Discipline and delegation: colonial governance in Malayan towns, 1880–1930

Lees, Lynn Hollen

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“…As Reiner’s (2010: 39–66) account of the English police shows, the introduction of public constabularies can be deeply contested and often not reliant on popular will, consent or proven ability to follow rules. In other contexts, particularly colonial situations, public constabularies were imposed by naked power and raw political domination – for example, Ghana (Tankebe, 2008), Nigeria (Alemika, 1993), Malaya (Lees, 2011), Australia (Nettelbeck and Foster, 2012), Palestine and Cyprus (Sinclair and Williams, 2007), as well as others, including Ireland, India and Kenya (see Anderson and Killingray, 1991). The present day legitimacy and authority of public constabularies owe a debt to historical power struggles that did not necessarily honour ‘rules, beliefs, and consent’.…”

Section: Beetham’s Formula Of Legitimacy Applied To Police Studies: Dmentioning

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Police legitimacy, ideology and qualitative methods: A critique of procedural justice theory

Harkin

2015

Criminology & Criminal Justice

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I argue that there are unconsidered complexities to police legitimacy and use examples from my study of police-public consultation forums in Edinburgh, Scotland to illustrate. I make a number of conceptual and methodological critiques by drawing upon Steven Lukes' social theory on power to show how legitimacy can be a product of authority relations as much as it is a cause of authority relations. This view finds support from systems-justification theory. I also tackle Beetham's conception of legitimacy and argue that there is evidence from police studies that the police breach his key antecedents to legitimacy without incurring the expected consequences. Furthermore, I take an original methodological approach to studying police legitimacy which reveals additional insights. For instance, Bottoms and Tankebe suggest legitimacy addresses multiple 'audiences'; I would also add that it addresses multiple recipients as legitimacy is shown to vary among officers and positions of rank.

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Police legitimacy, ideology and qualitative methods: A critique of procedural justice theory

Harkin

2015

Criminology & Criminal Justice

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“…Large-scale urbanization started in Malaya in the late nineteenth century when the British introduced modern urban planning and municipal reform in the peninsula (Goh, 1991; Lees, 2011). Major cities and smaller towns were settled, organized and managed along racial and ethnic lines (Evers, 1975;Cangi, 1993;Yuen, 2011).…”

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The Symbolic Universe of Cyberjaya, Malaysia

Evers

Nordin

2012

SSRN Journal

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This paper analyses how various actors have used potent urban symbols to assert their vision of a modern, globalized Malay identity in the construction of the recently founded knowledge city of Cyberjaya, part of the flagship Multimedia Super Corridor project. As the state controls both the land and the urban planning process it has attempted to impose its own particularistic vision of Malaysian society on urban space and urban structures. This is demonstrated through an analysis of the discursive vision behind Cyberjaya, the logos of government corporations, the use of architectural forms and motifs, and the treatment of urban space itself. The discussion suggests the spatial and symbolic universe of Cyberjaya draws on both patterns of 'traditional' Malay life as well a projected vision of a modernized Malay identity that resonates with a globalized Islam. This generates contestations in which other possible imaginings of Cyberjaya's symbolic space become possible.

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New Towns on the Malayan Frontier

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Planting Empire, Cultivating Subjects

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Discipline and delegation: colonial governance in Malayan towns, 1880–1930

Cited by 7 publications

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Police legitimacy, ideology and qualitative methods: A critique of procedural justice theory

Police legitimacy, ideology and qualitative methods: A critique of procedural justice theory

The Symbolic Universe of Cyberjaya, Malaysia

New Towns on the Malayan Frontier

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