Ny bog om ordensmagten i storbyer og slums i det globale Syd

TIME: Monday, 5 January at 14.00 – 15.45 hours

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

Participation is FREE of charge, but registration is required. Please use our online registration form at https://www.conferencemanager.dk/PolicingtheUrbanMargins/sign-up.html

TIME: Monday, 5 January at 14.00 – 15.45 hours

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

Participation is FREE of charge, but registration is required. Please use our online registration form at https://www.conferencemanager.dk/PolicingtheUrbanMargins/sign-up.html

And do so no later than Friday, 2 January 2015 at 12.00 noon.

The seminar will be in English.

Expanding world cities

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.

NB: The book can be purchased at the book launch at a 30 percent discount.

Speakers

Peter Alexander Albrecht, Researcher, DIIS

Helene Maria Kyed, Senior Researcher, DIIS

Finn Stepputat, Senior Researcher, DIIS

Steffen Jensen, Senior Researcher, DIGNITY

Programme

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