Southern and Postcolonial Perspectives on Policing, Security and Social Order

doi:10.46692/9781529223699

Postcolonial legacies continue to impact upon the Global South and this edited collection explores their influence on systems of policing and social ordering. Expanding the Southern criminology agenda, the book critically examines social and environmental harms, violence and war crimes, human rights abuses and the criminalisation of protest.

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Frontmatter
pp i-ii

Contents
pp iii-iv

List of Figures and Tables
pp v-v

Notes on Contributors
pp vi-x

Acknowledgements
pp xi-xii

1 - Introduction: Southern and Postcolonial Perspectives on Policing, Security and Social Order
pp 1-20

PART I - Policing, Law and Violent Legacies
pp 21-22

2 - Asymmetric Policing at a Distance? Frontiers, Law and Disorder in the Weaponized South
pp 23-44

3 - From Overseer to Officer: A Brief History of British Policing through Afro-Diasporic Music Culture
pp 45-61

4 - Police Violence, Anti-Police Protest Movements and the Challenge of Decolonialism
pp 62-81

5 - Crossing Red Lines: Exploring the Criminalization and Policing of Sedition and Dissent in Pakistan
pp 82-102

PART II - Southern Institutions and Criminal Justice Politics
pp 103-104

6 - Reform, Restructure and Rebrand: Cursory Solutions to Historically Entrenched Policing Problems
pp 105-118

7 - Democratic Policing in Authoritarian Structures: Policing Models and the Exercise of Authority in São Paulo, Brazil
pp 119-142

8 - Rioting Struggles in Brazil: Prison Gangs, Staff and Criminal Justice Hegemony
pp 143-168

9 - The Political Economy of Punishment in the Global Periphery: Incarceration and Discipline in Brazilian Prisons
pp 169-188

PART III - Southern Narratives and Experiences: Culture, Resistance and Justice
pp 189-190

10 - Colonial Violence, Contemporary Conflict and Socio-Ecological Renewal: Analysis from Bougainville
pp 191-210

11 - Exploring the Moving Lines of the ‘Global South’: Citizenship and Political Participation in a Rio de Janeiro Favela
pp 211-231

12 - Social Mobilization and Victims of Violence: Emotional Responses to Justice in an Urban Periphery
pp 232-250

13 - Women, Peace, Security and Justice: A Postcolonial Feminist Critical Review
pp 251-266

PART IV - Conflicts, Criminalization and Protest in the New Neoliberal Internationalism
pp 267-268

14 - The Contemporary Criminalization of Activists: Insights from Latin America
pp 269-285

15 - Framing Human Insecurity between Dispossession and Difference
pp 286-303

16 - Private Military Force in the Global South: Mozambique and Southern Africa
pp 304-321

17 - Distant Conflicts, Southern Deaths: The Trials of Neoliberal Internationalism in ‘Southern Nowhere’
pp 322-345

18 - Conclusion/Afterword
pp 346-353

Index
pp 354-366

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