Riskfylld socialisering i området som policyproblem: Policyn CTC som rumskapande biopolitisk maktteknologi

Sammanfattning: In this thesis I use a feminist poststructuralist framework to analyse a policy document within the program Communities That Care, implemented in Malmö, Sweden. This urban security initiative makes the socialization of children and youth its object, and problematizes the social and built organisation of local areas as a root cause of urban insecurity. It creates spaces for intervention (CTC-areas) and other biopolitical categorisations in line with universalizing prevention expertise, in order to put in place a circulation of ”prosocial” and productive norms and identifications. In my analysis I trace how truths and governability are produced through this policy in relation to the urban terrain. I identify CTC as a biopolitical technology that risks distributing life chances and safety unevenly in the population. I problematize the supposed neutrality of the program, and the creation of CTC-areas as a merely administrative choice. I discuss how certain forms of local visibility, combined with implicit racialized, classed, ableist and gendered norms, tend to have potentially harmful, stigmatizing and marginalizing effects on both local and large scale. I discuss how the policy's problematization of the area as not-yet-arranged makes way for certain forms of centralized statehood, expertise and security mechanisms. This statehood relies on creating spaces of security and visible socializing units therein, that become objects for risk calculations and normalizing and disciplinary interventions. I conclude that the urban inhabitants and their assigned spaces also become objects for affective forms of governmentality – identified in neoliberal regimes by many critical feminist political scientists. Like local biopolitical data, affective technologies within CTC create deeper knowledge of the area, make space for centralized security mechanisms and strive to produce local norm surveilling communities in line with certain criminological truths.