Proportioning violence
Ethnographic notes on the contingencies of police reform in Turkey
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7640438 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hayal Akarsu (0000-0002-7273-0067, Completing her PhD in sociocultural anthropology at the University of Arizona, School of Anthropology and for the next two years she will be a junior research fellow at the Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis University. She studies policing and security in Turkey., corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 11-14 |
| Publication date | 2018-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anthropology Today (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0268-540X • E-ISSN: 1467-8322 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1467-8322.12403 |
| OpenAlex | W2793124950 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 20 |
In spite of years of efforts in Turkey to reform the police, including an increase in budget allocations for ‘democratic policing training’, ‘capacity building programmes’ and ‘non‐lethal technologies and tools’, police violence persists. How might we conceptualize the relationship between the upsurge of police violence and such investments? In this article, the author suggests that instead of taking ‘reform’ or ‘transformation’ discourses at face value, we look at some of the ways in which police violence is reformatted through the very tools, discourses and idioms of police reform itself. The article draws on 18 months of fieldwork research on police and security in Turkey, where the author observed the on‐site implementation of police reforms in several venues: police academy classes, practical training programmes that also involved ‘international’ security experts, and local police stations and neighbourhoods. The article examines how the processes of reforming expand the contours of not only policing practice but also the boundaries of police violence – ostensibly what these reforms were supposed to restrain
Criminal justice · Criminology · Democracy · Ethnography · Police science · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Global Security and Public Health · Law · Peacebuilding and International Security · Public Administration
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| Unique citing works | 6 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |