| ID | 147939 |
| Title Proper | Spatial regimes of power |
| Other Title Information | combined municipal policing in the arab city of Nazareth |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | McGahern, Una |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | This paper examines the agency of Arab urban spaces in shaping local policing arrangements in Israel using a recent experiment with Combined Municipal Policing (CMP) in the city of Nazareth as a case study. Departing from prevailing analytical approaches to the study of local governance in Arab urban localities in Israel, it adopts a distributive notion of agency that addresses both the role of (uneven) arrangements of power in producing Arab-only urban spaces, as well as the role of (uneven) material assemblages and infrastructures of power—road networks, in particular—in generating, and frustrating, local policing arrangements within them. Building on a critique of ethnocratic theory as it relates to Arab-only localities in particular, it argues that changes in local policing arrangements should not be viewed simply as a sophistication of prevailing mechanisms of control, but rather as an interactional consequence of a more complex spatial regime of power that reveals the latent, unintended, and immanent political potency of the (Arab) city to talk to, with, and back to power. |
| `In' analytical Note | International Political Sociology Vol. 10, No.3; Sep 2016: p.206-222 |
| Journal Source | International Political Sociology 2016-09 10, 3 |
| Key Words | Power ; Arab ; Spatial Regimes ; Combined Municipal Policing ; City of Nazareth |