Governance through pluralization

Jerusalem’s modular security provision

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12301591
AutoresLior Volinz (0000-0001-6089-0234, University of Amsterdam, autor de correspondencia)
Año2018
Volumen49
Número6
Páginas438-456
Fecha de publicación2018-09-19
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSecurity Dialogue (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0967-0106 • E-ISSN: 1460-3640
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0967010618789758
PMID30542238
OpenAlexW2891643649
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7
Referencias citadas30

Security responses increasingly involve the delegation of security roles from state actors, such as the police and the military, to a plurality of public and private institutions. This article focuses on the emergence of a modular governance logic in security provision, in which urban security is diffused into differing modules - security actors, performances, technologies and practices - which can be enlisted, deployed, instructed, entwined, detached and withdrawn at will. This article identifies three features of urban modular security provision: the heterogeneity of its public and private components, the development of reserved capacities, and the differential multifacetedness of its performances and practices. These are explored through the case study of East Jerusalem, in which a modular security provision emerged where previously undefined and ad-hoc security arrangements became cohesive, normalized and codified through practice and law. In tracing the flows of security authorities, personnel and knowledge produced within a modular security assemblage, this article proposes that the modular assembly of security actors complements policing institutions by providing other informal disciplinary, punitive and statecrafting powers, in a manner which obfuscates controversial state policies and unequally distributes rights and resources

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