Violent order : essays on the nature of police / edited by David Correia and Tyler Wall ; foreword by Rachel Herzing.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Correia, David, 1968- editor.

Wall, Tyler, editor.

Herzing, Rachel, writer of foreword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Police brutality.

Police brutality--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (200 pages)

Place of Publication:

Chicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books, 2021.

Summary:

"This book's radical theory of police argues that the police demand for order is a class order and a racialized and patriarchal order. To maintain it, they must patrol an imaginary line between society and nature and transform nature into inert matter made available for accumulation. Police don't just patrol the ghetto or the Indian reservation, and the thin blue line doesn't just refer to a social order. Rather, police announce a general claim to domination--of labor and of nature. Police and police violence are modes of environment making. This edited volume argues that any effort to understand racialized police violence is incomplete without a focus on the role of police in constituting and reinforcing patterns of environmental racism." -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Foreword: The fantasy of police / Rachel Herzing

Introduction: On the nature of police / David Correira and Tyler Wall

Part I: The order of police

Chapter one: Inventing humanity, or the thin blue line as "patronizing shit" / Tyler Wall

Chapter two: Disrupting order: Race, class and the roots of policing

Philip V. McHarris

Part II: The violence of police

Chapter three: The white dog and dark water: Police violence in Central Vally / Julie Sze

Chapter four: Poisoned and policed to death: Korryn Gaines, Freddie Gray, and the nature of police / David Correia

Part III: The nature of police

Chapter five: Policing, pipelines, and capillaries of capital in a warming world / Axel González

Chapter six: Securing nature's return: Ecosystem ecology and environmental policing at the Savannah River site / Andrea Miller

Part IV

Chapter seven: The armed friendlies of settler order / Melanie K. Yazzie

Chapter eight: The monster and the police: Dexter to Hobbes / Mark Neocleous

Chapter nine: Proof of death: Police power and the visual economies of seizure, accumulation, and trophy / Travis Linnemann

Epilogue: The plague of police / David Correia and Tyler Wall.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781642594874

1642594873

OCLC:

1259589123