"This is an ideal work for professional therapists searching for a critical way to look at policing and its effects on the populations they serve. Recommended."
—CHOICE
— CHOICE
“If you're looking for a book that performs an apologia for police violence under the pretense of psychoanalyzing carceral logics, this is not the book for you. Rather, Jackson meticulously grounds her scholarship and narrative in an abolitionist, queer and feminist framework that relentlessly highlights the structures, conditions, and logics undergirding policing in the United States. The specific focus on the socio-psychic makes this book a must-read, especially for any clinician who heeds the call for abolition as an integral struggle in service of our collective liberation.”
—Lara Sheehi, co-author of Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine
— Lara Sheehi
“Uniform Feelings incisively shows how the national fantasies and psychic cultures of policing reach far beyond interactions with police officers. From the therapist’s office, to the gun range, to the museum, Jackson pushes us to examine our affective investments in policing cultures. Working at the intersections of race, affect, and carceral studies, Uniform Feelings astutely reveals the psychological and materialist entanglements that must be undone if we are to build an abolitionist future.”
—Paula Ioanide, author of The Emotional Politics of Racism: How Feelings Trump Facts in an Era of Colorblindness
— Paula Ioanide
“The police stand at the very heart of white bourgeois order. Uniform Feelings puts this fact up front and center, forcing readers to contemplate the politics of police power and the everyday violence it enacts in the most insidious and spectacular of ways. The book offers a thoughtful and very helpful discussion about racialized state violence as its agents understand, and disown, their legal capacity for violence. Given its focus on material culture and psychology, the book offers a unique approach to thinking about the police power. It is a welcome offering.”
—Tyler Wall, co-author of Police: A Field Guide
— Tyler Wall