[KS] CFP: Policing, Justice, and the Radical Imagination (Radical History Review)

Monica Kim monica.kim at nyu.edu
Wed Aug 15 16:52:40 EDT 2018


A quick note: Submissions may focus on all parts of the world during any
time period, and those that examine places outside the US and premodern
histories are especially encouraged.

*Policing, Justice, and the Radical Imagination*
Issue Co-Editors: Amy Chazkel, Monica Kim, and Naomi Paik
Issue 137
*Call for Proposals*

Radical History Review seeks proposals for contributions to a forthcoming
issue that will bring together historically oriented scholarship and
politically engaged writing that examine places and times without police.
Social movements like the Brazilian campaign Reaja ou será mort@(React or
Be Killed) and Black Lives Matter in the U.S. seek not only to redress and
prevent the harms inflicted by police and prisons, but also to reenvision
forms of social organization that do not rely on such institutions of state
violence at all. Indeed, the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL) centrally
calls for their abolition, meaning not just dismantling these institutions
of public discipline but also redistributing their capacities into
institutions of real community safety, like schools, hospitals, and public
spaces. While the idea of a world without police may appear utopian, this
issue of RHR challenges us to take this proposition seriously. What would a
world without police look like, and how might it function? How might
radical histories of policing allow us to imagine such a world?

We welcome contributions that challenge the necessity of violence and
authoritarian oversight in structuring social order, or that use historical
study to disrupt the assumption that police are necessary. This issue aims
to present a critically broadened set of political stakes, practices, and
visions in the imagining of radical alternatives, through investigations of
social peace and public discipline that existed before or against the
institutionalization of the police--those that actually existed as well as
those projected but never realized. We are interested in how people and
societies have challenged the institutionalization of policing as a natural
extension of the modern state, as well as in how different forms of
policing arose in eras before or spaces beyond the modern state.

Submissions may focus on all parts of the world during any time period, and
those that examine places outside the US and premodern histories are
especially encouraged.


Possible topics include:


   - New forms of policing and public order that have arisen during
   “transitional” moments, such as foreign occupation, decolonization or
   emancipation, or during crises like blackouts or natural disasters
   - Pre-police practices of community safety
   - What might histories of societies without police reveal about the
   relationship between policing and capitalism? What did public safety mean
   before capitalist property relations and modern state formations?
   - A world beyond police as represented in popular culture
   - Considerations of the types of social control workers who preceded,
   replaced, or acted against or alongside police, like bounty hunters, slave
   catchers, night watchmen, paramilitary actors, subcontractors, security
   guards, Minutemen, vigilantes, self-defense committees, teachers
   - Police as workers, and understanding the labor of policing in the
   context of abolitionism
   - Language and radical etymologies: What vocabularies for
   describing/imagining worlds without police have been available?


The RHR publishes material in a variety of forms. We welcome submissions
that use images as well as text. In addition to monographic articles based
on archival research, we encourage submissions to our various departments,
including: Historians at Work; Teaching Radical History;Public History;
Interviews; and (Re)Views.

By September 1, 2018, please submit a 1-2 page abstract summarizing the
article you wish as an attachment to contactrhr at gmail.com with “Issue 137
Abstract Submission” in the subject line. By November 15, 2018, authors
will be notified whether they should submit a full version of their article
for peer review. Completed articles will be due on February 15, 2019.

Those articles selected for publication after the peer review process will
be included in issue 137 of the Radical History Review, scheduled to appear
in May 2020.



Radical History Review

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Email: contactrhr at gmail.com

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Monica Kim
Assistant Professor
Department of History
New York University
53 Washington Square South, 423
New York, NY 10012
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