevegelser og konflikter om miljøkriminalitet.
• Ellefsen, Rune (2017). Unintended consequences of policing ‘domestic extremism’: The SHAC-HLS conflict in Britain (1999-2014).
• Ellefsen, Rune & Sollund, Ragnhild (2017). Samtale om egen forskning: Mennesker og andre dyr – Makt, protest, endring. Vis sammendrag

  I forbindelse med utstillingen Pyramide inviterer Boa til en samtale mellom Rune Ellefsen og Ragnhild Sollund, begge forskere innenfor temaer som berører dyrs stilling i samfunnet – handel med truede dyrearter, grønn kriminologi, dyrevelferdsloven og protestbevegelser.

• Ellefsen, Rune (2016). Dynamics of mobilization and repression: The rise and fall of the global SHAC campaign.
• Ellefsen, Rune (2016). Relational dynamics of protest and repression: The tactical interplay between SHAC and its adversaries.
• Ellefsen, Rune (2016). Social movements and conflicts over species justice.
• Ellefsen, Rune (2016). The Radical Flank Dilemma: Contradictory Effects of the Underground's Participation in the International SHAC Campaign.
• Olerud, Maria Birkeland & Ellefsen, Rune (2016, 22. oktober). Latinamerikanske land dreper flest aktivister. [Tidsskrift].  Latin-Amerika #2, Årgang 21, Oktober 2016. Vis sammendrag

  På statistikktoppen troner Brasil med 50 drepte aktivister, Filippinene med 33 drepte, og Colombia og Peru med henholdsvis 26 og 12 drepte aktivister. Det melder organisasjonen Global Witness. Demonstranter som protesterer mot gruveutbygging, eksportjordbruk, vannkraft og hogst er mest utsatt, skriver organisasjonen i rapporten On dangerous ground.

• Ellefsen, Rune (2015). A Cycle of Protest and Repression: The Rise and Fall of Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty.
• Ellefsen, Rune (2015). Social movements and conflicts over species (in)justice..
• Ellefsen, Rune (2015). Social movements in green criminology: Studying dynamics of protest and repression in a conflict over animal experiments.
• Ellefsen, Rune (2015). Sosiale bevegelser og konflikter om ”miljøkriminalitet”.
• Ellefsen, Rune (2014). Introduksjon og kommentar til dokumentarfilmen Ghosts in Our Machine.
• Ellefsen, Rune (2014). Mat og dyrevern: Myter og realiteter.
• Ellefsen, Rune (2014). Skillelinjer og utvikling i dyrevernetikken (republisering). Salongen : Nettstedet for filosofi og idéhistorie.
• Ellefsen, Rune (2014). Understanding Political Repression of a Social Movement: A Theoretical Explication with Empirical Underpinnings.
• Ellefsen, Rune & Myrtveit, Aase Cathrine (2014, 11. januar). Verdibørsen: Om boken 'Med lov til å pine'. [Radio].  NRK P2.
• Ellefsen, Rune & Vinding, Joh (2014, 15. april). Med lov til at pine.  Animas medlemsblad.
• Ellefsen, Rune (2013). Den norske dyrevernbevegelsens historie 1859-2013.
• Ellefsen, Rune (2013). Forskningspørsmål og -design i stipendiatprosjektet.
• Ellefsen, Rune (2013). Governing the SHAC Campaign: Counter-strategies Towards Contentious Anti-vivisectionists in the UK.
• Ellefsen, Rune (2013). Mattilsynet og kravet om ny dyrevernetat. Dyrenes Stemme.  (2), s 10- 11
• Ellefsen, Rune (2013). Med lov til å pine?. Dagbladet.  ISSN 0805-3766.  s 48- 49
• Ellefsen, Rune (2013). Med lov til å pine. Dyrenes forsvarer.  (3), s 18- 19
• Ellefsen, Rune (2013). Store norske leksikon: Dyrevelferdsloven. Vis sammendrag

  Dyrevelferdsloven inneholder generelle prinsipper og konkrete bestemmelser om hvordan mennesker skal behandle tamme og ville dyr. Med utgangspunkt i dyrevelferdsloven lages mer detaljerte forskrifter for de enkelte typer dyrehold.

• Ellefsen, Rune; Hovdegård, Fredrik & Vikebø, Thea (2013, 03. oktober). Intervju om boken "Med lov til å pine". [Radio].  Radio Nova: Skumma kultur.
• Ellefsen, Rune & Linda, Pedersen (2013, 01. oktober). Dyr: Medskapning eller ressurs?.  Dyrebeskyttelsen Norge: Dyrenes Forsvarer.
• Wernersen, Camilla & Ellefsen, Rune (2013, 09. oktober). Hevder Mattilsynet mangler troverdighet. [Internett].  NRK.
• Alvarez, PIlar; Moran, Carmen & Ellefsen, Rune (2012, 06. desember). El ciudadano, mejor calladito.  El Pais (Spania).
• Ellefsen, Rune (2012). Dyrerettighetsbevegelsens strategier. Vegansamfunnet.
• Ellefsen, Rune (2012). Eco-global Crimes: Bokens bakgrunn og formål.
• Ellefsen, Rune (2012). Green Movements and Political Repression in Europe.
• Ellefsen, Rune (2012). Green movements as risks and threats? The Austrian case, “eco-terrorism” and beyond.
• Ellefsen, Rune (2012). Pelsdyrnæringen i legitimitetsproblemer: Hva med andre husdyrnæringer?.
• Ellefsen, Rune (2012). Plural policing of "domestic extremism" in Britain.
• Ellefsen, Rune & Ystehede, Per Jørgen (2012, 27. desember). - Ikke en rettstat verdig. [Internett].  Universitetet i Oslo, IKRS: www.uio.no/ikrs.
• Ellefsen, Rune (2011). Dyrenes rettsvern. Nationen.  ISSN 0805-3782.  s 5- 5
• Ellefsen, Rune (2011). Organisert kriminalitet eller dyrevern? Case: Bruk av mafia-lovgivning mot ideelle organiasjoner i Østerrike.
• Ellefsen, Rune (2011). Pelsdyroppdrett og politikk. Dagsavisen.  ISSN 1503-2892.  s 4- 4
• Ellefsen, Rune (2011). Presentasjon av kapittelet til antologien "Eco-global Crimes: Contemporary and Future Challenges".

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