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This paper examines the agency of Arab urban spaces in shaping local policing arrangements in Israel using a recent experiment with Combined Municipal Policing (CMP) in the city of Nazareth as a case study. Departing from prevailing analytical approaches to the study of local governance in Arab urban localities in Israel, it adopts a distributive notion of agency that addresses both the role of (uneven) arrangements of power in producing Arab-only urban spaces, as well as the role of (uneven) material assemblages and infrastructures of power—road networks, in particular—in generating, and frustrating, local policing arrangements within them. Building on a critique of ethnocratic theory as it relates to Arab-only localities in particular, it argues that changes in local policing arrangements should not be viewed simply as a sophistication of prevailing mechanisms of control, but rather as an interactional consequence of a more complex spatial regime of power that reveals the latent, unintended, and immanent political potency of the (Arab) city to talk to, with, and back to power.
Author(s): McGahern U
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: International Political Sociology
Year: 2016
Volume: 10
Issue: 3
Pages: 206-222
Print publication date: 01/09/2016
Online publication date: 20/06/2016
Acceptance date: 11/01/2016
Date deposited: 10/03/2016
ISSN (print): 1749-5679
ISSN (electronic): 1749-5687
Publisher: Oxford University Press
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ips/olw008
DOI: 10.1093/ips/olw008
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