Southern and postcolonial perspectives on policing, security and social order /

Post-colonial legacies continue to impact upon the Global South and this edited collection examines their influence on systems of policing, security management and social ordering. Expanding the Southern Criminology agenda, the book critically examines social harms, violence and war crimes, human ri...

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Other Authors: Cavalcanti, Roxana Pessoa (Editor), Squires, Peter, 1958- (Editor), Waseem, Zoha (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2023.
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures and Tables
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: Southern and Postcolonial Perspectives on Policing, Security and Social Order
  • Policing, Law and Violent Legacies
  • Asymmetric Policing at a Distance? Frontiers, Law and Disorder in the Weaponized South
  • From Overseer to Officer: A Brief History of British Policing through Afro-Diasporic Music Culture
  • Police Violence, Anti-Police Protest Movements and the Challenge of Decolonialism
  • Crossing Red Lines: Exploring the Criminalization and Policing of Sedition and Dissent in Pakistan
  • Southern Institutions and Criminal Justice Politics
  • Reform, Restructure and Rebrand: Cursory Solutions to Historically Entrenched Policing Problems
  • Democratic Policing in Authoritarian Structures: Policing Models and the Exercise of Authority in São Paulo, Brazil
  • Rioting Struggles in Brazil: Prison Gangs, Staff and Criminal Justice Hegemony
  • The Political Economy of Punishment in the Global Periphery: Incarceration and Discipline in Brazilian Prisons
  • Southern Narratives and Experiences: Culture, Resistance and Justice
  • Colonial Violence, Contemporary Conflict and Socio-Ecological Renewal: Analysis from Bougainville
  • Exploring the Moving Lines of the 'Global South': Citizenship and Political Participation in a Rio de Janeiro Favela
  • Social Mobilization and Victims of Violence: Emotional Responses to Justice in an Urban Periphery
  • Women, Peace, Security and Justice: A Postcolonial Feminist Critical Review
  • Conflicts, Criminalization and Protest in the New Neoliberal Internationalism
  • The Contemporary Criminalization of Activists: Insights from Latin America
  • Framing Human Insecurity between Dispossession and Difference
  • Private Military Force in the Global South: Mozambique and Southern Africa
  • Distant Conflicts, Southern Deaths: The Trials of Neoliberal Internationalism in 'Southern Nowhere'
  • Conclusion/Afterword
  • Index