RT Article
T1 Waiting for Europe: utopia, Narratives of the Imaginary West and the Materiality of Police Culture in Ukraine
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 63
IS 5
SP 1327
OP 1342
A1 Shmatko, Ivan
LA English
YR 2023
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1869015509
AB Despite the long-held interest of researchers in the police culture(s), police imaginaries have barely received attention. This article is concerned with the imaginaries of the West produced by Ukrainian police officers. Based on the 5-month ethnography in two Ukrainian cities, I argue that Ukrainian police officers construct the idealized non-place of the Imaginary West to cope with the pressures of their work and criticize their working conditions, perceived lack of support from the state, gaps in infrastructure and lack of authority in encounters with the public. I discuss the implications of research on imaginary non-places for the field of police studies, arguing for the need to account for the materiality of culture.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 1340-1342
K1 Policing
K1 Police Culture
K1 Imaginary West
K1 Utopia
K1 Working conditions
K1 Materiality
DO 10.1093/bjc/azac087