Police Peacekeeping
The UN, Haiti, and the Production of Global Social Order
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 26 September 2023
- ISBN 9780198886617
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages304 pages
- Size 242x164x23 mm
- Weight 616 g
- Language English 440
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Short description:
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.
MoreLong description:
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, and is often understood to provide a more civilian instrument of intervention, better suited to mandates that increasingly emphasize protection. Rebuilding local police forces along democratic, liberal lines is seen as a prerequisite for a successful transition towards peace and stability. In this book, Lou Pingeot questions this optimistic reading of police peacekeeping, and 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.
Police Peacekeeping 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 draws on and contributes to critical understandings of police power that show that police forces were never meant to protect all equally. It also furthers our understanding of policing at a global level.
Drawing on interpretive, feminist, and postcolonial methodologies that emphasize relations, processes, and situatedness, Lou Pingeot's in-depth study of UN intervention in Haiti shows how a single site can help illuminate global processes. Rather than starting from Haiti's supposed deviance from international expectations and norms, she posits that Haiti can reveal a great deal about how policing functions globally.
Police Peacekeeping demonstrates how the field-based activities of peacekeeping missions -- as opposed to simply their mandated limitations -- could be productively understood in conversation with the recent wave of abolitionist scholarship. In doing so, Pingeot's book thus joins a strong group of existing historical, IR, and socio-legal literature that has begun to examine long lineages of policing in the West. Police Peacekeeping provides a crucial new dimension to these largely domestic studies by tracking the globalization of policing methods through the humanitarian guise of UN peacekeeping.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: UN peace operations, global policing, and social order
Beyond the here and now of peace operations
Protecting civilians or enforcing order?
Haiti as a site
Policing the urban poor
Policing dissent
Building peace by building prisons?
Conclusion
