Finding the Right Translation for “Peace” in a Land of War
Finding the Right Translation for “Peace” in a Land of War

Summary/Abstract: This article explores the capture of the notion of “protection” by the State and its institutions – police, army, and the law – and its weaponization by carceral feminism. It means first studying how the terms “war” and “peace” have been weaponized by imperialism and the State, then addressing antiracist, anti-patriarchal, anti-imperialist and feminist decolonial politics of protection. In other words, how discourses about war and peace, and their implementations, have been deployed to justify a protection that rests on the criminalization and incarceration of those who dissent, on military interventions, creation of armed militia, legitimation of police violence, militarization of public space, and surveillance.

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