{"title":"Mark Neocleous","description":"\u003cp\u003eDiscover the insightful works of Mark Neocleous, an esteemed author in the field of \u003cem\u003ePolitics \u0026amp; Current Affairs\u003c\/em\u003e. Neocleous delves deeply into the intricate structures of power and control within society, offering readers a thought-provoking journey through the mechanics of authority.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cstrong\u003eA Critical Theory of Police Power\u003c\/strong\u003e, Neocleous critically examines the role of police in modern governance, highlighting their influence beyond mere law enforcement. His work is a compelling analysis of how policing shapes societal order and the implications it holds for our understanding of justice and freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePacification\u003c\/strong\u003e explores the concept of pacification as a political strategy, extending far beyond its traditional military use. Neocleous presents a thorough examination of how pacification influences everyday life, probing into areas such as politics, economics, and social relations to expose the tranquillising effect it has on communities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cstrong\u003eThe Politics of Immunity\u003c\/strong\u003e, Neocleous offers a groundbreaking perspective on the notion of immunity, going beyond biological and medical definitions. He discusses immunity as a pivotal concept in political thought, revealing its role in the maintenance of state power and control over populations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMark Neocleous’s works are essential reading for anyone interested in understanding the deeper dynamics of political power and its pervasive impact on contemporary life. Dive into his collection to explore these complex themes through clear and engaging narratives.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"a-critical-theory-of-police-power-by-mark-neocleous-9781788735209","title":"A Critical Theory of Police Power","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe ubiquitous nature and political attraction of the concept of order has to be understood in conjunction with the idea of police.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSince its first publication, \u003cem\u003eA Critical Theory of Police Power\u003c\/em\u003e has been one of the most powerful and wide-ranging critiques of the police power. Neocleous argues for an expanded concept of police, able to account for the range of institutions through which policing takes place. These institutions are concerned not just with the maintenance and reproduction of order, but with its very fabrication, especially the fabrication of a social order founded on wage labour.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBy situating the police power in relation to both capital and the state and at the heart of the politics of security, the book opens up into an understanding of the ways in which the state administers civil society and fabricates order through law and the ideology of crime. The discretionary violence of the police on the street is thereby connected to the wider administrative powers of the state, and the thud of the truncheon to the dull compulsion of economic relations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46829820739820,"sku":"9781788735209","price":77.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/23881133482824.jpg?v=1758262795"},{"product_id":"pacification-by-mark-neocleous-9781804294017","title":"Pacification","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\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 organised, offering readers the first book that treats pacification as an important concept in the history of state power and capitalism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46849658880236,"sku":"9781804294017","price":39.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/10954473482830.jpg?v=1759058542"},{"product_id":"the-politics-of-immunity-by-mark-neocleous-9781839764837","title":"The Politics of Immunity","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOur contemporary political condition is obsessed with immunity. The immunity of bodies and the body politic; personal immunity and herd immunity; how to immunise the social system against breakdown. The obsession intensifies with every new crisis and the mobilization of yet more powers of war and police, from quarantine to border closures and from vaccination certificates to immunological surveillance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEngaging four key concepts with enormous cultural weight – Cell, Self, System and Sovereignty – \u003ci\u003eThe Politics of Immunity\u003c\/i\u003e moves from philosophical biology to intellectual history and from critical theory to psychoanalysis to expose the politics underpinning the way immunity is imagined. At the heart of this imagination is the way security has come to dominate the whole realm of human experience. From biological cell to political subject, and from physiological system to the social body, immunity folds into security, just as security folds into immunity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book thus opens into a critique of the violence of security and spells out immunity’s tendency towards self-destruction and death: immunity, like security, can turn its aggression inwards, into the autoimmune disorder.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWide-ranging and polemical, \u003ci\u003eThe Politics of Immunity\u003c\/i\u003e lays down a major challenge to the ways in which the immunity of the self and the social are imagined.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House Distribution","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46850365128940,"sku":"9781839764837","price":55.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/547403482843.jpg?v=1759084465"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/collections\/mark-neocleous.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}