Description
This chapter builds on the idea that carceral power (the police, the prison, etc.) and economic power (abstract domination stemming from the inner logics of capital) need to be understood in conjunction, rather than in isolation. By thinking with and through the state form, we can see how both forms of power are part and parcel of the everyday manifestation and reproduction of capitalist social relations. One can then see how the perpetuation of the antagonism between capital and labour, and its various articulations with other forms of oppression, such as race and gender, is a lynchpin of this intertwined dynamic.
Zooming in on the violent policing of the Palestine solidarity movement in Berlin and the wider societal impacts of these forms of repression, this chapter aims to make these processes tangible by exploring how the acts of repression and containment can be understood within a wider dynamic of reproducing capitalist social relations within the urban space of Berlin. Understanding the cityscape as a carceral city, the police and adjacent practices, such as surveil-lance, are seen as central in upholding this order, producing subjecthood, and repressing forms of anti-imperialist solidarity.
