What is the role of policing within urban contexts marked by economic dispossession, crime, and gang violence? This article grapples with this question by examining both policing practices and the strategies of resistance embraced by residents of El Guayacán, a predominantly black neighborhood in the outskirts of Cali, Colombia. I argue that policing is not only about repression but also about enforcing spatial‐racial boundaries and administering social death. On the one hand, targeting black bodies and black places as the problem of urban security provides police a spatial fix (to borrow from critical geographers) for broad anxieties around crime. On the other hand, the discursive and material production of unruly bodies and ungovernable spaces justifies state disinvestment, social abandonment, and police aggression against racialized others.

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拒绝治理：城市警务，帮派暴力和非洲裔哥伦比亚棚户区的邪恶政治

在以经济剥夺，犯罪和帮派暴力为特征的城市环境中，维持治安的作用是什么？本文通过研究警务实践和ElGuayacán居民所接受的抵抗策略来解决这个问题，ElGuayacán是哥伦比亚卡利郊区的一个主要是黑人社区。我认为，维持治安不仅与镇压有关，而且与加强空间种族界限和管理社会死亡有关。一方面，针对黑人尸体和黑人场所作为城市安全问题，为警察提供了一个空间定位（从重要的地理学家那里借用），以解决围绕犯罪的广泛焦虑。另一方面，不守法的尸体和不可统治的空间的话语和物质生产证明了国家的投资减少，社会抛弃和警察对种族化他人的侵略是合理的。