1st Edition
How Crime Governance Defines the Urban Experience The Maze of Security
Introduction 1. Pushing War to the Edges and the Creation of the Hostile City 2. Recipes for Order: War and the Production of Risk-Based Crime Governance 3. The Urban Gaze and the Privilege of Order 4. War, Risk, and the Maze of Security 5. War, Crime Governance, and the Creation of Order
Biography
Fernando León Tamayo Arboleda is a professor at the University of the Andes in Bogotá. His research focuses on criminology, the sociology of law, and the sociology of punishment. His most recent publications include the book Del Estado al parque and the papers “Understanding contradictory styles of punishment” and “The Inca’s Two Bodies”.
How Crime Governance Defines the Urban Experience offers a powerful and original lens on how the logics of war permeate everyday governance. This book unpacks the uneasy continuities between militarism, crime control, and urban life, revealing how security and privilege are co-produced through practices of exclusion that shape both our cities and our sense of order.
Maartje van der Woude, Author of The Mobility Control Apparatus
In this critical engagement with the ever-present yet unevenly distributed nature of war, Fernando León Tamayo Arboleda unravels the manifest ways in which war saturates the social body, facilitates the extension of police power through everyday life, and allows war to become governance itself. The outcome is a compelling argument about order as both violence and privilege.
Mark Neocleous, Author of Pacification: Social War and the Power of Police
Fernando Tamayo's How Crime Governance Defines the Urban Experience is a bold intervention in contemporary debates about crime and urban governance. The book introduces a scheme that cannot be analysed using the classic models of the colonial and post-colonial world. It is a world where the complex mix of security technologies, highly variable but globally distributed, is mediated by the exposure of specific places to war. A world where carceral logics remain present but increasingly immersed in forms of security, control and exposure to death that bypass the sovereign structures of law and punishment. I expect scholars and security actors will be referencing this framework for many years to come.
Jonathan Simon, Author of Mass Incarceration on Trial
