French Colonial Police

Blanchard, Emmanuel

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“…362 Regarding recent research, Blanchard offers a general overview of colonial policing across the French colonial empire. 363 Similar to Woodman and Sinclair, Martin Thomas holds that French colonial policing emerged as "an interactive process between the empire and mainland France," a process in and through which ideas of urban planning, as well as practices of legal and social control, permanently travelled back and forth between colony and metropole, thereby converting French colonies into "laboratories for organized violence, where new forms of suppression, punishment, and political control were practiced and refined." 364 Thomas traces the anti-colonial resistance and its repression by police forces primarily back to the order of the economic exploitation system of colonial rule.…”

Section: British Togolandmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Hundreds and at times thousands of individual petitions that raised general questions were grouped together and subsequently treated as a single petition. 363 Usually, the Standing Committee recommended that general petitions be deferred, and the issues raised in them not be placed on the agenda until the Council considered an annual report, which represented the colonial power's voice on the administration of a trusteeship territory.…”

Section: General Versus Specific Petitionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Securitising Decolonisation

Heise

2024

Postcolonial Studies

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With the right to petition the United Nations, the Ewe and Togoland unification movement enjoyed a privilege unmatched by other dependent peoples. Using language conveying insecurity, the movement seized the international spotlight, ensuring that the topic of unification dominated the UN Trusteeship System for over a decade. Yet, its vociferous securitisations fell silent due to colonial distortion, leaving unification unfulfilled, thus allowing the seeds of secessionist conflict to grow. At the intersection of postcolonial theory and security studies, Julius Heise presents a theory-driven history of Togoland's path to independence, offering a crucial lesson for international statebuilding efforts.

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Section: British Togolandmentioning

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Section: General Versus Specific Petitionsmentioning

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Securitising Decolonisation

Heise

2024

Postcolonial Studies

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“…In turn, this threatened elites' position, especially as they had little political legitimacy to begin with. But in contrast to other former colonies, notably British-ruled ones, countries emerging from French colonial rule also inherited a fragmented security apparatus including with numerous paramilitaries (Horowitz, 1985;Blanchard, 2014;Scott, 1971;Wells, 1974). Governments emerging from French colonial rule thus had not only the motivation to engage in counterbalancing but also the opportunity to do so through the repurposing of existing paramilitaries.…”

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confidence: 99%

The colonial roots of structural coup-proofing

Mehrl

Choulis

2021

International Interactions

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Colonially inherited institutions are a key determinant of the regime type and economic outcomes of postcolonial countries. This study extends this claim to civil-military relations, arguing that former French colonies are especially likely to invest in structural coupproofing. France created paramilitary units throughout its colonies for which many natives were recruited. After independence, these paramilitaries proved persistent and were consequently used to counterbalance the regular armed forces. In contrast, countries without existing paramilitary organizations had stronger militaries which deterred and even forcibly prevented structural coup-proofing. Quantitative tests using global data on coup-proofing and a paired comparison of civil-military relations in Cote d'Ivoire and Ghana support the claim that former French colonies are more likely to heavily invest in counterbalancing. By showing how French colonial institutions provided post-independence governments with the opportunity to coup-proof, the study contributes to our understanding of civil-military relations as well as the institutional long-term effects of colonialism and foreign rule more generally.

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“…France no longer has the same political regime, but it is nevertheless the same state. Emmanuel Blanchard (2014) analyses the logic, structure and loyalties of the French police force by linking its origin to French colonial history. France followed a trajectory of transforming state police structures from a colonial past to a democratic EU ideal of serving society.…”

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Embodying the nation, representing the state: Performativity of police work in the Franco-Romanian bilateral agreement

Vrăbiescu

2020

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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The French police and Romanian forces seek to identify, surveil and control Romanian citizens who are suspected to be ‘irregular migrants’ or ‘criminals’ in France. The two states sealed a bilateral agreement to deploy Romanian police forces on French territory: twice a year Romanian uniformed officers patrol next to the French police, whereas liaison officers work throughout the year in several French police units. Policing its own citizens on another state territory becomes part of police work in the EU, a police model encouraged and criticized at the same time. This article engages in debates on geographies of policing and cross-national policing in the context of EU citizens’ deportation. It problematizes the ‘imagined’ and ‘fictional’ in nation, state and police work instead of the claimed management, control, and law enforcement. It scrutinizes the role of performativity in the work of Romanian and French joint police forces. It documents cultural organization of the police in France and Romania, and it empirically explores personal positions in Franco-Romanian police forces working together in the Paris region. This article aims to evidence the cultural, social and institutional dynamics within transnational policing played out against the background of a bilateral mission.

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French Colonial Police

Cited by 28 publications

References 16 publications

Securitising Decolonisation

Securitising Decolonisation

The colonial roots of structural coup-proofing

Embodying the nation, representing the state: Performativity of police work in the Franco-Romanian bilateral agreement

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