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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 232 pages, kõrgus x laius: 234x156 mm, 1 b/w illus
  • Ilmumisaeg: 18-Sep-2025
  • Kirjastus: Bloomsbury Academic
  • ISBN-10: 1350204080
  • ISBN-13: 9781350204089
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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 232 pages, kõrgus x laius: 234x156 mm, 1 b/w illus
  • Ilmumisaeg: 18-Sep-2025
  • Kirjastus: Bloomsbury Academic
  • ISBN-10: 1350204080
  • ISBN-13: 9781350204089
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Rethinking the philosophical grounds of police power, Melayna Lamb argues that traditional ideas of sovereignty and the law need to be radically re-evaluated. In placing police at the centre of analysis this book demonstrates the manner in which police power exists in a complex and overlapping relationship with sovereignty and law in a form which is not reducible to implementation. In doing this it argues for the centrality of order in any consideration of police and challenging a common narrative whereby a dynamic, interventionist sovereign power that follows from a belief of order as 'artificial' is replaced by a liberal, limited non-interventionist sovereign power that proceeds from a 'natural' order. Moving through thinkers such as Hobbes, Hegel and Adam Smith the book argues that police power is in fact an-archic in form, in a manner that makes it impossible to hold accountable through the law.

Lamb adopts an interdisciplinary approach that turns to philosophy to make sense of global events that see police power at their centre. This includes the history of police brutality in the US, the structural injustices made more apparent by COVID-19 and the growing calls to abolish the police.

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Melaynas Lambs groundbreaking work demonstrates that the police are never about justice but rather straddle the gap between what the law purports to be and the requirement to control various populations. Far from being a supplement to sovereign power, Lamb shows that the police are the foundation of that power. * James Martel, Professor, San Francisco State University, USA * A striking new voice in the field, Melayna Lamb develops an extraordinary theorisation of the formlessness and an-archic nature of police power. * Illan rua Wall, Professor of Law, University of Warwick, UK * In this must-read book, Lamb brings much needed philosophical precision to recent scholarship on policing. Patiently unpicking the prevalent view that police reproduce specific forms of order, Lamb charts a way past dead-end theories like the colonial boomerang to contend with the an-archy that is characteristic of police power itself. * James Trafford, Reader in Philosophy & Design, University of the Creative Arts, UK * We have seen a rush to caricature attempts to understand policing through political ontologyparticularly those under the (seemingly capacious) banner of Afro-pessimism. It is important to read A Philosophical History of Police Power as providing a corrective to this anxiously prophylactic critique. * Contemporary Political Theory * [ A] truly beautiful book The rigor and care of Lambs argument is what makes this book so successful in naming something that is so ubiquitous but disguised by the seemingly shocking notion that the police are an-archic. * Critical Legal Thinking *

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An examination of key moments in the history of Western political philosophy to unearth the relationship between police and sovereign power.

Acknowledgements

Introduction
Sovereign Police?
Oikonomia
The end of Oikonomia?
The Argument
The Structure

Prologue: Foucault, Smith and Disappearing Police
Archaeology and Order
Biopolitics, Discipline and Order
Order: Physis or Nomos?

1. Sovereignty and Fear: Hobbes and the Production of Order
The Political Animal vs. the Wolf
(Dis)order, Teleology and the Life of the State
Living and Living Well
The Splitting of Power

2. Hegel and Police: On the Relation between Universal and Particular
The Hegelian State
Hegel's Polizei
Fichte's Police
Hegel on Fichte's Police
Polizei, Police, Police-Power
Violence, Nature and Hegel's Emergency

3. Law, Sovereignty and the Exception: Benjamin and Modern Police
Schmitt's Sovereign
The Transcendent made Immanent: Benjamin's response
Violence and Critique
Benjamin's Police
Force of Law

4. The Anarchy of Order: Agamben and the Police
Divided Power and Oikonomia
Fate, Government and Collateral Effects
The Signature of Order
The An-archic Character of Police Power
Potentiality, Exceptionality, Police

5. da Silva: Nature, Necessity and Violence
The Racial and the Modern
Police Power and Colonial Boomerangs
Revisiting the State of Nature
Time and Anti-Black Violence

Concluding Remarks

Bibliography

Melayna Kay Lamb is a Lecturer at the University of Law, London, UK.