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Archive of Policing the Planet

    Verso Books
    15 December 2020
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    20 Books for Budding Activists

    Our top 20 books on activism and anti-capitalist resistance, the perfect introduction to left politics.

    Verso Books
    23 August 2020
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    Decolonize your bookshelf! Verso Student Reading

    Challenge your imposed reading. 40% off until the end of September.

    Verso Books
    23 August 2020
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    Race and Ethnicity: Verso Student Reading

    Our selected reading on Race for the academic year ahead: all 40% off until the end of September.

    David Correia
    18 August 2020
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    Nine Mile Ride: Why Police Reform Always Results in More Police Violence, Not Less

    Policing is many things and all of them are about mobility. Police arrest mobility through traffic stops and checkpoints, interrupt mobility with borders and curfews, monitor mobility by helicopter or camera, force mobility by firing tear gas or sending in police dogs.

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    24 July 2020
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    The Particularities of Indian Police Violence

    A report on the history and present day reality of police violence in India.

    Verso Books
    23 July 2020
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    Activism and Resistance

    Key titles on activism and global resistance, from movements for Black liberation and climate justice to labor organizing and anti-colonial struggles.

    William Shoki
    23 July 2020
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    The Class Character of Police Violence in South Africa

    'From colonialism to apartheid and through to contemporary South Africa, it is the threat presented by the masses which means they need to be permanently contained, and this remains the enduring imperative of policing practices.' 

    Esther Waigumo NjokiGacheke Gachihi
    21 July 2020
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    Police Violence and the Criminalization of the Poor in Kenya

    Police brutality is endemic in modern Kenya, and a legacy of British colonial rule, write community organisers Gacheke Gachihi and Esther Waigumo Njoki. 

    Alex Hochuli
    20 July 2020
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    Policing Bolsonaro's Brazil

    'The question of public security, policing and racism can no longer be separated from the overall question of Brazilian democracy itself – if it ever could.' Alex Hochuli reports on the lethal police tactics flourishing under the Bolsonaro regime. 

    Verso Books
    20 July 2020
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    Verso Blog Series: Global Perspectives on Policing

    This week on the Verso Blog, we bring you reports on the past and present roles of the police in five different countries. 

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