ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the remains of colonialism, arguing that we can see contemporary public order in terms of a continuing coloniality. The colonial endeavour affected those who bore that order, brutalisation changed the way the colonised and coloniser saw the world. The police deployment at the battle of Orgreave or the battle of the Beanfield would represent a coloniality of power irrespective of whether it came from expertise developed in Hong Kong or from France and the US. Walter Mignolo suggests that coloniality should be understood as a ‘colonial matrix of power’, ‘a structure of management (composed of domains, levels and flows) that controls and touches upon all aspects and trajectories of our lives’. Coloniality is imprinted in the latent exceptionality of contemporary public order management. Stephen Morton argues that colonialism is a condition of possibility for contemporary states of exception.
