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Since the 1960-70s, the US and Western Europe appear to have been subjected to a relatively uninterruptedseries of urban rebellions. Most sociologists and political scientists agree that “riots” often start asa reaction to “police violence”, as a sign of the contentious relationship between the police and BlackPeoples, post-colonial immigrants' children, and working classes. Non-violent collective action against“police violence” may additionally emerge during or after the “riots” in the form of protests, sit-ins, creationof associations, legal or community actions. Nevertheless, few researchers take an interest in questionof mobilizations against police deviances.This workshop aims at bridging this gap by proposing first to focus on this kind of contentious relationships.We wish to analyze "riots" as forms of mobilization against "police violence". Secondly, we wouldlike to introduce a comparative perspective of the various forms of “riots”, rebellions and uprisings indifferent configurations across the world. We thus intend to contribute to the understanding of the similarityor diversity of such movements, including their conditions of possibility. Finally, some papers focus onthe effects of police deviances and state repression on the people and their mobilizations. Here, ourobjective consists in studying how police deviance might push people to become activists, and how itbecomes a more political issue.To get further information concerning the workshop click here.