Racialization of City Spaces through Moral Monitoring in Rotterdam, The Netherlan












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            Abstract

            The city o f Rotterdam has had some o f the s trictest policing and security policies in t
            In public spaces, enforcement tactics have included such practices as preventative searche
            fines for individuals for hanging around in groups of three or more. This article explores

            to enforce certain behaviours in public spaces that racialize city spaces. Further the aut
            other local urban occupants reinforce the ethnic and racial hierarchy of belonging in the 
            author uses situational analysis and in-situ ethnographic interviews as methods to engage 

            access populations in situations of policing and security.
            Keywords: policing of public spaces; sense of belonging; governmentality; hang-around yout

            Netherlands

            Jennifer Long [ URL "LM-1233.html "]

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