A Philosophical History of Policing
Facilitator: Elizabeth Vasileva
10-week module on Monday evenings, 7-9pm, 13th, 20th and 27th January and 3rd, 10th, 17th and 24th February and 2nd, 9th and 16th March
A course on philosophical history of policing, starting with Aristotle through Hegel, Adam Smith, Althusser, Foucault, Agamben, and others. We’ll be mostly examining the relationship between law and order, and respectively government and police, and how they are used to justify and understand police power. We will be drawing on examples from the history of British policing, but the class will primarily consist of a close reading of the primary texts