Jasbinder S Nijjar
Biographic Data
| ID | 3602790 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jasbinder S Nijjar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jasbinder S |
| FAMILY NAME | Nijjar |
| SIGNATURE | NIJJAR J S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brunel University of London |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-6844-9464 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The fallacy of an anti-racist police force
This article unpacks the Metropolitan Police’s current aim to rebrand itself as an ‘anti-racist organisation’ via its London Race Action Plan , published following Louise Casey’s review into its toxic institutional culture. The author argues that this move reflects a broader neoliberal drive to recast the machinery of structural racism as anti-racist and to create public doubt over what constitutes anti-racism, amid a ‘post-race’ mythology in pro…
De(‐)Meaning Anti‐Racism
Following David Theo Goldberg's astute insights, this article discusses a form of neoliberal authoritarianism that extends incessant denial of systematic racial degradation by de(-)meaning anti-racism. It argues that de(-)meaning works to redefine anti-racist struggle-including demands for a free Palestine and scholarship explaining the politics of racism-as racist and hostile, while recasting racialised and militarised state power as anti-racist…
Resisting Neoliberalism's War on the Sociological Imagination
This article reflects on undertaking PhD work as a form of anti-racist practice from an angle with significant promise for sociology and the social more generally. I argue that amid neoliberalism's denial of structural discrimination and its attendant war on the sociological imagination, radical possibilities permeate PhD scholarship. They include extending the sociological imagination into the radical imagination via histories of power and resis…
Our History Has Always Been Contraband
Post-racial politics, pre-emption and in/security
Militarized policing strategies aiming to identify and nullify risks to national security in Western nations have become central to the biopolitical regulation of racialized populations. While the disproportionate impact of pre-emptive counter-terrorism policing on ‘Muslim’ populations has been highlighted, the post-racial techno-politics of predictive policing as a mode of securitization remain overlooked. This article argues that the ‘war on te…
Racial warfare and the biopolitics of policing
In the years since the landmark Macpherson Report (1999) recognised London’s Metropolitan Police as ‘institutionally racist’, senior police officers and politicians in Britain have regularly reduced racism in policing to a problem of the past. This article examines police as a state institution where the politics of racism not only persist but do so coterminous with those of war. In doing so, I argue that policing is a biopolitical institution, t…
Baptised by fire
In this contribution to narrating the black British history of struggle, one of the leading lights of community-based anti-racism, who has worked over four decades from Southall, west of London and one of the first post-war settlements of ‘New Commonwealth’ Asian workers, is interviewed. He records some of the milestone struggles of The Monitoring Group from the street campaigning against lethal racist violence in the 1970s to the nationally impo…
Police–school partnerships and the war on black youth
This article discusses the growing presence of police officers in British schools, under a resurgent police–school partnerships policy agenda in the ‘war on gangs’ and serious youth violence. It argues that while efforts to coordinate law enforcement and education implicate schools in general, evidence on race and policing raises concerns about the disproportionate impact of such strategies on black students. Police–school partnerships enhance ex…
Southall
23 April 2019 marks forty years since the murder of Blair Peach, who was a teacher and anti-racist activist killed by police in Southall, West London while protesting against the far Right's attack on the town. In the spirit of what Howard Zinn called 'radical history', this article recalls the violent events in Southall four decades ago, with a view to discussing their significance for anti-racist practice today and their roots in colonial occup…
The racialized surveillant assemblage
Increasingly intense, multifaceted, and integrated forms of surveillance are a central feature of Western national security attempts to counter the violence of “Islamic terrorism.” However, there has been a lack of research examining contemporary regimes of surveillance as profoundly racialized. This study examines how counterterrorism efforts are underpinned by ill-conceived accounts of radicalization that preemptively construct Muslim migrants …
The End of Policing
Menacing Youth' and 'Broken Families
This paper utilises moral panic theory and critical discourse analysis to examine the coverage of the 2011 English riots in the British newspaper, the Daily Express. Findings show that the Daily Express drew on two previous moral panics concerning youngsters and family life to diagnose the riots as a consequence of youth criminality and poor parenting. The newspaper identified young people as folk devils of the unrest by adopting discourses which…
The racialized surveillant assemblage
Increasingly intense, multifaceted, and integrated forms of surveillance are a central feature of Western national security attempts to counter the violence of “Islamic terrorism.” However, there has been a lack of research examining contemporary regimes of surveillance as profoundly racialized. This study examines how counterterrorism efforts are underpinned by ill-conceived accounts of radicalization that preemptively construct Muslim migrants …
Racial warfare and the biopolitics of policing
In the years since the landmark Macpherson Report (1999) recognised London’s Metropolitan Police as ‘institutionally racist’, senior police officers and politicians in Britain have regularly reduced racism in policing to a problem of the past. This article examines police as a state institution where the politics of racism not only persist but do so coterminous with those of war. In doing so, I argue that policing is a biopolitical institution, t…
Police–school partnerships and the war on black youth
This article discusses the growing presence of police officers in British schools, under a resurgent police–school partnerships policy agenda in the ‘war on gangs’ and serious youth violence. It argues that while efforts to coordinate law enforcement and education implicate schools in general, evidence on race and policing raises concerns about the disproportionate impact of such strategies on black students. Police–school partnerships enhance ex…
Southall
23 April 2019 marks forty years since the murder of Blair Peach, who was a teacher and anti-racist activist killed by police in Southall, West London while protesting against the far Right's attack on the town. In the spirit of what Howard Zinn called 'radical history', this article recalls the violent events in Southall four decades ago, with a view to discussing their significance for anti-racist practice today and their roots in colonial occup…
Menacing Youth' and 'Broken Families
This paper utilises moral panic theory and critical discourse analysis to examine the coverage of the 2011 English riots in the British newspaper, the Daily Express. Findings show that the Daily Express drew on two previous moral panics concerning youngsters and family life to diagnose the riots as a consequence of youth criminality and poor parenting. The newspaper identified young people as folk devils of the unrest by adopting discourses which…
Resisting Neoliberalism's War on the Sociological Imagination
This article reflects on undertaking PhD work as a form of anti-racist practice from an angle with significant promise for sociology and the social more generally. I argue that amid neoliberalism's denial of structural discrimination and its attendant war on the sociological imagination, radical possibilities permeate PhD scholarship. They include extending the sociological imagination into the radical imagination via histories of power and resis…
Post-racial politics, pre-emption and in/security
Militarized policing strategies aiming to identify and nullify risks to national security in Western nations have become central to the biopolitical regulation of racialized populations. While the disproportionate impact of pre-emptive counter-terrorism policing on ‘Muslim’ populations has been highlighted, the post-racial techno-politics of predictive policing as a mode of securitization remain overlooked. This article argues that the ‘war on te…
Menacing Youth' and 'Broken Families
This paper utilises moral panic theory and critical discourse analysis to examine the coverage of the 2011 English riots in the British newspaper, the Daily Express. Findings show that the Daily Express drew on two previous moral panics concerning youngsters and family life to diagnose the riots as a consequence of youth criminality and poor parenting. The newspaper identified young people as folk devils of the unrest by adopting discourses which…
The racialized surveillant assemblage
Increasingly intense, multifaceted, and integrated forms of surveillance are a central feature of Western national security attempts to counter the violence of “Islamic terrorism.” However, there has been a lack of research examining contemporary regimes of surveillance as profoundly racialized. This study examines how counterterrorism efforts are underpinned by ill-conceived accounts of radicalization that preemptively construct Muslim migrants …
The End of Policing
Southall
23 April 2019 marks forty years since the murder of Blair Peach, who was a teacher and anti-racist activist killed by police in Southall, West London while protesting against the far Right's attack on the town. In the spirit of what Howard Zinn called 'radical history', this article recalls the violent events in Southall four decades ago, with a view to discussing their significance for anti-racist practice today and their roots in colonial occup…
Baptised by fire
In this contribution to narrating the black British history of struggle, one of the leading lights of community-based anti-racism, who has worked over four decades from Southall, west of London and one of the first post-war settlements of ‘New Commonwealth’ Asian workers, is interviewed. He records some of the milestone struggles of The Monitoring Group from the street campaigning against lethal racist violence in the 1970s to the nationally impo…
Police–school partnerships and the war on black youth
This article discusses the growing presence of police officers in British schools, under a resurgent police–school partnerships policy agenda in the ‘war on gangs’ and serious youth violence. It argues that while efforts to coordinate law enforcement and education implicate schools in general, evidence on race and policing raises concerns about the disproportionate impact of such strategies on black students. Police–school partnerships enhance ex…
Racial warfare and the biopolitics of policing
In the years since the landmark Macpherson Report (1999) recognised London’s Metropolitan Police as ‘institutionally racist’, senior police officers and politicians in Britain have regularly reduced racism in policing to a problem of the past. This article examines police as a state institution where the politics of racism not only persist but do so coterminous with those of war. In doing so, I argue that policing is a biopolitical institution, t…
Post-racial politics, pre-emption and in/security
Militarized policing strategies aiming to identify and nullify risks to national security in Western nations have become central to the biopolitical regulation of racialized populations. While the disproportionate impact of pre-emptive counter-terrorism policing on ‘Muslim’ populations has been highlighted, the post-racial techno-politics of predictive policing as a mode of securitization remain overlooked. This article argues that the ‘war on te…
Our History Has Always Been Contraband
Resisting Neoliberalism's War on the Sociological Imagination
This article reflects on undertaking PhD work as a form of anti-racist practice from an angle with significant promise for sociology and the social more generally. I argue that amid neoliberalism's denial of structural discrimination and its attendant war on the sociological imagination, radical possibilities permeate PhD scholarship. They include extending the sociological imagination into the radical imagination via histories of power and resis…
The fallacy of an anti-racist police force
This article unpacks the Metropolitan Police’s current aim to rebrand itself as an ‘anti-racist organisation’ via its London Race Action Plan , published following Louise Casey’s review into its toxic institutional culture. The author argues that this move reflects a broader neoliberal drive to recast the machinery of structural racism as anti-racist and to create public doubt over what constitutes anti-racism, amid a ‘post-race’ mythology in pro…
De(‐)Meaning Anti‐Racism
Following David Theo Goldberg's astute insights, this article discusses a form of neoliberal authoritarianism that extends incessant denial of systematic racial degradation by de(-)meaning anti-racism. It argues that de(-)meaning works to redefine anti-racist struggle-including demands for a free Palestine and scholarship explaining the politics of racism-as racist and hostile, while recasting racialised and militarised state power as anti-racist…
Sociology (10 works) · Criminology (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (6 works) · Racism (5 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Policing Practices and Perceptions (4 works)