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The politics of pre-emption

Topic
Surveillance Public order Policing
Country/Region
Germany

28 January 2019

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"Security forces increasingly use data-driven crowd control techniques to pre-empt unpredictable situations. Unlike traditional prevention methods, pre-emptive policing actively engenders crowd behaviour – and in doing so interferes with the basic conditions for political agency, argues Krystian Woznicki."

See: The politics of pre-emption (Eurozine, link)

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