eprintid: 10205874
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creators_name: Nwonka, Clive Chijioke
title: The constructions of anti-Black anxiety: Operation Trident's “as if” fictionalisms
ispublished: inpress
divisions: UCL
divisions: B03
divisions: C01
divisions: J42
keywords: Race, visual culture, crime, blackness, police, media
note: © 2025 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.
abstract: The Metropolitan Police’s Operation Trident (1998–2012) was a key
example of how Black criminalization was accentuated through the
inferential narratives of the media. However, Operation Trident’s
independent use of the media would see them exhibit a varied
practice of community policing as part of its broader preventative
measures that would use a variety of visual mediums in its crossmedia campaign strategy specifically aimed at London’s Black
urban communities as an intervention into what was perceived as
the natural allure of gun violence within the city’s Black symbolic
locations. This article considers the modes through which
Operation Trident attempted to structure public opinion. In
conducting an underexamined analysis of Operation Trident, I
apply the Neo-Kantianism of Vailhinger’s “as if” philosophy to
consider the means through which the Metropolitan Police’s antiBlack gun crime initiative instituted anxiety as a Black
criminological visual culture, and in doing so, secured its legitimacy.
date: 2025-02-25
date_type: published
publisher: Informa UK Limited
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2025.2462706
oa_status: green
full_text_type: pub
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 2367611
doi: 10.1080/01419870.2025.2462706
lyricists_name: Nwonka, Clive
lyricists_id: CJNWO04
actors_name: Nwonka, Clive
actors_id: CJNWO04
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
publication: Ethnic and Racial Studies
pagerange: 1-17
issn: 0141-9870
citation:        Nwonka, Clive Chijioke;      (2025)    The constructions of anti-Black anxiety: Operation Trident's “as if” fictionalisms.                   Ethnic and Racial Studies     pp. 1-17.    10.1080/01419870.2025.2462706 <https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2025.2462706>.    (In press).    Green open access   
 
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