{"id":853,"date":"2015-01-29T12:22:34","date_gmt":"2015-01-29T11:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imer.w.uib.no\/?p=853"},"modified":"2015-01-29T12:23:04","modified_gmt":"2015-01-29T11:23:04","slug":"first-imer-lunch-spring-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imer.w.uib.no\/?p=853","title":{"rendered":"First IMER Lunch Spring 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"p-description\">\n<h3>Randi Gressg\u00e5rd: Plural policing and the safety\u2013security nexus in urban governance.<\/h3>\n<p>Tuesday 17.2. 2014 @ UNI Rokkan centre Nyg\u00e5rdsgaten 5, Bergen (6 etg)<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/imer.w.uib.no\/files\/2013\/11\/RandiGressgaard2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-610\" src=\"http:\/\/imer.w.uib.no\/files\/2013\/11\/RandiGressgaard2.jpg\" alt=\"RandiGressgaard2\" width=\"120\" height=\"146\" \/><\/a><\/strong>Based on a study of policy frames in urban politics in Sweden, Malm\u00f6 in particular, this article discusses the safety\u2013security nexus in urban governance. It argues that perceived safety figures as an index of order and integration, and security becomes part and parcel of an expanded cohesion agenda which chain-links criminal justice, immigration control and civic integration. The expanded cohesion agenda in urban governance involves plural urban policing enabled by partnership agreements between the police and local authorities.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The article demonstrates how force-based, <em>pre-emptive<\/em> crime-fighting is intertwined with <em>preventative<\/em> empowerment programmes; the \u2018will to power\u2019 is embedded in \u2018the will to empower\u2019. The preferred solution to social problems is extended force-based policing in combination with more police involvement in \u2018social\u2019 governance. It is argued that the expanded social cohesion agenda works to \u2018criminalize\u2019 specific subpopulations by replacing \u2018social\u2019 welfare politics with crime prevention programmes. Under an expanded cohesion agenda, crime prevention has less to do with preventing people from violating the law and more to do with securing the social order. Moreover, it is argued that security politics relates to a broader urban politics aimed at nurturing prosperous diversity considered to benefit the city as a whole, at the cost of problematic difference. In conclusion the article argues that urban security politics lends itself to old welfare state structures, even as responsibility for social crime prevention is devolved \u2018downwards\u2019 and distributed across and array of agencies. The social democratic legacy \u2013 the revised welfare state \u2013 seems to offer favorable conditions for plural policing of minority groups in the city.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Randi Gressg\u00e5rd<\/strong> is\u00a0professor at the Centre for Women\u2019s and Gender Research (SKOK), and affiliated with the research unit International Migration and Ethnic Relations (IMER), University of Bergen.\u00a0Her research interests include migration &amp; minority studies, gender &amp; sexuality studies and urban studies.\u00a0Among her recent publications are\u00a0<em>Multicultural Dialogue: Dilemmas, Paradoxes, Conflicts<\/em>\u00a0(New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2010\/2012) and \u2018The power of (re)attachment in urban strategy: Interrogating the framing of social sustainability in Malm\u00f6\u2019 (<em>Environment and Planning A<\/em> 2014, vol. 46).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Randi Gressg\u00e5rd: Plural policing and the safety\u2013security nexus in urban governance. Tuesday 17.2. 2014 @ UNI Rokkan centre Nyg\u00e5rdsgaten 5, Bergen (6 etg) Based on a study of policy frames in urban politics in Sweden, Malm\u00f6 in particular, this article discusses the safety\u2013security nexus in urban governance. 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