Maureen Mansfield Maureen Mansfield

‘Aftermath’ by Preti Taneja

Aftermath starts with grief and shock, a violent act that has left many calling for an intensification of the punitive state. Taneja has resisted this and has instead recommitted herself to abolition which for her, ‘in the widest sense and at the cellular level is a word, a world, a choice to make. A resonance to action’

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Maureen Mansfield Maureen Mansfield

Cops in Culture #7: Prime Suspect

Prime Suspect 3 (1993) is some of the most deliberately and pointedly political police procedural drama ever made for TV. Clair Quentin discusses its politics of trans representation.

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Maureen Mansfield Maureen Mansfield

Cops in Culture #6: Twin Peaks

There’s something about Twin Peaks’ Dale Cooper which has rendered him, at least in certain circles of the anti-cop left, somewhat of an exception — a kind of solitary good apple. But why? And is this exception justified?

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Maureen Mansfield Maureen Mansfield

Cops in Culture #5: The Police and Prisons in our Picture Books

Children’s picture books help young people grow their understanding of self and the world that surrounds them. In doing so, they may replicate prevailing notions of power, policing, punishment and irredeemability. But they can also create space for radical alternatives.

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Maureen Mansfield Maureen Mansfield

Cops in Culture #4: Death in Paradise

With its exotic setting and undemanding nature, Death in Paradise is the product of a racist paradigm which it in turn reinforces in its audience.

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Maureen Mansfield Maureen Mansfield

Cops in Culture #3: Hot Fuzz

Hot Fuzz is a police movie about police movies, and the relationship between media and real policing.

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