Lou Pingeot

Police Peacekeeping

The Un, Haiti, and the Production of Global Social Order

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Produktbeschreibung

This book questions the optimistic reading of police peacekeeping often found in both academic and policy circles. Lou Pingeot provides an in-depth study of UN intervention in Haiti to show how a single site can help to shed light on how policing functions globally.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 163mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780198886617
• ISBN-10: 0198886616
• Artikelnr.: 68168755

Autorenporträt

Lou Pingeot is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Ottawa. Her research is situated at the intersection of global historical sociology, postcolonialism, and international practice theory. She is interested in the link between external and internal security and how practices and discourses of intervention circulate transnationally, with a focus on the role of police forces. She has carried out research on policing in UN peace operations and in Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction: UN peace operations, global policing, and social order
2: Beyond the here and now of peace operations
3: Protecting civilians or enforcing order?
4: Haiti as a site
5: Policing the urban poor
6: Policing dissent
7: Building peace by building prisons?
8: Conclusion