Post by account_disabled on Mar 4, 2024 3:46:13 GMT -5
In a testimony collected in the Amnesty International report, Spain: the right to protest threatened, 2014, from one of the many fined activists, “low-intensity repression” is doing a lot of damage to social movements. Furthermore, to avoid paying fines, activists have to enter an endless and cumbersome bureaucratic hell. According to the aforementioned María Luisa Maqueda Abreu, but in another article The criminalization of public space. The unstoppable rise of the dangerous classes, the Citizen Security Law exhibits, in short, those signs, very visible, that are typical of modern "authoritarian democracies" that pride themselves on "defending society" through a disproportionate increase in instruments of control against any form of resistance and that proclaim that rights are at the mercy of the "reason of state", of a police state that needs the colonization of laws for its survival.
The reorganization of institutions for the production of a secure order The new Citizen Security Law and its predictable chilling effects on the exercise of democratic freedoms. The characteristic sign of authoritarian states today is the reorganization of institutions for the production of a secure order. Neoliberal Australia Phone Number governmentality becomes impossible without a continuum of disciplinary devices designed to normalize, to produce obedience, not only through well-disposed police apparatuses but also through appropriate regulations that encourage their excesses and censor any public expression of dissent. Once again, the institutional slogan is that “problematic subjects” are excluded from ordered spaces because their presence contaminates them.
Michel Foucault called them “regularized mechanisms of power”, that is, disciplinary mechanisms that imply a reduction in the city itself, in the visibility of individuals, normalizing behavior, a kind of spontaneous police control that is thus exercised by the same disposition. space of the city. Madrid police concentration And the safeguarding of citizen security has become a primary ideological pretext to guarantee this exclusion. The uncertainty of the concept allows state demands for public order to exceed real risk expectations and the list of infractions is always increasing. The new Citizen Security law has become an expressive testing ground. To the endless number of behaviors already considered antisocial by the old municipal regulations, (graffiti and graffiti, request for sexual services in certain areas of public use, possession or consumption of drugs or alcoholic beverages on public roads, aggressive or negligent behavior with the street furniture, unauthorized street vending.
The reorganization of institutions for the production of a secure order The new Citizen Security Law and its predictable chilling effects on the exercise of democratic freedoms. The characteristic sign of authoritarian states today is the reorganization of institutions for the production of a secure order. Neoliberal Australia Phone Number governmentality becomes impossible without a continuum of disciplinary devices designed to normalize, to produce obedience, not only through well-disposed police apparatuses but also through appropriate regulations that encourage their excesses and censor any public expression of dissent. Once again, the institutional slogan is that “problematic subjects” are excluded from ordered spaces because their presence contaminates them.
Michel Foucault called them “regularized mechanisms of power”, that is, disciplinary mechanisms that imply a reduction in the city itself, in the visibility of individuals, normalizing behavior, a kind of spontaneous police control that is thus exercised by the same disposition. space of the city. Madrid police concentration And the safeguarding of citizen security has become a primary ideological pretext to guarantee this exclusion. The uncertainty of the concept allows state demands for public order to exceed real risk expectations and the list of infractions is always increasing. The new Citizen Security law has become an expressive testing ground. To the endless number of behaviors already considered antisocial by the old municipal regulations, (graffiti and graffiti, request for sexual services in certain areas of public use, possession or consumption of drugs or alcoholic beverages on public roads, aggressive or negligent behavior with the street furniture, unauthorized street vending.