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Stuart Schrader, "Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing" (U California Press, 2019)
Stuart Schrader, "Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing" (U California Press, 2019)
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Length:
74 minutes
Released:
Nov 5, 2019
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Podcast episode
Description
Following World War II, in the midst of global decolonization and intensifying freedom struggles within its borders, the United States developed a worldwide police assistance program that aimed to crush left radicalism and extend its racial imperium. Although policing had long been part of the US colonial project, this new roving cadre of advisors funded, supplied, and trained foreign counterinsurgency forces on an unprecedented scale, developing a global cop-consciousness that spanned from Los Angeles to Saigon. In Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing (University of California Press, 2019), Stuart Schrader makes the compelling case that the growth of carceral state is just one front of a “discretionary empire” that persists today.
Badges Without Borders traces the tangled routes of police bureaucrats as they brought their munitions, methods, and money to precincts at home and abroad, and obviates the divide between “foreign” and “domestic” policy. Ultimately, Schrader suggests that US global power has relied on police reform to endlessly reproduce an ideology of “security.”
Patrick Reilly is a PhD student in US History at Vanderbilt University. He studies police, community organizations, and urban development.
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Badges Without Borders traces the tangled routes of police bureaucrats as they brought their munitions, methods, and money to precincts at home and abroad, and obviates the divide between “foreign” and “domestic” policy. Ultimately, Schrader suggests that US global power has relied on police reform to endlessly reproduce an ideology of “security.”
Patrick Reilly is a PhD student in US History at Vanderbilt University. He studies police, community organizations, and urban development.
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Released:
Nov 5, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
Dominic Pettman, “Human Error” (UMinnesota, 2011)/”Look at the Bunny” (Zero Books, 2013): “The humans are dead.” Whether or not you recognize the epigram from Flight of the Conchords (and if not, there are worse ways to spend a few minutes than by looking here, and I recommend sticking around for the “binary solo”), by New Books in Critical Theory