Abstract
Introduction to the Special Issue on Capitalist World-Economy in Crisis
Highlights
Introduction to the Special IssueonVCola. 1pi|taDlOisIt 1W0.5o1r9ld5/-JEWcSoRno.1my in CrisisPolicing, Pacification, and LegitimacyWhile managing the working class has been a central concern of capitalist ruling classes throughout history, contemporary restructuring in the face of slowed growth, declining profit rates, climate change and environmental degradation makes the question of maintaining social order, and of policing, more important than ever before
We predict that policing and pacification will be expanded to manage recalcitrant populations and to shore up legitimacy for the ruling class order—all in the name of securing the decaying bourgeois social order
In the United States, scholars have called attention to the role that policing, prisons, and a growing private security industry have played in managing growing inequality structured along class, race, and gender lines
Summary
Introduction to the Special IssueonVCola. 1pi|taDlOisIt 1W0.5o1r9ld5/-JEWcSoRno.1my in CrisisPolicing, Pacification, and LegitimacyWhile managing the working class has been a central concern of capitalist ruling classes throughout history, contemporary restructuring in the face of slowed growth, declining profit rates, climate change and environmental degradation makes the question of maintaining social order, and of policing, more important than ever before. The heavy militarized response to Black Lives Matter in the United States has resonated with those in the Global South who have most starkly experienced war and police power jointly to maintain capital accumulation, squash opposition and dissidents and secure borders.
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