The Global Making of Policing by Hönke Jana; Müller Markus-Michael;

Author:Hönke, Jana; Müller, Markus-Michael;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor and Francis

Conclusion

Several chapters in this book demonstrate that postcolonies, due to their constrained sovereignty, allow for the testing and refining of policing technologies and practices as well as the travelling of the test results back ‘home’ (Graham and Baker, this volume; Hönke and Müller, this volume; McCoy, this volume). Through the lens of Brazil’s participation in the UN peacekeeping mission MINUSTAH, this chapter has demonstrated that the conversion of postcolonies into policing laboratories is not the exclusive privilege of Western actors. Rather, reflecting a changing global geopolitical landscape, postcolonial countries like Brazil have entered the global policing lab by using other postcolonies, in this case Haiti, as veritable workshops for the testing and refining of their own ‘domestic’ policing approaches. In this regard the findings of this chapter not only highlight the need of decentring the “laboratory model” (Bilgin, this volume). They also challenge the dominant, and overly positive, assessments regarding the Brazilian MINUSTAH experience, and the ‘Brazilian way of peacekeeping’. Far from being less ‘coercive’, ‘imperialist’, or more culturally ‘sensitive’, this chapter has shown that Brazil’s MINUSTAH experience created a transnational field of urban counterinsurgent order-making through pacification-driven policing of the ‘urban other’, in Haiti and at home. And like all forms of liberal counterinsurgency, these practices are marked by the unresolvable contradiction between “illiberal methods and liberal discourse, between bloody hands and honeyed tongues, between weapons of war and emancipatory hyperbole” (Khalili, 2012: 5; see also Hönke and Müller, this volume; Laffey and Nadarajah, this volume).

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