Towards Anti-policing: Prefiguring Possibilities beyond the Thin Blue Line

Simon Springer; Richard J. White

doi:10.5771/9781666931921

Summary

Offering a diagnostic global perspective on police brutality, Towards Anti-policing: Prefiguring Possibilities beyond the Thin Blue Line raises critical questions about whether policing is needed at all and what underlying purpose it actually serves. In this post-pandemic era, where the grip of authoritarianism has only tightened, Towards Anti-policing positions radical grassroots activism as a first line of critical defiance against the ‘Fear Terror Paradigm’ of policing logics and the pervasive brutality that this form of community control represents.

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Edition: 1/2024
Copyright year: 2024
ISBN-Print: 978-1-66693-191-4
ISBN-Online: 978-1-6669-3192-1
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 354
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 14
Global Confidence in Police: An Analysis of Anarchist Possibilities No access Pages 15 - 36
Everybody Wants to Be a Cop No access Pages 37 - 56
Policing Ecocide No access Pages 57 - 82
Emptying Cages: Abolition, Accountability, and Dialogue No access Pages 83 - 102
Police Violence in Brazil: Counterrevolution and Necropolitics No access Pages 103 - 122
The Technology of Control—A Guide to “Less Lethal” Police Weaponry No access Pages 123 - 156
Timelines, Databases, and People’s Investigations: Community Safety in the Fourth World War No access Pages 157 - 184
Beating People into (In)Submission: The Chilean Insurrection for a Dignified Life No access Pages 185 - 214
The Persistent Coloniality of Police Brutality in the Caribbean No access Pages 215 - 236
“SSRUC-We Hate the Cops”: Punk responses to the police in Belfast, Northern Ireland No access Pages 237 - 266
Hunt Sabotage, Anarchism and the Policing of Hunting in the UK No access Pages 267 - 288
‘The Beating Heart of the Ruling Party’: On the Social and Political Functions of the Police No access Pages 289 - 316
Challenging the Thin Blue Line: An Interview with a Former Police Officer No access Pages 317 - 336
Index No access Pages 337 - 348
About the Contributors No access Pages 349 - 354