ABSTRACT
This chapter is organized around a major event of extrajudicial violence that has defined Kingston’s post-9/11 security moment and has revived spirited debates about the relationships between poor, urban residents; the police; and the state: the 2010 incursion by the island’s security forces into the inner-city community of Tivoli Gardens. The author maps three historical moments to reveal the ways in which practices of governance, discipline, and policing are related, and how their relationship allows ideas about race, citizenship, and belonging to be re-evaluated in new and meaningful ways.
