DIIS-seminar: Usikkerhed i storbyer

TID: Mandag den 5. januar kl. 14.00-15.45

STED: DIIS, Danish Institute for International Studies, Main auditorium, Gl. Kalkbrænderi Vej 51A, 2100 København

TID: Mandag den 5. januar kl. 14.00-15.45

STED: DIIS, Danish Institute for International Studies, Main auditorium, Gl. Kalkbrænderi Vej 51A, 2100 København

TILMELDING: Senest den 2. januar kl. 12.00 på https://www.conferencemanager.dk/PolicingtheUrbanMargins/sign%2Dup.html

Seminaret afholdes på engelsk.

 

Policing the Urban Margins – Exploring the Politics of Order-Making

Today the world’s cities are growing rapidly, reaching hitherto unknown proportions. In this process slums are expanding and urban spaces are becoming sites of intensified violence and crime.

The new book Policing and the Politics of Order-Making(Routledge, 2015) examines the problem of urban insecurity and how policing is actually done in the margins of cities across Africa, Asia and Latin America.

The chapters on 10 cities in the Global South are based on in-depth empirical research, examining how and by whom order is made when state policing is seen as inadequate.

They particularly look at different civilian policing actors (like community police groups, youth movements, local courts, and drug cartels).

The book adds a new perspective on urban policing by bringing to light how order-making is intimately linked to different forms of politics.

Policing actors are not only enrolled in the political projects of local and national power holders, but also frequently engage in politics themselves.

This underlines how order and order-making violence in the urban margins are not monopolized by one particular institution, but frequently negotiated.

At this book launch the editors of the book will present the main conceptual and empirical insights of ‘Policing and the Politics of Order-Making’, followed by the presentation of a case study from the book.

The book can be purchased at the book launch at a 30 % discount.

Speakers

• Peter Alexander Albrecht, Researcher, DIIS
• Helene Maria Kyed, Senior Researcher, DIIS
• Finn Stepputat, Senior Researcher, DIIS
• Steffen Jensen, Senior Researcher, DIGNITY

 

Programme

14.00-14.05

Welcome

Finn Stepputat, Senior Researcher, DIIS

14.05-14.25

Introduction to the Book

Peter Alexander Albrecht, Researcher, DIIS

 

14.25-14.45

The Politics of Order-Making

Helene Maria Kyed, Senior Researcher, DIIS

 

14.45-15.10

Policing in Manila: Intimacy and Politics

Steffen Jensen, Senior Researcher, DIGNITY

 

15.10-15.45

Discussion

Finn Stepputat, Senior Researcher, DIIS

 

15.45-16.30

Wine Reception