Policing-networks: reassembling the cultural
This paper sets up and responds to a provocation: what would happen to our theories of policing if we were to dispense altogether with the concept of police culture? Using Latourian actor-network theory (ANT) as an entry point, the paper critically interrogates what counts as culture in a policing c...
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Tipo de documento: | Electrónico Artículo |
Lenguaje: | Inglés |
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2021
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Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Criminology
Año: 2021, Volumen: 13, Páginas: 45-63 |
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Volltext (kostenfrei) |
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Sumario: | This paper sets up and responds to a provocation: what would happen to our theories of policing if we were to dispense altogether with the concept of police culture? Using Latourian actor-network theory (ANT) as an entry point, the paper critically interrogates what counts as culture in a policing context to expose the epistemological, methodological and ontological fragilities at the heart of the concept. This prepares the ground for rethinking `the cultural’ as an effect of heterogeneous agencies and practices of policing (policing-networks), rather than an informal `layer’ of knowhow/knowledge which informs the way policing is done. The paper concludes with a detailed discussion of ANT methodology to signal the difference a Latourian orientation can make to the research and analysis of `the cultural’. |
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Notas: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 56-63 |