Towards Anti-policing

Simon Springer is professor of human geography at the University of Newcastle, Australia.Richard J. White is reader in human geography at Sheffield Hallam University, UK.

“Edited by two leading scholars in anarchist geographies, Simon Springer and Richard J. White, this book is a cry for freedom against the brutality of constituted powers and all associated dogmatisms, militarisms, and fanaticisms, even when they are styled as ‘alternative’. A cry that concerns everybody who wants to make scholarship a socially relevant practice.”

• ContentsIntroduction: Taking a Bite out of Policing: Anarchist Currents Against Brutality, by Simon Springer and Richard J. WhiteChapter 1. Global Confidence in Police: An Analysis of Anarchist Possibilities, by Dana M. WilliamsChapter 2: Everybody Wants to Be a Cop, by Christos MarnerosChapter 3: Policing Ecocide, by Andrea Brock and Nathan Stephens-GriffinChapter 4: Emptying Cages: Abolition, Accountability and Dialogue, by Carissa HoneywellChapter 5: Police Violence in Brazil: Counterrevolution and Necropolitics, by Antonio Pele and Natália Baldessar MenezesChapter 6: The Technology of Control - A Guide to “Less Lethal” Police Weaponry, by Tom RaueChapter 7: Timelines, Databases, and People’s Investigations: Community Safety in the Fourth World War, by Manuel Callahan and Annie ParadiseChapter 8: Beating People into (In)Submission: The Chilean Insurrection for a Dignified Life against the Prime Neoliberal State, by Martín Arias-LoyolaChapter 9: The Persistent Coloniality of Police Brutality in the Caribbean: Race, Class, and Socio-spatialised State Violence in Urban Trinidad, by Johannah-Rae Reyes, Shelda-Jane Smith, Cara Mattu, and Levi GahmanChapter 10: ‘SSRUC—We Hate the Cops’: Punk Responses to the Police in Belfast, Northern Ireland, by Ian Senjury and Conn TenchisChapter 11: Hunt Sabotage, Anarchism and the Policing of Hunting in the UK, by Will BoisseauChapter 12: ‘The Beating Heart of the Ruling Party’: On the Social and Political Functions of the Police in a State of Right-Wing Populists and a Triple-Masters Class, by Piotr ZukChapter 13: Challenging the Thin Blue Line: An Interview with a Former Police Officer, by Rhon TeruelleAbout the Contributors