ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the theoretical tools employed in the book and drawn upon the philosophies of becoming of Deleuze, Guattari and Simondon: information/individuation; body/space and individual/environment; ethical concepts: good, bad, affect, conatus; lawscape/atmosphere; time. Then, the chapter highlights their interconnections with: the fieldwork with the London Metropolitan Police, the tenant enforcement officers, and the social housing residents in Lambeth borough; the ethnographic and autoethnographic methodologies. In particular, the purpose of the latter is to allow the researcher to ‘become the space’ she is studying, as well as to understand the evolution of her body throughout the process of becoming-criminal-space and becoming-secured-space. This entails the researcher being ethically affected by the space, and physically and sensorially feeling the way in which information moves her own evolution, whether in a linear or nonlinear fashion. The chapter also mentions the lawscaping of the author in other areas in London, such as: Camden, City of London, Southwark, Greenwich, Docklands, and Croydon.
