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LAWS 5306

Police and Capital

0.5 credit · Graduate

The idea of `police' as a general historical project aimed at the fabrication of social order and the development of liberal philosophy, political economy and security. Contemporary public and private security provision considered in light of commodification, class conflict, and risk thinking.

2025

Topics

  • (*) denotes suggested
  • What is ‘Police and Capital’? (Rigakos) [Sep. 8]
  • Capitalist Production (Rigakos) [Sep. 15]
  • Surplus Value. (Marxists.org)
  • Economics, 32(2):61-73
  • labour, History of Political Economy, 17(4): 591-618.
  • Perspectives on the History of Economic Thought. Aldershot: Gower.
  • Marx, Karl. 1976, orig. 1867. Capital, vol.1.
  • Penguin.

Readings

  • Rigakos, George S., John L. McMullan, Joshua Johnson and Gulden Ozcan, Eds., A General Police System: Political Economy and Security in the Age of Enlightenment. Ottawa:
  • Red Quill Books, 2009.
  • The Anti-security Collective. The Security Abolition Manifesto. Ottawa: Red Quill Books, 2024.
  • Neocleous, Mark and George S. Rigakos, Eds. Anti-security. Ottawa: Red Quill Books, 2011.

Prerequisites & course information

Also listed as SOCI 5305 .

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