RT Article
T1 Policing-networks: reassembling the cultural
JF Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Criminology
VO 13
SP 45
OP 63
A1 Campbell, Elaine
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/186662878X
AB 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’.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 56-63
K1 Actor-network Theory
K1 actor-network methodology
K1 cartography of controversies
K1 cultural purification
K1 Latour
K1 policing-networks
K1 Police Culture