{"product_id":"pacification-social-war-and-the-power-of-police-9781804294017","title":"Pacification: Social War and the Power of Police","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis provocative book offers the first sustained critique of the theory and practice of pacification\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn his new book, critical theorist Mark Neocleous engages in a sustained critique of the theory and practice of pacification. Combining philosophical analysis with historical detail, Neocleous analyses the development of pacification as a key concept through which capitalist modernity has been organized, offering readers the first book that treats pacification as an important concept in the history of state power and capitalism. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNeocleous's approach is fourfold, examining pacification as social warfare carried out through the ideology of peace; as a form of social police carried out through mechanisms of security; as law and order exercised through the permanent wars of class society; and as the myriad practices of power designed to counter insurgency. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMaking use of official documents of state, the writings of counterinsurgency thinkers and the ideas perpetuated by practitioners of counterrevolution, the book unravels the complex ways through which pacification generates new forms of social war and new modes of policing that reproduce capitalist order and fabricate obedient subjects. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough expansive accounts of war and police, and engaging with a range of topics from debt to death, from \u003ci\u003estasis\u003c\/i\u003e to civil war, and from the police kettle to the politics of fear, the book offers a provocative analysis of the ways in which state and capital combine to build a pacified social order.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMark Neocleous\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of the Critique of Political Economy at Brunel University London. He is the author of many books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Politics of Immunity: Security and the Policing of Bodies\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Critical Theory of Police Power\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eWar Power, Police Power\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51253970764050,"sku":"9781804294017","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_72a1e643-afe8-476b-8b59-e2716c971806.jpg?v=1746301813","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/pacification-social-war-and-the-power-of-police-9781804294017","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}