Review of Melayna Kay Lamb (Ed), A philosophical history of police power
Trafford, Tia (2024) Review of Melayna Kay Lamb (Ed), A philosophical history of police power. Contemporary Political Theory. ISSN 1470-8914 (Print); 1476-9336 (Electronic)
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The question of police power cannot be adequately answered through the lens of sociohistorical analysis, social control, or property protection because, as Melayna Kay Lamb makes plain, police are required to make the social formation of the modern world cohere. We have seen a rush to caricature attempts to understand policing through political ontology—particularly 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.
This version of the article has been accepted for publication, after peer review (when applicable) and is subject to Springer Nature’s AM terms of use, but is not the Version of Record and does not reflect post-acceptance improvements, or any corrections. The Version of Record is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41296-024-00736-7
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