ABSTRACT
Aristotle claimed in his De Anima: ‘Nequaquam sine phantasmate intelligit anima’, which means ‘The soul does not know at all without a phantasm’ (Pomponazzi 1948: 318). Regarding the port securityscape, this means that, in order to understand it, I had to imagine it before, during and after fieldwork, from a criminological perspective. This chapter presents that criminological imagination of the port securityscape by focusing on, in the first instance, the relevance of a criminological imagination. Second, I will argue that it was crucial to incorporate the theoretical approaches from International Security Studies (ISS), in particular the Copenhagen School to, subsequently, move onto an evaluation of the security concept and its socio-historical context. Third, a historical overview of how PoH and PoR have developed follows and, fourth, the influence of the ISPS Code on the port will be explained. Finally, the canteen cultures of police and security occupations will be considered in light of the criminological imagination of the port securityscape.
