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Thin Blue Rage

The Police Countermovement

AvAndrew Crosby,Jeffrey Monaghan

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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Beskrivning

Policing agencies in Canada continue to face criticism over their outsized use of violence in response to encampments of unhoused people, protests against police brutality, and sites of environmental activism and Indigenous land defence. Feeling victimized and misunderstood, police officers increasingly rally behind the idea of a “thin blue line,” characterizing themselves as guardians of civilization against disorder — with poor, racialized, and progressive people squarely on the wrong side of the line.With meticulous historical, theoretical, and empirical detail, this deeply researched text recasts police as a social movement-in-power rather than a neutral public institution. It explores key debates in policing literature alongside contemporary examples of policing’s ideological dimensions, including communications practices, membership structures, and political campaigning. Linking police identity with far-right perceptions of victimhood and alienation, Thin Blue Rage analyzes police’s defensive anger towards a public they see as not understanding or supporting how they function.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2026-05-05
Mått:15 x 23 x 1 mm
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:208
Förlag:Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd
ISBN:9781773638089

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Andrew Crosby (he/him) is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at Carleton University, on unceded and unsurrendered Algonquin land. His research engages with various themes relating to policing and housing justice — including settler colonialism, the financialization of rental housing, gentrification/evictions, and social movements. Crosby is author of Resisting Eviction: Domicide and the Financialization of Rental Housing (winner of 2024 Canadian Sociology Book Award; co-winner of 2025 Errol Sharpe Book Prize) and of Policing Indigenous Movements: Dissent and the Security State (winner of 2019 Surveillance Studies Network Book Award). Jeffrey Monaghan is an associate professor of criminology and sociology at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. His research examines practices of security governance, policing, and surveillance; much of which is focused on the expansion of policing powers under the umbrella of national security. His recent books include Policing Indigenous Movements (2018, co-authored with Andrew Crosby), Protests in the Information Age (2018, co-edited with Lucas Melgaço), Security Aid (2017), and the edited volume Disbility (In)Justice: Confronting Criminalization in Canada (2022, co-edited with Kelly Fritsch and Emily van der Meulen).

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“An important, well-researched, and powerfully articulated text. In a time of rising fascism, we need this book!”

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1:: Thin Blue Line RageChapter 2:: The “War on Cops” and the Police CountermovementChapter 3:: Historical Character of Policing in Canada: A Movement-in-Power Chapter 4:: Countermovement Currents: How Police Culture Shapes Collective Action Chapter 5:: Violence Work: Police, Socialization, and Tracking (In)JusticeChapter 6:: Communicative Police Power: Resource Extraction and Settler Colonial PolicingChapter 7:: The Police Countermovement: Thin Blue Lines, Thin Blue Rage