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Policing as a global form is often fraught with excessive violence, corruption, and even criminalization. These sorts of problems are especially omnipresent in postcolonial nations such as India, where Beatrice Jauregui has spent several years studying the day-to-day lives of police officers in its most populous state, Uttar Pradesh. In this book, she offers an empirically rich and theoretically innovative look at the great puzzle of police authority in contemporary India and its relationship to social order, democratic governance, and security. Jauregui explores the paradoxical demands placed on Indian police, who are at once routinely charged with abuses of authority at the same time that they are asked to extend that authority into any number of both official and unofficial tasks. Her ethnography of their everyday life and work demonstrates that police authority is provisional in several senses: shifting across time and space, subject to the availability and movement of resources, and dependent upon shared moral codes and relentless instrumental demands. In the end, she shows that police authority in India is not simply a vulgar manifestation of raw power or the violence of law but, rather, a contingent and volatile social resource relied upon in different ways to help realize human needs and desires in a pluralistic, postcolonial democracy. Provocative and compelling, Provisional Authority provides a rare and disquieting look inside the world of police in India, and shines critical light on an institution fraught with moral, legal and political contradictions.

Police --- Justice, Administration of --- Police corruption --- Social aspects --- Uttar Pradesh (India). --- India. --- authority. --- corruption. --- criminalization. --- democracy. --- policing. --- provisionality. --- security. --- violence.

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Starting in the late nineteenth century, scholars and activists all over the world suddenly began to insist that understandings of sex be based on science. As Japanese and Indian sexologists influenced their German, British, and American counterparts and vice versa, sexuality, modernity, and imaginings of exotified "Others" became intimately linked. The first anthology to provide a worldwide perspective on the birth and development of the field, A Global History of Sexual Science contends that actors outside of Europe-in Asia, Latin America, and Africa-became important interlocutors in debates on prostitution, birth control, and transvestism. Ideas circulated through intellectual exchange, travel, and internationally produced and disseminated publications. Twenty scholars tackle specific issues, including the female orgasm and the criminalization of male homosexuality, to demonstrate how concepts and ideas introduced by sexual scientists gained currency throughout the modern world.

Sexology --- Sex --- History --- 19th century. --- activist. --- africa. --- anthology. --- asia. --- biology. --- birth control. --- birth. --- contemporary. --- crime. --- criminalization. --- development. --- europe. --- european. --- female orgasm. --- global. --- human sexuality. --- international. --- latin america. --- legal issues. --- male homosexuality. --- modern world. --- other. --- others. --- prostitution. --- scholar. --- scholars. --- science. --- sex. --- sexologist. --- sexual science. --- sexual scientists. --- sexuality. --- transvestism. --- travel.

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In her exciting new book, Marisol LeBrón traces the rise of punitive governance in Puerto Rico over the course of the twentieth century and up to the present. Punitive governance emerged as a way for the Puerto Rican state to manage the deep and ongoing crises stemming from the archipelago's incorporation into the United States as a colonial territory. A structuring component of everyday life for many Puerto Ricans, police power has reinforced social inequality and worsened conditions of vulnerability in marginalized communities. This book provides powerful examples of how Puerto Ricans negotiate and resist their subjection to increased levels of segregation, criminalization, discrimination, and harm. Policing Life and Death shows how Puerto Ricans are actively rejecting punitive solutions and working toward alternative understandings of safety and a more just future.

Discrimination in law enforcement --- Discrimination in criminal justice administration --- Police-community relations --- History --- 20th century. --- alternative understandings. --- archipelago. --- colonial territory. --- criminalization. --- deep and ongoing crises. --- discrimination. --- everyday life. --- harm. --- incorporation into the united states. --- marginalized communities. --- negotiations. --- police power. --- puerto rican state. --- puerto rico. --- punitive governance. --- punitive solutions. --- safety. --- segregation. --- social inequality. --- worsened conditions.

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The impetus behind this Special Issue emerged from a quest to move beyondbinary thinking in the contemporary period about people who sell sexual services,including recent disputes about “sex trafficking vs. prostitution” and“criminalization vs. decriminalization”, to encourage theoretical and empiricalscholarship by exploring how sex work actually operates under different regulatoryregimes. The volume includes contributions from scholars of different socialsciences backgrounds based in five countries– New Zealand, the United Kingdom,Brazil, the United States and Canada. The article topics range widely,and both quantitative and qualitative research methods are showcased. The empiricalevidence presented adds to our current understanding of the complexityof this phenomenon of sex commerce/prostitution, which is found to be largelya problem of social inequality within and across capitalist societies. The authorscall for policies to address occupational and societal wide inequities faced by sexworkers across many countries.

Humanities --- Social interaction --- decriminalisation --- employment --- human rights --- sex work --- exploitation --- money --- agency --- self-care --- gender --- transgender --- subjectivity --- end demand --- violence --- police --- criminalization --- indoor sex work --- stigma --- Canada --- technology --- mental health --- job attributes --- job insecurity --- service work --- hairstyling --- governmentality --- adolescents --- anthropology --- state --- excuses --- Amazon --- consent --- chemsex --- MSW --- men who have sex with men --- MSM --- qualitative --- Grounded Theory --- labour --- vulnerability --- objectification --- feminism --- sociology of labor --- Rio de Janeiro --- New Orleans --- n/a

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The impetus behind this Special Issue emerged from a quest to move beyondbinary thinking in the contemporary period about people who sell sexual services,including recent disputes about “sex trafficking vs. prostitution” and“criminalization vs. decriminalization”, to encourage theoretical and empiricalscholarship by exploring how sex work actually operates under different regulatoryregimes. The volume includes contributions from scholars of different socialsciences backgrounds based in five countries– New Zealand, the United Kingdom,Brazil, the United States and Canada. The article topics range widely,and both quantitative and qualitative research methods are showcased. The empiricalevidence presented adds to our current understanding of the complexityof this phenomenon of sex commerce/prostitution, which is found to be largelya problem of social inequality within and across capitalist societies. The authorscall for policies to address occupational and societal wide inequities faced by sexworkers across many countries.

Humanities --- Social interaction --- decriminalisation --- employment --- human rights --- sex work --- exploitation --- money --- agency --- self-care --- gender --- transgender --- subjectivity --- end demand --- violence --- police --- criminalization --- indoor sex work --- stigma --- Canada --- technology --- mental health --- job attributes --- job insecurity --- service work --- hairstyling --- governmentality --- adolescents --- anthropology --- state --- excuses --- Amazon --- consent --- chemsex --- MSW --- men who have sex with men --- MSM --- qualitative --- Grounded Theory --- labour --- vulnerability --- objectification --- feminism --- sociology of labor --- Rio de Janeiro --- New Orleans