International Centre for Comparative Criminology (ICCC)/
Université de Montréal
WORKSHOP: CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS POLICING
OF/THROUGH FLOWS: NEW PERSPECTIVES
12-13 NOVEMBER 2015
For the past two decades, policing and security research has examined how flows of people, information
and things have changed policing and how, conversely, policing intervenes on and shapes those flows.
The initial pathbreaking forays into these novel conditions include interest for emerging forms of
transnational policing, international drug trafficking control, the regulation of financial flows and money
laundering and the role of information technologies in police work. While continuing to receive interest,
these contemporary trends in policing have been joined by investigations aiming to make sense of new
complex phenomena related to the policing of/through flows. Recent advances have been made in areas
as diverse as the policing of migration, criminal networks, precautionary and risk rationalities, surveillance
of transportation hubs and ports, cross-border environmental crime, cybercrime and online
radicalisation, as well as online surveillance by private interests and governments.
This workshop aims to bring more focus on the theoretical, methodological, epistemological and
empirical contribution that such studies bring to our understanding of the policing of flows and through
flows. We are looking for contributions that seek to revisit the question of flows in policing. We seek
new theoretical language as well as novel prospective and programmatic frameworks that suggest
innovative ways to interrogate flows and how they are mobilized in new forms of policing, establish
objects of study, frame research questions, lead empirical investigations and provide scholarly analyses of
policing and flows.
We invite papers interested in, but not limited to, the following themes relating to the policing
of flows:
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how organizations and policing structures cope with, govern through or fail to adapt to flows;
how new devices, policies, regulations and legal frameworks interact with and alter decisionmaking and practices;
changes and continuities in the symbolic and epistemic nature of policing;
the emergence of new global harms and the transformation of old ones;
novel forms of surveillance, constraints and freedoms promoted by the policing of flows;
the regulatory and democratic challenges presented by such forms of policing.
We are also open to other angles not outlined, but only as they relate to research on policing
of/through flows. Empirical studies solely highlighting research results without engaging with the theme
of the workshop will not be included.
Abstracts
Potential presenters should express their interest before 15th April, 2015.
Complete abstracts should be submitted by 21th April, 2015.
Abstract submissions should include a title as well as the name, affiliation and email address of the
author. Expression of interest and abstract may be submitted electronically to [email protected] and [email protected].
Papers
The deadline for paper submission is 30th October, 2015.
Funding
The organizing committee is currently seeking funds to cover participants’ traveling expenses.
However, in the event such funding could not be obtained, participants should be able to cover their
expenses.
Organizing committee:
Anthony Amicelle, Karine Côté-Boucher, Benoît Dupont, Massimiliano Mulone and Samuel Tanner
(ICCC)
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