Summary
“In short, the main problem discussed in this thesis is understanding the historicity of the modern nation state and modern societies through the lens of the police project in orchestrating the public sphere. Such a problem immediately calls the significance of the concepts of police and the public sphere into question. From the beginning, I should indicate that despite the formulation of the main problem of this thesis, my main concern is not with the state itself but the public and the agents which, in one way or another, constitute the publics, i.e. the agents of policing that render the existence of the modern state formation possible. In asking questions about the state and police, I mainly draw on two accounts that help resituate the concept of police into critical social and political theory in a more systematic and coherent way: those of Michel Foucault and Mark Neocleous. ”--Page 22.