‘Police fire on rioters’: everyday counterinsurgency in a colonial capital

Kaden Paulson-Smith

Small Wars and Insurgencies, 2022, vol. 33, issue 4-5, 633-653

Abstract: Many have shown how ‘the British way’, a doctrine of minimum force, was problematic in theory and practice, especially in the final decades of empire. While the role of the colonial police in suppressing uprisings is often overlooked, this article argues that the police carried out everyday counterinsurgency campaigns. Using British archival records, this article examines a 1950 dockworker strike in Dar es Salaam, the colonial capital of former Tanganyika. Workers’ resistance was perceived by colonial authorities as insurgency, which led to the crosspollination of new policing strategies throughout the British Empire to expand surveillance, control riots, and break strikes.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1080/09592318.2021.1990599

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