Refusing police power: resistances and ambivalences to state violence

Machold, R. and Sen, S. (2024) Refusing police power: resistances and ambivalences to state violence. Society and Space Open Site,

Abstract

In this forum, we take popular critiques from the majority world as our starting point for critically interrogating assumptions that police power and state violence are or should be the basis of ‘normal’ statecraft or ‘good order’. We ruminate on questions about policing’s actually-existing and future legitimacy through a transnational frame by foregrounding various refusals of it. In doing so, the forum raises new questions about how people imagine and work toward abolitionist futures in practice across diverse histories and geographic contexts.

• Item Type: Articles
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Machold, Dr Rhys
• Authors: Machold, R., and Sen, S.
• College/School: College of Social Sciences > School of Social and Political Sciences > Politics
• Journal Name: Society and Space Open Site
• Publisher: Society & Space
• Copyright Holders: Copyright © 2023 The Authors
• First Published: First published in Society and Space Open Site 22 April 2024
• Publisher Policy: Reproduced with the permission of the authors