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.

• 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

“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.”