Outcharming crime in (D)urban space
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3608342 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christine Hentschel (0009-0008-3577-8118, Institute for Cultural Inquiry, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 148-164 |
| Publication date | 2011-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Dynamics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0253-3952 • E-ISSN: 1940-7874 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02533952.2011.570001 |
| OpenAlex | W2010820793 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 23 |
This paper is an inquiry into the uses of space and emotions in the governance of urban dangers. Cities have always been affective assemblages, yet the role of both space and affect in the control of urban crime has dramatically changed over the century. What defines spatial urban management today, in Africa and elsewhere, are not the prohibitive, moralising or forcefully exclusionary techniques of the past; instead, the powers of seduction and atmosphere have gained pride of place and given rise to a regime of spatial management through flirty surfaces. Crime, according to security strategists and city makers in the South African city of Durban, can be literally charmed out from particular bubbles of governance. Urban practitioners do not search for the root causes of violent crime somewhere deep in the history of society, but rather in space itself, right at the city's surface. While part of a worldwide trend, this recent fascination with the charming aspects of space has a particularly strong South African dramatic. Governing through handsome space in South Africa is not simply a creation of beautiful illusions against the reality of pervasive violence, but a constant endeavour to re‐draw a troubled spatial history
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Cityness and African Urban Development
The people's city
Taming the Disorderly City
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Reassembling the Social
Re‐thinking the urban social
Conceptions of Space and Crime in the Punitive Neoliberal City
Building with Ruins and Dreams
From Racial to Class Apartheid
Intensities of feeling
Crime and Policing in Post-Apartheid South Africa
For the City Yet to Come
Vibrant Matter
Figuring Crime
People as Infrastructure
Aesthetics of Superfluity
African Modes of Self-Writing
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,45 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2025 (11) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |