ICCJ Fall Colloquium: Modulating eventfulness, mitigating potentiality: Examining the political work of police liaison teams in Ontario

Monday, November 28, 2022 from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

• In-person event
• 2017, Dunton Tower, Carleton University
• 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON, K1S 5B6

• Contact
• Lara Karaian, lara.karaian@carleton.ca, 613-520-2600 x 1458

The Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice invites you to our Fall Colloquium, co-sponsored by the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies.

For this talk, “Modulating Eventfulness, Mitigating Potentiality: Examining the Political Work of Police Liaison Teams in Ontario,” SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Paul Sylvestre, examines the relationship between Police Liaison Teams, protest, space, and territorializing settler state power.

Police Liaison Teams (PLT) have become a primary vehicle to manage Indigenous land defence actions and mass demonstrations. A complex blend of pre-emptive policing and community policing, police liaison interventions extend well beyond the spatio-temporal confines of a given protest event. In this talk, Paul Sylvestre adopts a critical geographic perspective on the relationship between space and event to discuss the proliferation of police liaison strategies and to examine the ways in which PLTs territorialize settler state power and subtly reconfigure the political terrain over which political dissent is organized.