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The Racial Politics of Police Warfare.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nijjar, Jasbinder S.
- Series:
- Racism, Resistance and Social Change Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Police--Great Britain.
- Police.
- Racism--Great Britain.
- Racism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (301 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- The racial politics of police warfare shatters prevailing myths about British police as an impartial public service. Taking contemporary anti-gang and counter-terrorism policies and practices as its point of departure, the book examines how modern policing is ultimately fashioned by a complex relationship between the politics of racism and war.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright information
- Contents
- Figures
- Series editors' foreword
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: the violence of denial
- Institutional racism and militarised policing
- 'War on gangs' and 'war on terror'
- A note on method
- Structure of the book
- Notes
- Part I: The modus operandi of modern police
- Chapter 1: Policing and the long war on race
- Colonial roots of modern policing
- Racial modernity
- Modern police
- 'The blue army' and 'household troops'
- 'Law and order society'
- The Macpherson moment
- Chapter 2: Race-war-police nexus
- The politics of police warfare
- The politics of police racism
- Enemy others of civilisation
- The biopolitics of policing
- Part II: The biopolitics of anti-gang and counter-terrorism policing
- Endorsement Page
- Chapter 3: 'Total policing' racial threat
- Constructing the threat of collective Black criminality
- The Gangs Matrix
- Islam and the threat of terror
- The Prevent programme
- Biopolitical securitisation
- 'Total policing'
- Police state, surveillance society, and the fear of race
- Chapter 4: 'Total policing' racial abnormality
- Racial abnormality and risk analysis
- From Black pathology to Black abnormality
- From Orientalism to Muslim abnormality
- Normalising race
- Containing race
- Chapter 5: 'Total policing' racial otherness
- Disposability through dehumanisation
- 'Gang' violence as a racial disease
- The Islamist 'terrorist' as a racial monster
- Policing as racial death work
- Stop and search
- Social incapacitation
- Instant annihilation
- Conclusion:resisting racial police warfare
- Towards an alternative future
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- ISBN:
- 1-5261-7441-3
- 1-5261-7440-5
- OCLC:
- 1589104738
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