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Markus Buderath

Doctoral Researcher

E-Mail: markus.buderath@uni-bielefeld.de

Phone: +49 521 106-67634

Office: Gebäude X B2-218, Locations Map

Postbox: Nr. 398 im Gebäude X - Magistrale - Ebene C2

Doctoral Project:
Making the good cop: Policing, nation branding and human rights in Scotland

Biography

Since 10/2023

Doctoral Researcher at the Research Training Group "World Politics", Bielefeld University
04/2023-09/2023 Policy Advisor for Tourism and Development, Brot für die Welt, Berlin
10/2019-02/2022 Analyst, adelphi, Berlin

12/2018-09/2019

Student Assistant, Freie Universität Berlin

"Rechtsstaatsförderungs-Hub" (ruel of law promotion hub)
10/2018-08/2022 MA Interdisciplinary Latin American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
02/2018-08/2018 Development Intern, Bruegel, Brussels
03/2017-07/2017 Project assistant, Unrepresented Nations and People Organizations (UNPO), Brussels
09/2015-10/2016 MA Conflicts Studies and Human Rights, Utrecht University
06/2013-09/2013 Research Intern, Netherlands´ Institute of International Relations Clingendael, The Hague
09/2010-03/2014 BA Liberal Arts & Sciences, Tilburg University

Focusing on Police Scotland as a case study, my project is concerned with knowledge production and mobility in the field of policing, as well as with the latter’s relevance to processes of nation-branding, understood here provisionally as political communication practices aiming to improve a country’s image on the international stage. Police Scotland was founded in 2013, two years after the Scottish National Party won the 2011 parliamentary elections with a campaign promise to hold a referendum on Scottish independence from the UK. After an initial backlash to the policing changes, the new Scottish police organization initiated further changes, emphasizing its commitment to upholding a human rights-based approach to policing. Notably, in recent years, Police Scotland has made increasing efforts to position itself as an expert on this matter.

In 2021, the then First Minister Nicola Sturgeon opened the Police Scotland International Academy with the set intention to support human rights throughout the world. The Academy serves as a hub for the coordination of Police Scotland’s international police assistance. Against the backdrop of these developments, and taking from International Relations and criminological approaches, my research examines the linkages between policing changes, independence politics and nation-branding processes in the UK’s northernmost nation. In doing so, it challenges some common assumptions about why the police embark on reform processes and adopt particular policing philosophies, highlighting the important role of cultural-political factors in these processes.

  • Buderath, M. (with Matthew Heath) (2021). "Fuerza Civil: Capital Accumulation and Social Control in Nuevo León, Mexico." Latin American Perspectives 48 (1): 163-83. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0094582X20975011.

  • Buderath, M (with Dickhoff, Vera and M. Carl-Magnus) (2020). “Mapping the Global Cold War: the unfolding of Brot für die Welt project no. 2747 in Colombia, 1977-1984.” Global Histories 6 (1): 9-27. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/GHSJ.2020.378

Buderath, M. (2024). ‘From National to Global Dynamics? De-constructing National Narratives in 19th and 20th Century Europe’, Spring School, Blended Intensive Program (NEOLAiA alliance), April 22 to April 26, Örebro University, Sweden.

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