保护
殖民主义
嫌疑犯
社会学
公司治理
全球城市
政治学
人的安全
空格(标点符号)
政治经济学
法学
犯罪学
经济
语言学
哲学
医学
护理部
财务
作者
Nora Naji,Darja Schildknecht
出处
期刊:Geopolitics
[Taylor & Francis]
日期:2024-01-02
卷期号:: 1-24
被引量:1
标识
DOI:10.1080/14650045.2023.2294803
摘要
Global counterterrorism has deeply influenced urban arrangements in cities across the world, so too in Nairobi. After the Westgate attack in 2013, new modes of security governance have appeared and actively changed neighbourhoods in the capital. These new urban security arrangements build on and perpetuate, however, existing security dispositifs in the city rooted in British settler colonialism. This article therefore discusses how global counterterrorism structures manifest in and sustain racialised local security arrangements, investigating the role of spatiality within counterterrorism narratives. Taking the case of the postcolonial city of Nairobi, the article explores the two neighbourhoods of Karen and Eastleigh where security arrangements manifest in distinct ways, namely through safeguarding affluent communities from the 'suspect' Other who needs to be surveilled and policed. To that end, two historical security systems are embedded in urban space: Private security guarding in Karen and Nyumba Kumi in Eastleigh. The authors hence critically analyse how space governs communities, shapes subjectivities and contributes to sustaining racialised violence in the postcolonial city of Nairobi.
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