City of Exception: The Dutch Revanchist City and the Urban Homo Sacer

Schinkel, Willem; Berg, Marguerite van den

doi:10.1111/j.1467-8330.2010.00831.x

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“…This happens only in case of ‘non‐western allochtons’ and it effectuates a discursive ‘ethnicization’ of notions of the ‘active citizen’ that appear in policy documents and political statements. Various policy discourses moreover entail discussions and specific policy programmes on ‘single mothers’, ‘radicalization’, ‘raising one's children well’ and other issues (Schinkel and Van den Berg forthcoming). These issues are formulated in terms of ‘active citizenship’, but they are selectively problematized in case of ‘non‐western allochtons’.…”

Section: The Rise Of Neo‐liberal Communitarianism: the Moralization Omentioning

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The double helix of cultural assimilationism and neo‐liberalism: citizenship in contemporary governmentality

Schinkel

Houdt

2010

British Journal of Sociology

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In this article the recent transformations of citizenship in the Netherlands are analysed in relation to a developing form of governmentality. We regard citizenship as a state regulated technique of in- and exclusion and a crucial instrument in the management of populations. Taking the Dutch contexts of immigration and integration as our case, we argue that cultural assimilationism and neo-liberalism appear in a double helix: they combine to form a new governmental strategy we call neo-liberal communitarianism. Neo-liberal communitarianism is the underlying rationale of a population management that operates both in an individualizing (citizenship as individual participation and responsibility) and a de-individualizing way ('community' at various aggregate and localized levels as frame of 'integration'). It thus combines a communitarian care of a Dutch culturally grounded national community - conceived as traditionally'enlightened' and 'liberal'- with a neo-liberal emphasis on the individual's responsibility to achieve membership of that community. 'Community' is thereby selectively seen as mobilized and present (when immigrant integration is concerned) or as latently present and still in need of mobilization (when indigenous Dutch are concerned). Concomitantly, a repressive responsibilization and a facilitative responsibilization are aimed at these two governmentally differentiated populations.

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Section: The Rise Of Neo‐liberal Communitarianism: the Moralization Omentioning

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The double helix of cultural assimilationism and neo‐liberalism: citizenship in contemporary governmentality

Schinkel

Houdt

2010

British Journal of Sociology

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“…Courses were organized in areas which were considered by the municipality to be 'problem areas'. Poverty, crime rates and the percentage of migrant inhabitants are important indicators in the selection of such areas (Schinkel and Van den Berg, 2011).…”

Section: Methods: Ethnographic Fieldwork and Policy Analysismentioning

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Paternalizing mothers: Feminist repertoires in contemporary Dutch civilizing offensives

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Duyvendak

2012

Critical Social Policy

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The stress in Dutch policy texts and policy practices on the emancipation of migrant women from their family and spouses goes hand in hand with a focus on precisely women's role within the family: that of the mother. In this paper, we ask the question how this is possible. We aim to shed light on this question by understanding contemporary policy texts and policy practices in the context of 1) a strong domestic motherhood ideology and 2) a Dutch tradition of paternalism. These tensions between notions of autonomy and emancipation from the family and marriage on the one hand, and motherhood on the other hand, lead to paradoxical practices of teaching migrant women to become emancipated within their role as mothers. Feminist discursive repertoires are put to work in paternalist policy practices that focus on autonomy in particular ways. In this article, we analyse these notions in policy discourses and in practices that we recorded in ethnographic research in parenting courses in Rotterdam.

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“…In other words, encampment is the process through which a given space becomes a space of exception through different practices such as bordering (Amoore, 2006;Epstein, 2007;Sparke, 2006), systematic annihilation (Gregory, 2004), neglect (Shewly, 2013), or by being heir to a broader conflict (Boano & Mart en, 2013). Encamped spaces can be formed as interstate frontiers (Hagmann & Korf, 2012), borderlands (Jones, 2009a) and enclaves (Jones, 2009b;Shewly, 2013) or urban localities (Schinkel & Van den Berg, 2011). In this sense we can understand the space of exception, not as a concrete location but as an ever-changing site which materializes through an "unlocalizable process of transformation" (Belcher, Martin, Secor, Simon, & Wilson, 2008: 599).…”

Section: Spaces Of Exception Encampment and Domesticationmentioning

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Colonial conquests and the politics of normalization: The case of the Golan Heights and Northern Cyprus

Ram

2015

Political Geography

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a b s t r a c tThe space of exception has been extensively discussed as a location in which governing technologies are deployed through the suspension and manipulation of the norm. The scholarship on the subject has underscored the ways in which various localities can be encamped, which alludes to the dynamic in which spaces of exception can be shaped through the application of various means of sovereign violence that produces new and unpredictable norms. Building on this literature, the article analyzes the ways in which the exception is intentionally used in order to spatially construct the norm. Two case studies are discussed: Israel's occupation of the Golan Heights and the Turkish occupation of Northern Cyprus. The article's main aim is to show how the state of emergency, which provided the justification for deploying exceptional meansdoccupation and subsequent colonizationdwas domesticated. By domestication I mean a situation whereby the state of emergency is not fully negated, but rather rearticulated and redeployed in order to reshape the space and transform it so that it is concomitantly both threatening and normal. I go on to show, however, how despite the processes of spatial normalization the state of exception always resurfaces.This article examines how occupying forces deploy exceptional means to reconstruct contested territories so as to normalize and in thus way fortify their presence. Analyzing two case studiesdthe Israeli occupation of the Golan Heights and the Turkish occupation of Northern CyprusdI show that the objective of the normalization process has in each case been different. Israel normalized its presence in the Golan in order to incorporate this region into its own territory, while Turkey has been normalizing its presence in Northern Cyprus in order to craft it as Turkish without fully integrating it into its own body politic. However, and despite these differences, a similar rationale has in both cases led the core statesdIsrael and Turkeydto employ a twofold normalization strategy during the conquest and subsequent occupation.On the one hand, the core states accentuated the geostrategic risks (real or constructed) embodied in the territories captured and presented them as constituting a threat that could be dealt with only through the imposition of a state of emergency and the deployment of exceptional means (e.g., ethnic cleansing, widespread destruction). On the other hand, and simultaneously, the core states strove to transform these contested spaces and reproduce them as normal in order to render them non-threatening.In other words, the core states present the spaces they had occupied as both an exception (a threat that needs to be controlled and managed) and simultaneously as normal. Examining how the strategies employed by the occupying states are informed by this tension, I show that the incongruity cannot be fully managed. The fact that these territories are colonized and are therefore constituted as spaces of exception is ultimately re-exposed.Following a brief literature r...

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City of Exception: The Dutch Revanchist City and the Urban Homo Sacer

Cited by 67 publications

References 33 publications

The double helix of cultural assimilationism and neo‐liberalism: citizenship in contemporary governmentality

The double helix of cultural assimilationism and neo‐liberalism: citizenship in contemporary governmentality

Paternalizing mothers: Feminist repertoires in contemporary Dutch civilizing offensives

Colonial conquests and the politics of normalization: The case of the Golan Heights and Northern Cyprus

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