Police and policing in geography
From methods, to theory, to praxis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5696349 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bloch (0000-0002-4021-4391, University of Arizona, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Publication date | 2021-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geography Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1749-8198 • E-ISSN: 1749-8198 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/gec3.12555 |
| OpenAlex | W3130475224 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
| References cited | 126 |
Despite the fact that any semblance of a "police studies" in geography is relatively recent, with calls for its development and expansion still being made in the literature today, geographers have nevertheless made important contributions to how scholars understand police and policing as a multifaceted manifestation of state power, coercion, and territoriality. Given the formative contributions that have already been made, and with promises of increased scholarly activity to come, there remains much opportunity for geography to become the go-to social scientific discipline for translating theory into action and advanced methods into practice. This is particularly so given heightened and widespread credence to the concept of defunding policing as we know it in the wake of continued and increasingly ruthless killings by police across the United States. In this article on police and policing in geography, I trace the brief history of a police studies, highlighting recent and contemporary contributions to its progress through critical examinations of community-, border-, affective-, and insidious-policing practices. Finally, I conclude with a brief discussion about how a police/policing studies can move forward as a durable geographical sub-field vis-à-vis greater inclusion of would-be scholars for whom being policed has been a lived experience that has resulted in personal encounters with hyper-criminalization, displacement, expulsion, un-homing, and incarceration
Criminalization · Criminology · Political science · Praxis · Social science · Sociology · Structure and agency · Territoriality · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Policing Practices and Perceptions · Urban Planning and Governance
“Somebody’s Watching Me”
Policing the Campus
Aversive racism and community-instigated policing
Police Power, Civil Order, and the Fabrication of Food (In)Security
The academic left, human geography, and the rise of authoritarianism during the Covid-19 pandemic
Policing sounds
Abstract policing, Covid-19 and the ‘rural idyll’ in Scotland
Gang injunction, What's your function? Investigating the relationship between civil gang injunctions and gang associates' patterns of association
Minor, not marginal, police geographies
Unravelling the “Thin Blue Line”
Modulating Eventfulness
Mapping and making gangland
Before Accelyne Williams
Fixing Broken Windows or Racial Capitalism’s Fixers
Abolitionist infrastructures
Police power in green
Gangs, gang members, and geography
Crime as Relational Concept in Political Geography
Prison geographies
Policing Space
City of Quartz
Incarcerating the Crisis
Digital Punishment
Digitize and Punish
Policies and Practices for an Antiracist Geography at the Millennium
Reflections on a White Discipline
In Place/Out of Place
Policing the Crisis
U.S. statecraft and the U.S.–Mexico border as security/economy nexus
The Torture Letters
Predict and Surveil
War Power, Police Power
Prison Land
Placing the Border in Everyday Life
Police, Power, and the Production of Racial Boundaries
Golden Gulag
Fatal Couplings of Power and Difference
Spatializing Blackness
To Protect and Serve Whiteness
Cities under siege – the new military urbanism
Ten Theses on Politics
Place, social relations and the fear of crime
Relocating the “inmate”
You and What Army? Violence, The State, and Mexico's War on Drugs
Displacement, Space and Dwelling
Policing the Contemporary City
The wars on graffiti and the new military urbanism
Innovation and Institutionalization
Hard Charger' or 'Station Queen'? Policing and the Masculinist State
Policing Social Marginality
Beyond Walls and Cages
For ethnography
Space, sexual violence and social control
The libidinal economy of revanchism
Geographies of identity I
Moving beyond Marcuse
The police, space and society
Beyond white privilege
Complexity not collapse
The geographies of policing
Policing car space and the legal liminality of the automobile
Who's Policing What Space? Critical Silences in Steve Herbert's Policing Space
Policing, data, and power-geometry
The Politics and Practice of Community Policing in Boston
They want to live in the Tremé, but they want it for their ways of living”
The local state and homeless shelters
Broken Windows Policing and Constructions of Space and Crime
Geographies of Policing
From Urban Entrepreneurialism to a “Revanchist City”? On the Spatial Injustices of Glasgow’s Renaissance
The Disappearing State and the Quasi‐Event of Immigration Control
Immigration Geopolitics Beyond the Mexico–US Border
Discipline and Devolution
Touching Like a State
Gender, Race, Age and Fear in the City
Policing the City
Territorial Tactics
Public Policy and the Effects of Crime in the Inner City
Slave Patrols
Crime and the Structure of Social Relations
Canicide by Cop
What Counts as the Politics and Practice of Security, and Where? Devolution and Immigrant Insecurity after 9/11
The Trapdoor of Community
The Right to the City
On Abolition Ecologies and Making “Freedom as a Place
Force‐full
Connecting embodiment, emotion and gentrification
Broken Windows Ideology and the (Mis)Reading of Graffiti
Citizenship and the problem of community
Anti-Social Behaviour in British Cities
Surplus Masculinities and Security
Conceptualizing the carceral in carceral geography
Urban geography II
Ordinary Emergency
Does the Punitive Need the Supportive? A Sympathetic Critique of Current Grammars of Urban Injustice
Policing mobilities through bio-spatial profiling in New York City
Ungoverned space
State reason and state affect
Appearing 'out of place
State power in blue
Visibility and the Policing of Public Space
Black matters are spatial matters
Immigration, policing, and the politics of time
The Relational Geographies of Policing and Security
Implicit revanchism
Police guns and private security cars. Ordering the state through socio-material policing assemblages in Nairobi
Police Torture in Chicago
The logistics of police power
Policing the war on drugs and the transformation of urban space in Manila
Spatial Dislocation and Affective Displacement
Conscription or constriction
The 'pure apples
Space, Politics, and the Political
Urban borderwork
The Contours of Disorder
City as borderland
Police killings and the vicissitudes of borders and bounding orders in Mathare, Nairobi
Space, Time, and Policing
The rugged border
Digitize and punish
| Unique citing works | 19 |
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| Citations per year | 3,8 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 19 |