Beyond Policing: Building Safety Through Care, Refusal, and Collective Possibility

This talk draws on Philip V. McHarris’s book Beyond Policing to examine the failures of policing as a framework for safety and the ways Black communities have long enacted practices of care, protection, and refusal beyond the state. Dr. Philip V. McHarris is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Black Studies and Frederick Douglass Institute at the University of Rochester. McHarris was a presidential postdoctoral research fellow at Princeton University in the Department of African American Studies and the Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab. He earned his PhD in sociology and African American studies at Yale University.