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Book Synopsis•The uniqueness of the work lies in its proposed synthesis of all three strands, and the idea of developing this synthesis through the policy, practice and symbolic functions of policing and security making. oPost-colonial legacies impacting contemporary societies, especially systems of policing and security governance oCritical race theorists’ responses to the continuing abuses of institutionally racist police ad governance processes oPolitical developments reflected by Brexit in the UK, Trump and twitter-led neo-liberal insurrectionism in the USA, and rising anti-migrant nationalist sentiments across mainland Europe.
Table of Contents1. 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
