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The purpose of The Subjective Effects of the Crime Prevention Device within the Framework of Security Governmentality is to analyze the effects of subjectivation that have been induced by government initiatives related to crime prevention, implemented since the beginning of the 2000s, within the framework of the municipal government of Rosario (Santa Fe, Argentina). The research aims to detect the tendencies that the preventive devices favor to constitute certain types of subjects -individuals and collectives- and not others. And the way in which this is linked to the logics of politicization in the scenario of democratic practices at the local level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research focuses on reconstructing the way (in)security was installed as problematic in the municipality of Rosario, Argentina. Targets revolve around tracking the key location of local government in the city's strategic positioning on the national and international map and to find out how local government has been urbanly and institutionally assuming security production through a series of crime prevention initiatives. It is noted that the local is revalued as a scale to govern by responding to a reconfiguration of the exercise of power where he places him as a great translator of international organizations' guidelines on urban policies for crime prevention. Cities are beginning to become a territory conducive, in terms of scale, to put into operation various experiences that make up them in institutional laboratorios. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to analyze a series of publicprivate urban initiatives implemented from 2007 to 2015 in Rosario, Argentina from a governmental perspective. It is argued that embellishment, entertaining and mobility projects are intended to show the "downtown area of the city" and those who inhabit, move and consume within this area as healthy, happy, enterprising and cool individuals, both at the national and international levels. These projects are based on emotions, controlling desires and choices made by people and building different "cool" urban habitation practices aimed to promote consumption. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]