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  • Blue Power

    How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves

    by Stuart Schrader ...
    **A history of police unions that reveals how American law enforcement built a political movement that made cops untouchable.“A tour de force ... Read it now.” —Ruth Wilson Gilmore, author of Abolition Geography**In America today, police enjoy unmatched power. On the streets, officers employ violence at their own discretion. Behind closed doors, they are even more powerful. In city halls, police ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Badges without Borders

    How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing

    by Stuart Schrader ...
    Series Book 56 - American Crossroads
    From the Cold War through today, the U.S. has quietly assisted dozens of regimes around the world in suppressing civil unrest and securing the conditions for the smooth operation of capitalism. Casting a new light on American empire, Badges Without Borders shows, for the first time, that the very same people charged with global counterinsurgency also militarized American policing at home.In this ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Territories of Poverty

    Rethinking North and South

    by Ananya Roy, Emma Shaw Crane, Jamie Peck, Bill Maurer, Rebecca Peters, Christina Gossman, Alyosha Goldstein, Nik Theodore, Erica Kohl-Arenas0, Hiba Bou Akar1, Stephanie Ullrich2, Luis Flores3, Anh-Thi Le4, Ju Hui Judy Han5, Vincanne Adams6, Stuart Schrader7, Loïc Wacquant8, Teddy Cruz9, Akhil Gupta0, Somaya Abdelgany1, Michael Katz2 ...
    Series Book 24 - Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation
    Territories of Poverty challenges the conventional North-South geographies through which poverty scholarship is organized. Staging theoretical interventions that traverse social histories of the American welfare state and critical ethnographies of international development regimes, these essays confront how poverty is constituted as a problem. In the process, the book analyzes bureaucracies of ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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    Blue Power

    How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves

    by Stuart Schrader ...
    Narrated by Brian Arens ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 32 min

    A history of police unions that reveals how American law enforcement built a political movement that made cops untouchable.“A tour de force … Read it now.” —Ruth Wilson Gilmore, author of Abolition GeographyIn America today, police enjoy unmatched power. On the streets, officers employ violence at their own discretion. Behind closed doors, they are even more powerful. In city halls, police strong ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • Humanitarianism in Question

    Politics, Power, Ethics

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  • We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For

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