New Racial Missions of Policing: International Perspectives on Evolving Law-Enforcement Politics (Ethnic and Racial Studies) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 041584973X ISBN 13: 9780415849739

Publisher: Routledge, 2013

Synopsis

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 France, and where racial and ethnic hierarchies have supposedly been banished to the past, as in Bosnia and South Africa.

This book also examines police and security services not as mere artefacts of state authority or the prerogatives of capitalist development, but as relatively autonomous and uniquely productive intersections of new kinds of state, social and cultural formations that are remaking race, embodiment, fear and control on their own terms.

This book was published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.

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About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 041584973X
• ISBN 13: 9780415849739
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 186
• Editor: Amar Paul