Remi Joseph-Salisbury
Remi Joseph-Salisbury is a Reader in Sociology at the University of Manchester, specializing in racisms and antiracisms, particularly in education and policing. He is currently working on a Leverhulme-funded project exploring the impact of police presence in schools. Remi co-authored Anti-Racist Scholar-Activism (Manchester UP 2021, open access), which won a 2023 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Award. He also co-edited The Fire Now: Anti-Racism in Times of Explicit Racial Violence (Zed Books 2018) and authored Black Mixed-Race Men (Emerald Publishing 2018), which received the Philip Abram Prize for best first book in Sociology. In addition, Remi recently led the first study on the impact of security services on students in British universities, culminating in the publication of Whose Campus, Whose Security?. Prior to this, he was lead author on a seminal report on Race and Ethnicity in British Sociology for the British Sociological Association. His recent work addresses topics such as police in schools, campus securitization, pandemic policing, police abolition, and racism in British education. Remi is a steering group member of the Northern Police Monitoring Project, an abolitionist group based in Greater Manchester, and the No Police in Schools campaign. He is also a member of the Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE).
Collected Work
“Critical Race Theory and Abolition as a Framework for Radical Analysis: Lessons from the No Police in Schools Campaign”
This article brings Critical Race Theory (CRT) and abolitionist theory into conversation, exploring their combined potential as an analytical framework for understanding reform, social change, and retrenchment. Using the Greater Manchester-based No Police in Schools campaign as a case study, I analyse Manchester City Council's reported decision to remove School-Based Police Officers – a move first celebrated by some as a victory but later found to be fraught with complexity.