Queer Histories and the Politics of Policing

ISBN-13: 9780367784287 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 162 str.

Emma K. Russell

Opis

This book presents an analysis of the complexities, compromises, and investments that underpin LGBT efforts to achieve sexual rights and protections. With an historical trajectory that spans the so-called "decriminalisation" era to the present day, it shows how activists have both resisted and embraced police incursions into queer space.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements

List of acronyms

List of interviews

1 Introduction: queer histories and the politics of policing

2 Policing the colony: the uneven histories of queer criminalisation

3 Over-policing and the production of good queer victims: the Tasty nightclub raid

4 ‘We don’t just want a piece of the pie; we want a whole new pie’: gay pride, pink dollars, and queer anti-capitalism

5 A new ‘feeling force’: the police commissioner goes to Pride March

6 Arresting ‘hate’: queer penalities and the take-up of a crime paradigm

7 The fabrication of queer history: narrating the police apology

8 Afterword: police power, queer resistance

Index

O autorze

Emma K. Russell is Lecturer in Crime, Justice and Legal Studies at La Trobe University, Australia. She researches in the fields of queer criminology and critical carceral studies. She is the co-author of Resisting Carceral Violence: Women’s Imprisonment and the Politics of Abolition (2018).