The Welfare Police: The Affective Politics of 'Proximity' in the Danish Welfare State.
This article investigates the role of Danish police not as enforcers of sovereign order, but as ambassadors of the welfare state—more specifically an image of the welfare state as a benign, caring, and 'intimate' kind of polity. Focusing on a recent police reform, the article shows how the emic Scan...
| Published in: | Social Analysis Vol. 69; no. 1; pp. 25 - 46 |
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Berghahn Books
2025
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