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Past conversations and analyses, organized so that you can follow issues across time.
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O.4 — The Dangerous Classes: How Victorian Britain Invented an Internal Enemy (Part 2)
Crisis governance begins with classification. When pressure rises, the state doesn’t improvise — it sorts.
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O.4 — The Dangerous Classes: How Victorian Britain Invented an Internal Enemy (Part 1)
Discover how Victorian Britain used the myth of “dangerous classes” to justify new policing, surveillance, and social control — a blueprint that still shapes policing today.
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O.3 — The Racial Infrastructure of Policing: Empire’s Logic at Home (Part 7)
The afterlife of empire is not a metaphor, it’s the organising logic of modern British policing
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O.3 — The Racial Infrastructure of Policing: Empire’s Logic at Home (Part 6)
How the governing logic of British policing has remained structurally consistent across time — even if the language has shifted
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O.3 — The Racial Infrastructure of Policing: Empire’s Logic at Home (Part 5)
The history of racialised policing in Britain is not only a history of harm imposed and endured. It is also a history of sustained, organised, and often courageous resistance.
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O.3 — The Racial Infrastructure of Policing: Empire’s Logic at Home (Part 4)
Racialised policing is not accidental. It is the afterlife of empire, built into systems, categories, and everyday practice. Understanding this history is key to change.
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O.3 — The Racial Infrastructure of Policing: Empire’s Logic at Home (Part 3)
Race was not incidental to British policing, it was architectural — built into the frameworks, categories, and professional cultures through which policing has operated since its imperial foundations were laid.
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O.3 — The Racial Infrastructure of Policing: Empire’s Logic at Home (Part 2)
When large-scale migration, primarily from the Caribbean, South Asia, and Africa began after the Second World War, British institutions were not encountering difference for the first time.
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O.3 — The Racial Infrastructure of Policing: Empire’s Logic at Home (Part 1)
From ‘criminal tribes’ to ‘high risk communities,’ racial tropes built in empire still shape policing today
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