Christopher Mcmichael
Biographic Data
| ID | 3673781 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher Mcmichael |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcmichael |
| SIGNATURE | MCMICHAEL C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Witwatersrand |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The truth about crime
In The Truth about Crime, Jean and John Comaroff undertake the ambitious task of detailing a criminal anthropology of late modernity. Their key argument is that a heightened sense of risk and insec
Pacification and police
The article offers a critique of the 'militarization of the police' discourse, which has gained substantial attention in both academia and the media. Particularly influential in the United States, proponents of this concept claim that the 'traditional' boundaries between war and policing are blurring. However, this concept is both historically and politically problematic. The fact that right-wing libertarians have been at the forefront of calling…
Police wars and state repression in South Africa
This article presents an analysis of police violence in contemporary South Africa and it is argued that this violence is aimed at upholding an unequal social order. Recent years have seen an alarming rise in the number of deaths and assaults at the hands of the police. Much academic, media and civil society commentary has blamed this on an apparent program of police 'remilitarization'. Despite its critical tone much of this commentary upholds tha…
Urban Pacification and “Blitzes” in Contemporary Johannesburg
The term pacification is regularly used in urban scholarship as a euphemism for state violence and social control. However, this term is used loosely and is underexplored as a concept. This paper aims to address this gap by discussing recent critical theory on pacification, which argues that the term captures the combination of war and police power in the replication of capitalist order. This concept will then be applied to a case study of “blitz…
Sporting Mega-Events and South-to-South Security Exchanges
The FIFA World Cup and the Summer Olympics are the most prestigious major sporting events in the world, and host governments implement security measures to match this stature. While global concerns about terrorism have led to a dramatic upsurge in the extent of security measures, the perceived threat of urban crime is becoming an increasingly prominent cause for apprehension. This has been of particular importance to South Africa’s recent 2010 Wo…
Hosting the world’
Using the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa as a case study, this paper will explore how security measures for sports mega-events have been steadily militarized with policing operations comparable to war planning. It will be argued that this is representative of the ‘new military urbanism’ in which everyday urban life is rendered as a site of ubiquitous risk leading to the increased diffusion of military tactics and doctrines in policing and po…
Pacification and police
The article offers a critique of the 'militarization of the police' discourse, which has gained substantial attention in both academia and the media. Particularly influential in the United States, proponents of this concept claim that the 'traditional' boundaries between war and policing are blurring. However, this concept is both historically and politically problematic. The fact that right-wing libertarians have been at the forefront of calling…
Urban Pacification and “Blitzes” in Contemporary Johannesburg
The term pacification is regularly used in urban scholarship as a euphemism for state violence and social control. However, this term is used loosely and is underexplored as a concept. This paper aims to address this gap by discussing recent critical theory on pacification, which argues that the term captures the combination of war and police power in the replication of capitalist order. This concept will then be applied to a case study of “blitz…
Hosting the world’
Using the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa as a case study, this paper will explore how security measures for sports mega-events have been steadily militarized with policing operations comparable to war planning. It will be argued that this is representative of the ‘new military urbanism’ in which everyday urban life is rendered as a site of ubiquitous risk leading to the increased diffusion of military tactics and doctrines in policing and po…
Police wars and state repression in South Africa
This article presents an analysis of police violence in contemporary South Africa and it is argued that this violence is aimed at upholding an unequal social order. Recent years have seen an alarming rise in the number of deaths and assaults at the hands of the police. Much academic, media and civil society commentary has blamed this on an apparent program of police 'remilitarization'. Despite its critical tone much of this commentary upholds tha…
Sporting Mega-Events and South-to-South Security Exchanges
The FIFA World Cup and the Summer Olympics are the most prestigious major sporting events in the world, and host governments implement security measures to match this stature. While global concerns about terrorism have led to a dramatic upsurge in the extent of security measures, the perceived threat of urban crime is becoming an increasingly prominent cause for apprehension. This has been of particular importance to South Africa’s recent 2010 Wo…
Hosting the world’
Using the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa as a case study, this paper will explore how security measures for sports mega-events have been steadily militarized with policing operations comparable to war planning. It will be argued that this is representative of the ‘new military urbanism’ in which everyday urban life is rendered as a site of ubiquitous risk leading to the increased diffusion of military tactics and doctrines in policing and po…
Sporting Mega-Events and South-to-South Security Exchanges
The FIFA World Cup and the Summer Olympics are the most prestigious major sporting events in the world, and host governments implement security measures to match this stature. While global concerns about terrorism have led to a dramatic upsurge in the extent of security measures, the perceived threat of urban crime is becoming an increasingly prominent cause for apprehension. This has been of particular importance to South Africa’s recent 2010 Wo…
Urban Pacification and “Blitzes” in Contemporary Johannesburg
The term pacification is regularly used in urban scholarship as a euphemism for state violence and social control. However, this term is used loosely and is underexplored as a concept. This paper aims to address this gap by discussing recent critical theory on pacification, which argues that the term captures the combination of war and police power in the replication of capitalist order. This concept will then be applied to a case study of “blitz…
Police wars and state repression in South Africa
This article presents an analysis of police violence in contemporary South Africa and it is argued that this violence is aimed at upholding an unequal social order. Recent years have seen an alarming rise in the number of deaths and assaults at the hands of the police. Much academic, media and civil society commentary has blamed this on an apparent program of police 'remilitarization'. Despite its critical tone much of this commentary upholds tha…
Pacification and police
The article offers a critique of the 'militarization of the police' discourse, which has gained substantial attention in both academia and the media. Particularly influential in the United States, proponents of this concept claim that the 'traditional' boundaries between war and policing are blurring. However, this concept is both historically and politically problematic. The fact that right-wing libertarians have been at the forefront of calling…
The truth about crime
In The Truth about Crime, Jean and John Comaroff undertake the ambitious task of detailing a criminal anthropology of late modernity. Their key argument is that a heightened sense of risk and insec
Political science (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Criminology (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Policing Practices and Perceptions (3 works) · Political economy (3 works) · Economics (2 works) · Geography (2 works)