Historically, policing in Rio de Janeiro has been shaped by the equation of racialized violence and masculinity. Attempts to reform police have paradoxically drawn on forms male that are centered rational professional use force “softer” practices, such as dialogue collaboration, symbolically coded feminine. The failure reflects cultural salience understandings masculinity around within police, ...

Building on Foucault's perspective of governmentality, this article focuses how influencers in Hong Kong China (HK) operate as agents/mediators governmentality and “governmentality” occurs over through lifestyle responsible, productive, self-disciplined citizen subjects the Chinese biggest sharing platform—Xiaohongshu (Red). By employing a collaboration walkthrough ethnographic methods, examine...

Over the last 20 years, the voice of business and its impact upon Australian vocational education have transformed. These changes range from enterprise reluctance to be involved through to industry determining what is taught and assessed, and how, as well as the principles for administering vocational education, and attempts to use vocational education to reform the schooling system. These tran...

In recent years there has been a growing interest in new participatory forms of urban governance. This introduction provides readers with a basic review of current debates in the literature and a summary of the articles presented in the symposium. The introduction highlights two major tensions in the literature. First, many scholars operate under an assumption that plural actors can achieve a l...

This paper seeks to examine the extent to which recent legislative changes have introduced ’the market’, as a mode of control or discipline, into schools. In exploring these recent changes the paper examines the legislation in the context of a wider set of factors affecting the public sector as a whole. Whilst earlier legislation provided some initial impetus, and later legislation consolidated...

Since the early 1990s, strategies for the Information Society have affected the UK’s social and economic policies and the emergence of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in local communities. Contemporary ICTs are suited to handling complex processes so affecting society’s structures and the ways in which people participate in social, cultural, political and economic life. The te...