Full Description
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.
Contents
Contents
Introduction: Taking a Bite out of Policing: Anarchist Currents Against Brutality, by Simon Springer and Richard J. White
Chapter 1. Global Confidence in Police: An Analysis of Anarchist Possibilities, by Dana M. Williams
Chapter 2: Everybody Wants to Be a Cop, by Christos Marneros
Chapter 3: Policing Ecocide, by Andrea Brock and Nathan Stephens-Griffin
Chapter 4: Emptying Cages: Abolition, Accountability and Dialogue, by Carissa Honeywell
Chapter 5: Police Violence in Brazil: Counterrevolution and Necropolitics, by Antonio Pele and Natália Baldessar Menezes
Chapter 6: The Technology of Control - A Guide to "Less Lethal" Police Weaponry, by Tom Raue
Chapter 7: Timelines, Databases, and People's Investigations: Community Safety in the Fourth World War, by Manuel Callahan and Annie Paradise
Chapter 8: Beating People into (In)Submission: The Chilean Insurrection for a Dignified Life against the Prime Neoliberal State, by Martín Arias-Loyola
Chapter 9: The Persistent Coloniality of Police Brutality in the Caribbean: Race, Class, and Socio-spatialised State Violence in Urban Trinidad, by Johannah-Rae Reyes, Shelda-Jane Smith, Cara Mattu, and Levi Gahman
Chapter 10: 'SSRUC—We Hate the Cops': Punk Responses to the Police in Belfast, Northern Ireland, by Ian Senjury and Conn Tenchis
Chapter 11: Hunt Sabotage, Anarchism and the Policing of Hunting in the UK, by Will Boisseau
Chapter 12: 'The Beating Heart of the Ruling Party': On the Social and Political Functions of the Police in a State of Right-Wing Populists and a Triple-Masters Class, by Piotr Zuk
Chapter 13: Challenging the Thin Blue Line: An Interview with a Former Police Officer, by Rhon Teruelle
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