O'Reilly, C orcid.org/0000-0002-9721-2047 (2023) Emancipatory Pathways or Postcolonial Pitfalls? Navigating Policing Mobilities Through the Atlantic Archipelago of Cape Verde. In: Aliverti, A, Carvalho, H, Chamberlen, A and Sossa, M, (eds.) Decolonizing the Criminal Question: Colonial Legacies, Contemporary Problems. Oxford University Press , Oxford , pp. 219-240. ISBN 9780192899002
Abstract
By navigating global policing mobilities through the Atlantic archipelago of Cape Verde, this chapter sheds new light on how colonial legacies intersect with contemporary policing of global insecurities. It articulates evolving subaltern roles within transnational policing to illuminate a more diverse cast of global cops than previously acknowledged. It charts how Cape Verdean policing actors are increasingly more than mere passive beneficiaries for foreign security expertise that flows unidirectionally from North to South but, rather, manifest increasing agency and ambition within regional and transnational policing arrangements. In so doing, Cape Verdean policing disrupts dominant Western-centric assumptions about the unilateral nature and direction of policing and security mobilities. Indeed, whilst ostensibly peripheral to the global policing web—and much neglected within policing scholarship—this chapter spotlights how policing in this West African archipelago is, in fact, highly integrated within transnational networks. It also brings into sharp focus both the postcolonial pitfalls, and the emancipatory pathways, that are furnished through subaltern engagement with the transnational policing community.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © Conor O’Reilly 2023. This is an open access publication, available online and distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution – Non Commercial – No Derivatives 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), a copy of which is available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. |
Keywords: | Cape Verde; Africa; Decolonisation; Lusophone; Mobilities; Policing; Postcolonial; Subaltern; Transnational Policing; global security |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Law (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 10 Jul 2023 11:12 |
Last Modified: | 10 Jul 2023 11:12 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
Identification Number: | 10.1093/oso/9780192899002.003.0013 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:201299 |
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