Uniform Feelings: Scenes from the Psychic Life of Policing (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780472055258)

In Uniform Feelings, American studies scholar and abolitionist psychotherapist Jessi Lee Jackson reads policing as a set of emotional and relational practices in order to shed light on the persistence of police violence. Jackson argues that psychological investments in U.S. police power emerge at various sites: her counseling room, manuals for addressing bias, museum displays, mortality statistics, and memorial walls honoring fallen officers. Drawing on queer, feminist, anticolonial, and Black engagements with psychoanalysis to think through U.S. policing--and bringing together a mix of clinical case studies, autotheory, and ethnographic research--the book moves from the individual to the institutional. Jackson begins with her work as a psychotherapist working across the spectrum of relationships to policing, and then turns to interrogate carceral psychology--the involvement of her profession in ongoing state violence. Jackson orbits around two key questions: how are our relationships shaped by proximity to state violence, and how can our social worlds be transformed to challenge state-sanctioned violence?

Author: Jessi Lee Jackson
ISBN-10: 0472055259
ISBN-13: 9780472055258
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Language: English
Published: 05/09/2022
Pages: 212
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.91w x 0.63d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 03/01/2023