Ethnographies of Global Policing

Steinberg, Jonny

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“…In the last decade or so, it has become a consensus in the fi eldregardless of one's theoretical perspective-that policing is much more than uniformed personnel patrolling the streets. By making eth-nographically visible that which policing does and produces, ethnographers have provided insightful understandings of mundane forms of order-making, statecraft , and governance (see Karpiak and Garriott 2018;Martin 2018;and Steinberg 2020 for an overview).…”

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F*ck the Police!

Alves¹

2021

Focaal

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On the morning of 6 May 2021, the military police invaded the favela of Jacarezinho, one of Rio de Janeiro's slums, and killed 28 people during a military operation tellingly named Operation Exceptis. Photos of dead bodies in the alleys of the favela and denouncements of extrajudicial executions of individuals who had already surrendered circulated widely on the internet. Jacarezinho adds to a troubling record of police killings that includes and goes far beyond the 1992 Massacre of Carandiru, when 111 prisoners were slaughtered by São Paulo's police during a prison riot, and the equally infamous 2006 Crimes of May, when at least six hundred civilians were killed within the span of one week (Mães de Maio 2019). While human rights organizations denounced the Jacarezinho massacre for what it was, the police argued that “the only execution that took place was that of the police, unfortunately. The other deaths that happened were those of traffickers who attacked the lives of policemen and were neutralized” (Betim 2021). On a social media network, President Jair Bolsonaro praised “all the warriors who risk their lives in the daily mission to protect the good people,” and lamented that instead of honoring the life of the officer killed during the operation, human rights activists were treating “criminals who steal, kill, and destroy families” (Veja 2021) as innocent victims.

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Alves¹

2021

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“…22There has been something of a resurgence in police ethnographies of late, building on a rich tradition in the United States and the UK, especially (e.g., Martin 2018; Steinberg 2020). …”

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Eating pizza in prison

Willis

2022

American Ethnologist

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Police work is obviously a question of pursuing subjects. In postslave societies, one figure dominates; police are always after the young Black man. Meanwhile, another distinctive subject of policing exists. In São Paulo, Brazil, police detectives are also worried about the failing White father. He represents a crucial kind of problem: he weakens whiteness by subjecting White children to the indignities that Black children face. His punishment is not incarceration, however. Instead, his punishment is a question of civility and reparation, of being "pedagogical." Attention to police officers' decision-making about these two subjects of everyday policing shows how the long-standing fallacy of the idealized White family is produced by extracting from the Black family. It reveals the logic of differentiated punishment-civil and reparative punishment for White men, life in prison or death for Black men and boys-as a mechanism in the constant remediation of whiteness as property and accumulation. [whiteness, policing, punishment, men, family, child support, race, São Paulo, Brazil]

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Policing Pastime: Child Audiences, Cinemas and the Segregation of Leisure in South Africa

Pinto de Almeida

2023

Childhoods &Amp; Leisure

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Ethnographies of Global Policing

Cited by 6 publications

References 39 publications

F*ck the Police!

F*ck the Police!

Eating pizza in prison

Policing Pastime: Child Audiences, Cinemas and the Segregation of Leisure in South Africa

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