• Verso Logo
  • About
  • Books
  • Authors
  • Blog
  • Events
  • Book Club
  • Login

    Sign in

    Forgot your password?
    Don't have an account? Sign up here for discounts and quicker purchasing.

Archive of Policing the Planet

    Verso Books
    21 March 2023
    comments
    Abolition_is_the_only_solution_copy-
    Reading List

    Abolition is the only solution

    A reading list for breaking police power.

    Verso Books
    06 July 2022
    comments
    Gilmore_portrait_blog-

    Ruth Wilson Gilmore on the infrastructure of feeling

    An excerpt from Ruth Wilson Gilmore's new essay collection.

    Verso Books
    24 August 2021
    comments
    15-
    Reading List

    Decolonize your bookshelf!

    Challenge your imposed reading.

    Verso Books
    24 August 2021
    comments
    19-
    Reading List

    Race and Ethnicity: Verso Student Reading

    Featuring Priya Gopal, Walter Rodney, Stella Dadzie and more.

    Verso Books
    07 May 2021
    comments
    May_day_sale_blog_text-
    Reading List

    May Day Sale!

    40% off our May Day reading! Includes new reading from Noam Chomsky, Judith Butler, McKenzie Wark, and Andreas Malm.

    Sita Balani
    19 March 2021
    comments
    Untitled_design_%282%29-

    Catching History: Vigils, Riots and the Right to Protest

    Connections between patriarchy, policing, and the failures of representational politics were brought into sharp focus last weekend by police violence at the vigil for Sarah Everard.

    Verso Books
    15 December 2020
    comments
    Raised_fist_blog_post-
    Reading List

    20 Books for Budding Activists

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

    David Correia
    18 August 2020
    comments
    Apd_riot_cops-

    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.

    Anonymous .
    24 July 2020
    comments
    Untitled_design_%2817%29-

    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
    comments
    Fist_raised_at_protest-
    Reading List

    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.

Verso Logo
AboutBooksAuthorsBlogEvents
Terms and ConditionsFrequently Asked Questions
Sign up for our email newsletter