Everything is Police (Forerunners:Ideas First)

by: James Trafford (Author)

Publisher: University of Minnesota Press

Publication Date: 23 Jan. 2024

Language: English

Print Length: 112 pages

ISBN-10: 1517916860

ISBN-13: 9781517916862

Book Description

How institutional and interpersonal policing have been central to worldmaking Policing is constitutive of colonial modeity:normalizing, intealizing, and legalizing anti-Black violence as the ongoing condition for white life and freedom. The result, Tia Trafford argues here, is a situation where we cannot practically experience or even imagine worlds free from policing. From the plantation to the prison, global apartheid, and pandemic control, this book examines why and how policing has become the most ingrained, commonsense—and insidious—way of managing our world.
How institutional and interpersonal policing have been central to worldmaking Policing is constitutive of colonial modeity:normalizing, intealizing, and legalizing anti-Black violence as the ongoing condition for white life and freedom. The result, Tia Trafford argues here, is a situation where we cannot practically experience or even imagine worlds free from policing. From the plantation to the prison, global apartheid, and pandemic control, this book examines why and how policing has become the most ingrained, commonsense—and insidious—way of managing our world.