Парадоксалното наследство на трансградските дебати по политиките на сигурност в Германия през 90-те години
Transurban Security Discourses in Germany in the 1990s and Their Paradoxical Heritage

Summary/Abstract: The paper analyzes how US concepts shaped urban policing in Germany. It makes both a theoretical and an empirical argument. Firstly, it assesses the analytical value of the urban policy mobilities approach towards urban restructuring. It advocates a combination of Marxist and Foucauldian approaches rather than the common use of the assemblage concept. This aims at avoiding fl at ontologies by focusing on 1) strategic to unconscious exercise of power, 2) the interplay of different spheres (e.g., discourse, subjectivities, material practices, organizational structures), and 3) both temporary solidifi cation of and openings in power relations. Secondly, it shows how the German engagements with US policing strategies functioned as roll-back discourses promoting local shifts in power relations. Policy transfer was often not intended and roll-out remained contingent, yet cannot incidentally be characterized as neoliberal.

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