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Author_Jasbinder S. Nijjar
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institutional racism
Macpherson Report
Metropolitan Police
militarisation
precrime policing
surveillance
war on gangs
war on terror
Product details
- ISBN 9781526174420
- Weight: 601g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 05 May 2026
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Amid renewed anti-racist resistance to violent policing, The racial politics of police warfare unpacks the racisms that rationalise militarised policing in contemporary Britain. Jasbinder S. Nijjar shatters prevailing myths about British police as an impartial public service, by revealing it as an institution where racism and war reinforce one another. In examining flagship anti-gang and counter-terrorism policies and practices, the book offers a unique analysis of the relationship between anti-Black and anti-Muslim racisms, to demonstrate how racialised populations are institutionalised as common enemies of modernity. Combining perspectives from sociology, history, criminology and social policy, Nijjar illustrates how British policing defends law and order and national security from the perceived threat of race through hyper-intrusive, pre-emptive and deathly measures. Accordingly, he gives a fresh take on resisting racial police warfare, calling for strategies that are at once political, collective, anti-militaristic and abolitionist.
Jasbinder S. Nijjar is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Social and Political Sciences Department at Brunel University of London.
