Policing in Colonial Empires: Cases, Connections, Boundaries (Ca. 1850-1970)

ISBN-13: 9782807600645 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 253 str.

Emmanuel Blanchard; Marieke Bloembergen; Amandine Lauro

Opis

Policing in Colonial Empires is a collection of essays reflecting current, ongoing research and exploring the multifaceted dynamics of policing in colonial societies over the past two centuries. Spanning several colonial contexts, the book examines the limits and legitimacies of colonial policing.

Spis treści

Contents: Emmanuel Blanchard, Marieke Bloembergen & Amandine Lauro: Tensions of Policing in Colonial Situations - Benoît Henriet: Ordering the Wetlands. Police and Legitimate Violence in the Leverville Concession - Mark Doyle: The Perils of Impartiality: Policing Communal Violence in Victorian India, 1858-1900 - Martin Thomas: Coolies, Communists and Capital: Policing the Rubber Crash in Malaya and Indochina - Melissa Anderson: Race, Violence, and White Crime: the Limits of Assimilationism in the Saigon Colonial Police - Valentin Chémery: Policing and the Problem of Crime within Local Communities in Colonial Algeria, ca. 1850-1890-Sandra Araújo: Shaping an Empire of Predictions: the Mozambique Information Centralization and Coordination Services (1961-1974) - Robert Whitaker: From Cooperation to Neocolonialism: Colonial Police and International Policing, 1920-1960 - Søren Rud: Policing and Governance in Greenland. Rationalities of Police and Colonial Rule 1860-1953 - Sinae Hyun: Missionaries of Royalist Nationalism: Transformations of the Thai Border Patrol Police during the Cold War.

O autorze

Emmanuel Blanchard is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines and Sciences Po Saint-Germain-en-Laye. He is also a Researcher at the Center for Sociological Research on Law and Criminal Justice Institutions (CESDIP, UMR 8183, CNRS and French Ministry of Justice). His research focuses on the history of immigration and colonial policing in France and colonial North Africa.

Marieke Bloembergen is a Senior Researcher at the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies in Leiden (KITLV). Her research interests include the political dynamics of knowledge production, and biographies, histories and memories of (post-)colonial policing in (post-)colonial Indonesia in a widening, inter-Asian and global context.

Amandine Lauro is a Research Associate at the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research (F.R.S.-FNRS) at the Université libre de Bruxelles. Her research focuses on gender, race and urban policing in colonial Equatorial Africa.