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  • A teal banner on grass in front of trees reads 'Nottingham camp for the liberation of Palestine'. A Palestine flag is tied to a lamp-post.

    'Get in the protest pen': The limits of the right to protest and the production of the docile protester (forthcoming)

    In Tracey Davanna and Federica Rossi (eds.) Forthcoming. Policing In Crisis? Policing and Resistance in the 21st Century. Bristol University Press.

    Co-authored with MATTY HALL.

  • Imperialist state violence depicted in Caravaggio's painting, The Beheading of John the Baptist

    Strip-Searching as Abjectification: Racism and Sexual Violence in British policing (2024)

    Journal article in Theoretical Criminology. Volume 29, issue 1. pp. 65-90.

    doi/10.1177/13624806241230485

    Co-authored with TOM KEMP. Data gathered in collaboration with Release (Drug Law and Harm Reduction NGO).

  • Psychadelic colours conceal an image of two cops in a meadow, one beating the ground. Text reads: Cops be like, flowers, stop resisting.

    Just Police Violence: Liberal ideology and the critique of violence from Walter Benjamin to Black Lives Matter (2024)

    Journal article in Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence. Volume 2, issue 1. pp. 34-63.

    doi.org/10.1163/27727882-bja00022

  • Colourful badges with queer liberation slogans from Nottingham's radical archive, The Sparrow's Nest.

    Another Communism of Love is Possible! (2024)

    Short review essay in Anarchist Studies: An inter- and multi-disciplinary journal of anarchism research. Volume 32, issue 2. pp. 125-126.

    Co-authored with CHRIS ROSSDALE. A review of Richard Gilman-Opalsky, The Communism of Love: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Exchange Value (Chico, CA: PM Press, 2022).

  • Subverting poster on billboard in London mimicking branding of Metropolitan Police. Text reads: In 2013 we spent £9.6m telling you we're not violent, racist and corrupt. It's propaganda pure and simple.

    Break the Long Lens of the Law! From police propaganda to movement media (2023)

    In Joe Saunders and Carl Fox (eds.) 2023. Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Media Ethics. London: Routledge. pp. 288-304.

    Image credit: Special Patrol Group

  • Situationist image showing group of French police in riot gear confronting a papier mache model police car on fire.

    Criminalisation of political activism: A conversation across disciplines (2023)

    In Critical Studies on Security Vol 11, 2023 - Issue 2. pp. 106-125.

    Co-authored with FABIO CRISTIANO, DEANNA DADUSC, TRACEY DAVANNA, JOANNA GILMORE, CHRIS ROSSDALE, FEDERICA ROSSI, ADAN LATOUR, LANA LATOUR, WAQAS TUFAIL AND ELIAN WEIZMAN.

    doi.org/10.1080/21624887.2023.2188628

  • Cover of Geuss's book.

    Who Needs A Book Review? (2022)

    Short review essay in Contemporary Political Theory, 2022.

    Co-authored with JAMES EVANS.

    A review of Raymond Geuss, Who Needs A World-View? (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020).

    doi.org/10.1057/s41296-022-00593-2

  • Cover of Abolishing the Police book with Cat Sims illustration behind. Text reads: Shortlisted for the Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing 2022.

    Abolishing the Police (2021)

    Interdisciplinary collection, edited and introduced by K. Duff. Illustrated by Cat Sims. Dog Section Press, 2021.

    Glossary, study guide, audio versions and further resources available at Abolitionist Futures.

    Contributors: CHRIS ROSSDALE, ARIANNE SHAHVISI, TOM KEMP, BOBBY AMIS, CONNOR WOODMAN, TANZIL CHOWDHURY, BECKA HUDSON, EDDIE BRUCE-JONES, DANIEL LOICK, GUY AITCHISON, SARAH LAMBLE, MELANIE BRAZZELL, VANESSA E. THOMPSON.

    Reviewed by Leah Cowan in Red Pepper Magazine.

  • Painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat called Obnoxious Liberals (1982), depicting a slave auction in primary colours.

    Resisting Liberal Self-Deception (2019)

    Long review essay in European Journal of Philosophy, 2019.

    Review of Candice Delmas, A Duty to Resist: When Disobedience Should Be Uncivil (Oxford: OUP), and Anna Elisabetta Galeotti, Political Self-Deception (Cambridge: CUP).

    doi.org/10.1111/ejop.12503

  • Protest at night. Banners read: Strike 4 Decrim; English Collective of Prostitutes; Trans Health in Trans Hands.

    Feminism Against Crime Control: On Sexual Subordination and State Apologise (2018)

    Journal article in Historical Materialism, Vol 26, 2018 - Issue 2, pp.123-148.

    Part of a special issue on identity politics. Full issue available online here.

    doi.org/10.1163/1569206X-00001649

  • CCTV image of Koshka in a cell at Holborn Police Station in 2013 lying on bench reading a book.

    The Criminal Is Political: Policing politics in real existing liberalism (2017)

    Journal article in the Journal of the American Philosophical Association, Vol 3, 2017 - Issue 4, pp.485-502.

    doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1017/apa.2017.39

  • Cover of Finlayson's book

    Review: The Political Is Political (2016)

    In Contemporary Political Theory, 15, e50–e53 (2016).

    Review of Lorna Finlayson, The Political Is Political: Conformity and the Illusion of Dissent in Contemporary Political Philosophy (Rowman & Littlefield International, 2015).

    doi.org/10.1057/cpt.2015.51

  • Green poster with image of triangle and block lettering. Text reads: TW: Adorno.

    Review: Two new books on Adorno (2014)

    My first ever book review, published online by the Marx & Philosophy Society, 2 Feb 2014.

    Review of Fabian Freyenhagen, Living Less Wrongly: Adorno’s Practical Philosophy (CUP, 2013), and Brian O’Connor, Adorno (Routledge, 2012).