Southern and Postcolonial Perspectives on Policing, Security and Social Order

Post-colonial legacies continue to impact upon the Global South, and this edited collection examines their influence on systems of policing, security management and social ordering. Expanding the Southern Criminology agenda, the book critically examines social harms, violence and war crimes, human rights abuses, environmental degradation and the criminalisation of protest. The book asks how current states of policing came about, their consequences and whose interests they continue to serve through vivid international case studies, including prison struggles in Latin America and the misuse of military force. Challenging current criminological thinking on the Global South, the book considers how police and state overreach can undermine security and perpetuate racism and social conflict.

Table of Contents:
1. 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

About the Author :
Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti is a Principal Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Brighton. Peter Squires is Professor of Criminology and Public Policy at the University of Brighton. He was President of the British Society for Criminology 2015-2019. Zoha Waseem is an Assistant Professor in Criminology at the University of Warwick.