The Politics of Policing Gypsies: The discursive legitimation of state violence against nomadic ethnicities in Britain

Based analysis of political debate and conversations with police officers, examines how domicile state violence against nomadic minorities comes to be facilitated through discourse in society. Against a theoretical framework of moral obligation developed by Zygmunt Bauman, argues that Britian remains discursively engaged in a wider social process of repressive cultural assimilation through everyday domicile language that rejects and denies nomadic tradition and lifestyle. Within the disciplining agenda of modernity, such discursive power threads through the language of politicians and police officers as creators and enforcers of what become anti-nomadic state laws and violence of the domicile 'self' toward the nomadic 'other' in contemporary society.