街头暴力:城市基层政治研究的进路与拓展

Street Violence:Route and Development of Urban Grassroots Politics Researches

都市街头是政府与社会交互作用的政治剧场,也是现代暴力的集中展示区域,更是观察都市治理的窗口。晚清以来,国家权力逐步渗入城市街头社会这一由地方精英和社区主导的治理领域,以警察为代表的现代城市管理体系迈出了重要一步。都市街头秩序如何一定程度上取决于都市政权控制街头暴力的能力和方式。作为国家与社会的分界线,街头暴力将成为当代城市政治研究新的学术话题和学术增长点。从宏观的国家政治、抗争政治到微观的街头暴力、街头治理,城市政治的研究范式已经转换。聚焦都市街头暴力与治理经验的治理视角、国家能力理论、经验机制分析方法将共同助推城市政治研究的发展。

City streets are the political arena where state and society interact with each other, and also places of modem violence. Above all, they are windows on urban governance. Since late Qing Dynasty, the state power has gradually permeated into city streets dominated by local elites and communities, among which modern urban governance system represented by the police is an important step. The order in the street, to some extent, depends on the ability and methods of the urban government to control street violence. Being the boundary between state and society, street violence will be new topics of interest in the studies of contemporary urban politics. Researchers on urban politics have shifted their focus from national politics and contention politics to street violence and governance. Focus on street violence and governance experience, the study of the state capacity, and experience mechanism analysis will help develop the studies of urban politics.