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Kyed, Helene Maria; Albrecht, Peter

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“…The expansion of surveillance mechanisms such as CCTV, drone patrolling, and big data analytics means that much of daily urban life is monitored, measured, and used for detecting crime and security threats. Increasingly, nonpolice actors are involved in fighting crime or administering order, including private security companies, community policing structures, migration and revenue specialized forces, and military policing units (Kyed and Albrecht, 2015). Not only has the array of policing actors widened, but also cooperative arrangements between police and nonpolice actors are more common, particularly in regard to security threats that pose challenges to governments, including terrorism and organized crime.…”

Section: Framing Batidas Militares As a Policing Techniquementioning

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Conscription or constriction: Military policing of urban youth

Matallana-Villarreal

2020

Environ Plan D

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Policing—order-making practices to discipline society and tackle crime—goes beyond the typical work of constabulary forces. There is a plurality of policing actors, rationales, and interests within a larger security assemblage, and multiple configurations of those elements according to specific contexts. This paper presents the phenomenon of batidas militares—military raids with the purpose of enforced conscription—carried out by the Colombian army as an informal policing practice. Through a combination of spatial analysis and fieldwork, including interviews with policing operators and young people involved in documented cases, I explain how the systematic execution of batidas created invisible, yet identifiable, urban borders, and how batidas operated as complementary preemptive security devices imposing a militarist order on the city.

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Conscription or constriction: Military policing of urban youth

Matallana-Villarreal

2020

Environ Plan D

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“…Many recent ethnographic studies on police discretion have investigated how police officers make their decisions and how these inevitably include the making of distinctions and boundaries (e.g. Beek 2012Beek , 2016Fassin 2013Fassin , 2015Kyed & Albrecht 2015;Schneider 2014). For instance, Beek has argued that police practices can essentially be examined in terms of 'boundary work and boundary shifting ' (2012, 554).…”

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On the Sensory Policing of Vices

Leser

2020

JEA

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This paper explores the policing of vices and offers a critical inquiry into the affective politics of policing practices seen through police and state ethnography, political anthropology, and the 'affective turn' in social and cultural theory. It shows how the moral worlds of policing sex work and performing raids in the red-light 'milieu' are constituted in the making of boundaries through visual, olfactory, somatosensory, and auditory sensations, which can be understood as normative performances in the realm of morality. Police officers do not engage in a neutral gaze but transform the sensuous into sensations that enact these normative distinctions between the 'normal' and the 'abnormal' -the morally questionable red-light 'milieu.' These practices can be read in regard to a morality that is conveyed in and through the officers' sensational performances in an observingly affective and somatic manner. Morality not simply is but is being done-and performing affects and sensations plays a significant role in the making of moral worlds in the realm of policing. Raiding the red-light 'milieu' is a performance on disorder and order, on what is normal and what is not, and thus a deeply political practice that reveals how order-and boundary-making operates through basic sensations and feelings, of the sensuous, the aesthetic, and the somatic.

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“…In this sense, the impact of violence has been social as much as physical, because it revolves around how violence is interpreted and acted upon and less about why people kill (Jensen, 1999). It is these relational aspects, so fundamental of policing (Kyed and Albrecht, 2015: 15), that have been reconfigured and has transformed urban life.…”

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“…This perspective feeds into a burgeoning literature on policing and urban space (cf. Jensen, 2010; Koskela, 2000; Kyed and Albrecht, 2015; Wacquant, 2008). In this light, we illustrate how the police employ and produce processes of bordering and how this has the ability to transform urban space.…”

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Policing the war on drugs and the transformation of urban space in Manila

Warburg

Jensen

2018

Environ Plan D

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This article explores policing and urban ordering in the Philippine war on drugs. With an empirical point of departure in ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Bagong Silang, a poor urban area on the outskirts of Metro Manila, the article highlights the perspective of the state police in an area that has been heavily exposed to the drug war and can be considered as one of its hot spots. It is examined how inspirations from counter-insurgency strategies are implemented in policing the war on drugs and discussed how this form of policing is negotiated and what implications it produces on the ground. In doing so, the article asks, ‘how have counter-insurgency policing strategies transformed urban space and the possibility of life in the poorer sections of Manila’? Drawing on a conceptual framework on borders, policing and the production of fear, the article argues that there exists an intimate connection between the employed policing strategies and the transformation of urban space with the potential of fundamentally reconfiguring urban sociality in areas such as Bagong Silang.

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Introduction

Cited by 12 publications

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Conscription or constriction: Military policing of urban youth

Conscription or constriction: Military policing of urban youth

On the Sensory Policing of Vices

Policing the war on drugs and the transformation of urban space in Manila

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