1st Edition

New Racial Missions of Policing International Perspectives on Evolving Law-Enforcement Politics

Edited By Paul Amar Copyright 2011
186 Pages
by Routledge

184 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

This book identifies new formations of race, racism and ethnicity at the intersection of neoliberalism, security, urban governance and the law through a comparative, international analysis of police organizations and practices. It pushes analytical and theoretical boundaries by examining racialization and ethnicization in locations where the topic is politically taboo, such as in China, India and... Read more

1. Introduction: New Racial Missions of Policing  Paul Amar  2. Policing and Racialization of Rural Migrant Workers in Chinese Cities  Dong Han  3. Geographies of Death: An Intersectional Analysis of Police Lethality and the Racialized Regimes of Citizenship in São Paulo  João Costa Vargas and Jaime Amparo Alvez  4. Order and Security in the City: Producing Race and Policing Neoliberal Spaces in South Africa  Tony Roshan Samara  5. Police Marginality, Racial Logics, and Discrimination in the Banlieues of France  Sophie Body-Gendrot  6. The Bosnian Police, Multi-Ethnic Democracy, and the Race of ‘European Civilization’  Ann Janette Rosga  7. Counting Bodies: Crime Mapping, Policing and Race in Colombia  Eduardo Moncada  8. Concept, Category and Claim: Insights on Caste and Ethnicity from the Police in India  Anasuya Sengupta

Biography

Paul Amar is Associate Professor in the Global & International Studies Program, with appointments in Sociology, Feminist Studies, Latin American Studies and Middle East Studies, at the University of California, Santa Barbara.