Police peacekeeping : the UN, Haiti, and the production of global social order /
"UN peace operations increasingly deploy police forces and engage in policing tasks. The turn to ‘police peacekeeping' has generally been met with enthusiasm in both academic and policy circles. Policing is often understood to provide a more civilian instrument of intervention, and rebuild...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2023]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "UN peace operations increasingly deploy police forces and engage in policing tasks. The turn to ‘police peacekeeping' has generally been met with enthusiasm in both academic and policy circles. Policing is often understood to provide a more civilian instrument of intervention, and rebuilding local police forces along democratic, liberal lines is seen as a prerequisite for a successful transition towards peace and stability. This book questions this optimistic reading of police peacekeeping. It demonstrates that the logic of policing leads to the depoliticization of conflict and the criminalization of those who are deemed to threaten not just public order but social order, authorizing violence against them in the name of law enforcement. The book proposes a new way of studying peace operations that focuses not on their success or failure, but on how they allow people and ideas to circulate transnationally. It shows that peace operations act as a point of cross-fertilization for the creation and transmission of policing discourses and practices globally. In so doing, these missions contribute to (re)producing social orders that are based on the exclusion of often racialized, socio-economically marginalized populations, both ‘domestically' (in countries of intervention) and ‘internationally' (in troop contributing countries). The book contributes to critical understandings of police power that show that police forces were never meant to protect all equally. Drawing on interpretive, feminist, and postcolonial methodologies that emphasize relations, processes, and situatedness, the book's in-depth study of UN intervention in Haiti shows how a single site can help illuminate global processes"--Publisher's description. |
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| Item Description: | Also issued in print: 2023. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Audience: | Specialized. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191994388 0191994383 9780198886631 0198886632 9780198886624 0198886624 |