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... that is manifested in the inordinately high number of police officers who are killed each year. In this chapter, the contemporary history of the armed wings of the informal and illicit economies, and how they have overwhelmed the police, are explored. informal policing drug economies regulation of informal...

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.... This chapter exposes the fabricated nature of excited delirium syndrome, its entanglement with the medicalizing of police killings, and how corporate interests drive these practices. Guided by Afro-Latiné religious traditions and decolonial approaches to social scientific knowledge, the author launches...

... The chapter examines the response to George Perry Floyd's 2020 killing and the unsettling utilization of excited delirium syndrome in the defense of the officers involved. This chapter highlights how Floyd's death brought police abolition into mainstream discourse, offering it as an option...

... on a wider pattern of collusion between paramedics and police in the criminalization of Black people, this chapter argues that excited delirium is not a syndrome; rather, it must be understood as the White gaze that dehumanizes Black people and enables the systemic perpetuation of racialized killings...

... a theory of the night that could account for this nocturnal politics, which has historically allowed violence to persist without adequate critique. The chapter links the history of controlling the movement of Black people at night and their access to arms to contemporary police and vigilante killings...

... and civil war often transpired in the streets: the Batista regime alternately compelled, and then cancelled, carnival; urban guerillas fomented insurrection there; in reprisal, Batista’s police killed opponents and dumped their bodies in city streets and rural roadways; Archbishop Enrique Pérez Serantes...

... compelled, and then cancelled, carnival; urban guerillas fomented insurrection there; in reprisal, Batista’s police killed opponents and dumped their bodies in city streets and rural roadways; Archbishop Enrique Pérez Serantes decried the violence in Santiago’s now sinister, near-empty streets; the funeral...

..., it engaged in targeted killings of “criminals” in the so-called Petrus campaign; and second, it put in place Siskamling, a new way of organizing the local security apparatus that gave police increased oversight of neighborhood watches and the growing cadre of private security guards. In effect, these two...

... in targeted killings of “criminals” in the so-called Petrus campaign; and second, it put in place Siskamling, a new way of organizing the local security apparatus that gave police increased oversight of neighborhood watches and the growing cadre of private security guards. In effect, these two prongs were...

..., California, by transit police, and Neda Agha-Soltan, a young Iranian woman killed in Tehran during a protest of that year’s elections. Put to use by activists, these two sets of videos achieved disparate levels of success in raising awareness about their injustices. The chapter argues that YouTube’s failure...

... Territories of the Soul concludes with an epilogue that brings us to another kind of Jamaican blackspace, this time in Kingston. Through an astonishing set of artworks by Ebony Patterson the author reads the week in May 2010 when Jamaican police and military forces entered the community...

... that enable it—such as the inaction and complicity of the state, police, and judiciary—and also show how such violence is normalized as it becomes part of gendering the population through a violent right-wing patriarchy. Such gendering produces Hindu patriarchy able to violently subjugate Muslim women and men...

... The coda grapples with the grammar of black futurity at a crucial historical juncture that has witnessed a string of hauntingly similar killings of unarmed black men at the hands of or in the custody of police. It assesses the frequency of a set of (self-)identification photographs: Tumblr...

... in the mainstream media as honor killings and argues that the invisibility of other kinds of femicides, such as those resulting from domestic violence, sex workers, or indigenous women signals the taken for granted nature of these crimes. In contrast, honor killings are rendered intelligible through the sheer...

... Charles Wetli inaccurately labeled the deaths of Black women and girls killed by a serial killer in Miami in the late 1980s as “cocaine-sex deaths.” Drawing inspiration from the Combahee River Collective's intersectional feminist framework that first called attention to the serial killing...