Positive loitering and public goods: The ambivalence of civic participation and community policing in the neoliberal city
This article examines a community policing practice called 'positive loitering' – a strategy devised to eradicate the public occurrences of 'negative loitering' and informal labor markets in a gentrifying Chicago neighborhood. By analyzing the everyday rhetorics and practices aro...
| Veröffentlicht in: | Ethnography. - SAGE Publications. - 12(2011), 1, Seite 65-88 |
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| Format: | Online-Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | English |
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2011
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| Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk: | Ethnography |
| Schlagworte: | Law Social sciences Applied sciences Economics Behavioral sciences Political science |
| Zusammenfassung: | This article examines a community policing practice called 'positive loitering' – a strategy devised to eradicate the public occurrences of 'negative loitering' and informal labor markets in a gentrifying Chicago neighborhood. By analyzing the everyday rhetorics and practices around 'positive loitering' protests, this ethnographic case study focuses on the multifarious and nuanced channels by which the material inequities of the neoliberal state are remade through the active energies of citizens struggling to define contested public spaces and the future of their neighborhood. |
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| ISSN: | 17412714 |