"Insecure Guardians" is now out in paperback! The book critically analyzes policing in Karachi, providing ethnographic insights into an institution plagued with varied levels of corruption, violence, militarism. 1/n @HurstPublishershurstpublishers.com/book/insecure-… IG argues that the police in Pakistan are a powerful but nervous entity, operating under a state that is insecure about its legitimacy/authority and internal resistance, which then strategically chooses to retain a colonial structure of policing, coercion and control... 2/n

Some excellent research has been published over the past few years on #policing and #militarisation that, given the recent events in the #US (and beyond), and subsequent debates on policing, deserves to be curated. A thread on some relevant scholarship from around the world. 1/n Let's begin with the #US, where @Peterkraska has guided much of the contemporary research on the militarisation of civilian policing. Here's an article by Kapeller & Kraska on normalising police militarisation (a response to Garth den Heyer’s critique) tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108… 2/n