Racialized Policing: New Paradigms, Alternative Futures

Where did police forces as we know them come from? What does policing police in the first place? How might the bodies targeted by policing escape, or elude, its nebulous powers? Can policing escape its oppressive pasts—and racialized origins? The answers to these questions all depend on when and where we are looking from. They depend on tangled histories, figures, images, words.

This one-day conference will explore new paradigms for the study of racialized policing, how they are challenged, and possibilities to supersede them. The conference will emphasize the importance of locating the history of policing within a global frame, moving away from the nation state to address the legacies of colonialism and empire and processes of dispossession and capital formation.

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