TY - JOUR AU - Khodzhaeva, Ekaterina PY - 2012/02/01 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Private and Public in the Spatial Organization of Everyday Practices of Neighborhood Police Officers (An Attempt at an Ethnographic Study) JF - Laboratorium: Russian Review of Social Research JA - Laboratorium VL - 3 IS - 3 SE - Articles DO - UR - https://soclabo.org/index.php/laboratorium/article/view/264 SP - 18-52 AB - <p>This article is an ethnographic study of the spatial aspects of the everyday life of neighborhood police officers, based on participant observation conducted in Kazan&amp;apos; in 2007. It analyzes forms of neighborhood policemen&rsquo;s professional activities and four types of professional spaces where their work takes place: (1) the precinct&mdash;the primary (often spatially disordered) area of the officer&rsquo;s supervision and the space for basic practices of self-presentation to the controlled population; (2) the neighborhood in general and, in particular, the space of the precinct station where officers&rsquo; primary professional solidarity is formed and where, as a rule, structured interactions with the local population happen; (3) the space of the district police department, which usually appears to the &ldquo;ordinary&rdquo; neighborhood police officer as &ldquo;the bosses&rsquo; territory&rdquo; and therefore as &ldquo;other&rdquo; and &ldquo;hostile&rdquo; space; (4) the citywide space beyond the precinct, where professional duties are often perceived negatively and treated as a violation of policemen&rsquo;s labor rights. <em>In Russian, extensive summary in English</em>.</p> ER -