Southern and Postcolonial Perspectives on Policing, Security and Social Order
Edited by Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti, Peter Squires and Zoha Waseem
Published
Nov 1, 2024Page count
378 pagesISBN
978-1529223675Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University PressPublished
May 18, 2023Page count
378 pagesISBN
978-1529223668Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University PressPublished
May 18, 2023Page count
378 pagesISBN
978-1529223682Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University PressPublished
May 18, 2023Page count
378 pagesISBN
978-1529223682Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University Press
Southern and Postcolonial Perspectives on Policing, Security and Social Order
Postcolonial 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 rights abuses, environmental degradation and the criminalization of protest.
The book asks how current states of policing came about, their consequences and whose interests they continue to serve through vivid international case studies, including prison struggles in Latin America and the misuse of military force. Challenging current criminological thinking on the Global South, the book considers how police and state overreach can undermine security and perpetuate racism and social conflict.
Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti is Principal Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Brighton.
Peter Squires is Professor of Criminology and Public Policy at the University of Brighton. He was President of the British Society for Criminology 2015–2019.
Zoha Waseem is Assistant Professor in Criminology at the University of Warwick.
1. Introduction: Southern and Post-Colonial Perspectives on Policing, Security and Social Order - Peter Squires, Roxana Cavalcanti and Zoha Waseem
Part 1: Policing, Law, and Violent Legacies
2. Asymmetric Policing at a Distance? Frontiers, law and disorder in the weaponised South - Peter Squires
3. 'From Overseer to Officer: A Brief History of British Policing through Afro-Diasporic Music Culture’ - Lambros Fatsis
4. Police Violence, Anti-Police Protest Movements and the Challenge of Decolonialism - Chris Cunneen
5. Crossing Red Lines: Exploring the Criminalisation and Policing of Sedition and Dissent in Pakistan - Ammar Ali Jan and Zoha Waseem
Part 2: Southern Institutions and Criminal Justice Politics
6. Reform, Restructure and Rebrand: Cursory Solutions to Historically Entrenched Policing Problems - Danielle Watson, Nathan W. Pino and Casandra Harry
7. Democratic Policing in Authoritarian Structures. Policing models and the exercise of authority in São Paulo, Brazil - Viviane de Oliveira Cubas, Frederico Castelo Branco and André Rodrigues Oliveira
8. Rioting Struggles in Brazil: Prison Gangs, Staff and Criminal Justice Hegemony - Vitor Dieter
9. The Political Economy of Punishment in the Global Periphery: Incarceration and Discipline in Brazilian Prisons - Luiz dal Santo
Part 3: Southern Narratives and Experiences - Culture, Resistance and Justice
10. Colonial Violence, Contemporary Conflict and Socio-Ecological Renewal: Analysis from Bougainville - Blaise Iruinu and Kristian Lasslett
11. Exploring the Moving Lines of the “Global South”: Citizenship and Political Participation in a Rio de Janeiro Favela - Elizabete Ribeiro Albernaz
12. Social Mobilization and Victims of Violence: Emotional Responses to Justice in an Urban Periphery - Valéria Cristina de Oliveira and Jaqueline Garza Placencia
13. Women, Peace, Security and Justice: A Postcolonial Feminist Critical Review - Giovana Esther Zucatto
Part 4: Conflicts, Criminalisation, and Process in the Neo-Liberal Internationalism
14. The Contemporary Criminalisation of Activists: Insights from Latin America - Roxana Cavalcanti, Israel Celi and Simone Gomes
15. Framing Human Insecurity Between Dispossession and Difference - Guilherme Benzaquen and Pedro Borba
16. Private Military Force in the Global South: Mozambique and Southern Africa - John Lea
17. Distant Conflicts, Southern Deaths: The Trials of Neo-Liberal internationalism in ‘Southern Nowhere’ - Peter Squires
18. Conclusion/Afterword - Roxana Cavalcanti, Zoha Waseem and Peter Squires
