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SUMMARY:Black in Geography: Blackness and Policing - Dr. Wangui Kimari and
  Dr. Adam Elliot-Cooper
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DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the next session in the Black in Geography 
 student-led seminar series\, on Blackness and Policing. \n \nThe seminar t
 akes place Thursday 19 May at 4pm BST on Zoom. We will share the Zoom link
  closer to the time.\n \nThe history of policing is bound up with the hist
 ory of colonisation\, and coloniality in the present. Policing techniques 
 were central to imperial rule\, with colonisers optimising carceral techno
 logies and then exporting these to regimes and regions around the world. A
 n international trade in policies\, practices and weapons continues to sha
 pe contemporary policing. \n \nAt the same time\, the history of policing 
 is also a history of Black resistance. Black people – and in particular 
 Black women – have played a central role in struggles against carceralit
 y and policing. With visions of police abolition at the heart of movements
  for social justice\, this session explores the global geographies of poli
 cing and Black resistance. How is policing across the world still marked b
 y colonial logics? And how have different Black collectives and communitie
 s successfully fought back?\n \nOur panel features two leading academics w
 hose work examines these questions. \n \nDr. Wangui Kimari is an anthropol
 ogist whose work draws on many local histories and theoretical approaches 
 in order to think through urban spatial management in Nairobi from the van
 tage point of its most marginalized residents. She is also the participato
 ry action research coordinator for the Mathare Social Justice Centre (MSJC
 )\, a community-based organization in Mathare\, Nairobi\, and an editorial
  board member of the online publication Africa Is a Country.\n \nDr. Adam 
 Elliott-Cooper is a lecturer in the Department of Politics and Internation
 al Relations\, Queen Mary University of London. He is the author of Black 
 Resistance to British Policing (Manchester University Press\, 2021).\n \nW
 e look forward to seeing many of you there.\n\nRegister at this link: http
 s://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe_o5O3Wk6NNGdXCl-oYwv_-FdqKdHQWmPLAv
 8MCi9gXxKGmg/viewform  
LOCATION:Zoom
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