Thin Blue Rage

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).

• 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

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