Southern and Postcolonial Perspectives on Policing, Security and Social Order

by John Lea (Contribution by), Lambros Fatsis (Contribution by), Guilherme Benzaquen (Contribution by), Danielle Watson (Contribution by), Chris Cunneen (Contribution by)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781529223675
Publisher:	Bristol University Press
Publication date:	11/12/2024
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	378
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

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

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"Criminology is in dire need of Southern voices speaking for themselves and this book delivers. Authors from Africa and Latin America share critical reflections on topics such as violent policing and structural inequality within the criminal justice system, as well as resistance and activism." Valeria Vegh Weis, Universityät Konstanz and Universidad de Buenos Aires/Universidad Nacional de Quilmes

“This book emphasizes new perspectives from the Global South, always from rigorous and systematic points of view. This is a significant piece of criminological study, which will undoubtedly be able to reach different audiences interested in the issues debated.” Marcos Cesar Alvarez, University of Sao Paulo

“This book is jam packed with original Southern and Postcolonial Perspectives about the historical and contemporary legacies of colonialism and refreshing alternative visions for a more just social order. A total of 25 authors, thinkers, scholars and activists – from Central and Southern America, Southeast Asia, North and Southern Africa, the Middle East, the Caribbean and Oceania – have collaborated in its creation. The contributors expose the violence of policing, the patriarchy and racism of post-colonial states, the social exclusion and entrenched inequalities wrought by imperialism and nation building, sanitized as ‘just war’ or ‘international peace keeping’. Case studies from favelas in Brazil, resistance fighters in Bougainville, feminist struggles for peace and security in Latin America, community policing in Trinidad, global protest movements such as - the Black Lives Matter Movement; punishment in the global periphery; privatisation of military power in Mozambique and Southern Africa, bear witness to the complex interlocking impacts of capitalism, patriarchy and colonisation on crime, violence, policing and criminal justice, in the past and the present. The edited volume makes a rich contribution to a growing area of global interest, expands the boundaries of southern and postcolonial criminology and calls for others to do likewise. I thoroughly commend the book to policy makers, critical thinkers, students and activists seeking to comprehend the far-reaching consequences of colonisation and its global boomerang effects.” Kerry Carrington, University of the Sunshine Coast