This article examines the plight of homeless peoples in Phnom Penh, Cambodia as a consequence of their enmeshment in a new logic of urban governance being rolled out by city officials and municipal planners. The widespread adoption of neoliberal economics has resulted in a globalised version of urban entrepreneurialism, to which Phnom Penh is a participant. The (re)production of enterprise zones, cultural spectacles, waterfront development, and privatised forms of local governance all reflect the powerful disciplinary effects of interurban competition as cities aggressively engage in mutually destructive place‐marketing policies. Against this neoliberal backdrop, the ongoing pattern of violence utilised by municipal authorities against homeless peoples in Phnom Penh is part of a gentrifying process that the local government has dubbed a ‘beautification’ agenda. Of particular concern is how city officials have begun actively promoting the criminalization of the urban homeless and poor through arbitrary arrests and illegal detention, holding them in so‐called re‐education or ‘rehabilitation’ centres. Yet these centres are not what they seem. Such euphemisms attempt to mask the systemic abuse of marginalised peoples who are deemed to present Phnom Penh in a negative light and are consequently unwanted on the streets of the capital city.

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无家可归者的暴力：柬埔寨对穷人的战争中的流放和任意拘留

本文考察了柬埔寨金边无家可归者的困境，这是由于他们陷入了城市官员和市政规划者推出的新的城市治理逻辑之中。新自由主义经济学的广泛采用导致了城市企业家主义的全球化版本，金边也参与其中。企业区的（再）生产，文化景观，滨水区开发以及地方治理的私有化形式都反映了城市间竞争激烈的城市间竞争性市场营销政策的强大纪律作用。在新自由主义的背景下，市政当局对金边无家可归者的持续暴力模式是当地政府将其美化的一部分，被当地政府称为“美化”议程。特别令人担忧的是，城市官员如何通过任意逮捕和非法拘留，将他们关押在所谓的再教育或“康复”中心，积极开始将城市无家可归者和穷人定为犯罪。但是这些中心并不像它们看起来的那样。这种委婉语试图掩盖对边缘化人民的系统性虐待，这些人被视为不利于金边的代表，因此在首都的街道上不受欢迎。特别令人担忧的是，城市官员如何通过任意逮捕和非法拘留，将他们关押在所谓的再教育或“康复”中心，积极开始将城市无家可归者和穷人定为犯罪。但是这些中心并不像它们看起来的那样。这种委婉语试图掩盖对边缘化人民的系统性虐待，这些人被视为不利于金边的代表，因此在首都的街道上不受欢迎。特别令人担忧的是，城市官员如何通过任意逮捕和非法拘留，将他们关押在所谓的再教育或“康复”中心，积极开始将城市无家可归者和穷人定为犯罪。但是这些中心并不像它们看起来的那样。这种委婉语试图掩盖对边缘化人民的系统性虐待，这些人被视为不利于金边的代表，因此在首都的街道上不受欢迎。