Insecure guardians: enforcement, encounters and everyday policing in post-colonial Karachi
In: Comparative politics and international studies series
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In: Comparative politics and international studies series
In: Security dialogue
ISSN: 1460-3640
How do elite interests intersect with inequality in postcolonial state institutions and shape the consumption and provision of public services such as policing and security? Drawing upon ethnographic fieldwork in Pakistan, this article explores how subordinate officers experience insecurity within postcolonial policing structures owing to class-based hierarchical divisions, and analyses how these conditions shape their experiences, relationships and performances. I argue that structural inequalities within public institutions, influenced by private interests of external actors, compel subordinates to strategically operationalize informality in policework, deploying it in the service of influential actors and institutions. Furthermore, these subordinates rely upon informal networks and practices to appear indispensable and subvert the hierarchy, securing greater personal and professional gains and steering past class-based constraints. This 'strategic informality' enables the rank and file to relationally and procedurally navigate otherwise rigid hierarchical institutional structures that suppress them. In exploring how insecurity and inequality, within and beyond policing institutions, in the context of blurred public–private security divides, necessitates reliance upon informality, and what impacts this has, this article makes a critical contribution to scholarship on security provision in postcolonial contexts.
In: Social & legal studies: an international journal, Band 33, Heft 4, S. 677-680
ISSN: 1461-7390
In: Political and legal anthropology review: PoLAR, Band 46, Heft 1, S. 128-134
ISSN: 1555-2934
In: Journal of urban affairs, Band 46, Heft 8, S. 1547-1569
ISSN: 1467-9906
In: Policing and society: an international journal of research and policy, Band 31, Heft 5, S. 583-600
ISSN: 1477-2728
In: Policing and society: an international journal of research and policy, Band 31, Heft 2, S. 131-147
ISSN: 1477-2728
In: World development: the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development, Band 183, S. 106735
Postcolonial legacies continue to impact upon the Global South and this edited collection examines their influence on systems of policing, security management and social ordering. Expanding the Southern Criminology agenda, the book critically examines social harms, violence and war crimes, human rights abuses, environmental degradation and the criminalization of protest. The book asks how current states of policing came about, their consequences and whose interests they continue to serve through vivid international case studies, including prison struggles in Latin America and the misuse of military force. Challenging current criminological thinking on the Global South, the book considers how police and state overreach can undermine security and perpetuate racism and social conflict.
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Post-colonial legacies continue to impact upon the Global South and this edited collection examines their influence on systems of policing, security management and social ordering. Expanding the Southern Criminology agenda, the book critically examines social harms, violence and war crimes, human rights abuses, environmental degradation and the criminalisation of protest. The book asks how current states of policing came about, their consequences and whose interests they continue to serve through vivid international case studies, including prison struggles in Latin America and the misuse of military force. Challenging current criminological thinking on the Global South, the book considers how police and state overreach can undermine security and perpetuate racism and social conflict.