Abstract

GONCALVES, Gonçalo Rocha. Technologies of Government: Police Stations, Urban Space, and Bureaucracy in Lisbon, c. 1850-1910. e-JPH [online]. 2017, vol.15, n.2, pp.45-66. ISSN 1645-6432.

The evolution of police stations reveals crucial aspects in the modern development of the police force and of policing practices in general. The spatial rationalities involved in the territorialization of the State, the formation of different spaces where the sociocultural and technical dynamics of the police were engendered, and the emergence of places through which communities could visualize and interact with the State were all major components of this process. This article seeks to examine these issues, assessing their significance for the working lives of policemen and for the interactions between the police and the local population in Lisbon in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

Keywords : Police; State-Building; Territorialization; Bureaucracy; Lisbon.

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