%0 Journal Article
%T At the Down of Capitalism: City, Police and Security
%A Erol Suba£¿i
%J -
%D 2018
%X This paper examines the connection between the concept of city and security through the concept of police. The socio-historical relation between police and city today has been forgotten and the meaning of the police concept has narrowed. The police are today either being reduced to a profession-institution whose function is to catch criminals and prevent crimes; or are seen as a repressive apparatus with which dominant classes repress the politicization of subordinate classes. Both approaches are far from capturing the broader socio-political functions that police power as a form of state power have performed in the historical process. Based on this critique, the main argument of this study is that police power does not provide the security of the city just by catching criminals, preventing crimes or repressing the social politicization; but in line with specific socio-political projects, it does so by fabricating specific urban norms, cultural references, identities and behavioural patterns. In this study, this claim will be discussed within the problematic of transition from feudalism to capitalism. Furthermore, in conjunction with the main argument, the study puts forward four interrelated supporting arguments. First, despite the police¡¯s narrowed meaning, the historical and etymological connection between city and the police persists. Second, parallel to the changing meaning of order and social order, the function of the police power has been altered. Third, the police power has assumed a key role in fabrication of bourgeois civil society¡¯s values. Fourth, during the transition from feudalism to capitalism, the police power has played a regulatory role in transforming the dispossessed masses into wage labour
%K Kent
%K polis
%K g¨¹venlik
%K kapitalizm
%K toplumsal d¨¹zen
%U http://dergipark.org.tr/idealkent/issue/36600/416786