Apr 07, 2013Volker EickSecurity, Surveillance Drone War Is Coming Home: A View from across the Ocean Since Nobel Peace Prize laureate and US president Barack Obama began targeted killings of supposed Islamic terrorists using Special Forces and the...
Oct 13, 2012Volker EickSecurity, Private Security, Unions Private Security Provision – Still a Highly Contested Terrain in Germany Earlier this year, Volker Eick spoke with two experts on private security in Germany representing the industry and the unions, respectively. Oliver...
Jun 01, 2012Kendra Briken and Volker EickSecurity, Private Security, Surveillance Policing the Crisis – Policing in Crisis (Social Justice, 38(1-2), 2011) Urban space has long been a highly CONTESTED terrain despite the myths of accessible public space for all, the Greek agora being one example. Today,...
Dec 07, 2011Volker EickSecurity, Private Security A Charter for Boarding: The German Government Contracts out Counter-Piracy Operations On high seas, ashore and in the air: In recent years, the various federal governments in Germany have failed to turn the armed forces into another...
Nov 23, 2011Luis FernandezSecurity Luis Fernandez: On Arizona's immigration laws and policing as counter insurgency We talked to our comrade and colleague Luis Fernandez, author of "Policing Dissent" (2008) and co-author of "Shutting Down the Streets" (2011), in...
Nov 12, 2011Jens SambaleHomelessness, Urbanization Review of: The Culture of Homelessness by Megan Ravenhill Note: A version of this review appeared in: Urban Studies, February 2010, 47 (2), pg. 461-462. Every book with a title including “The Culture of” is...
Jun 14, 2010Kendra Briken & Volker EickSecurity, Conferences, 2010 Urban Security Work Spaces: Policing the Crisis - Policing in Crisis The 21st century is witnessing what has been called the »pluralization of policing« (Jones & Newburn, 2006; cf. Eick et al., 2007): Private security...
Jun 14, 2010Kendra Briken & Volker EickSecurity, Conferences, 2010 Introduction: Urban Security Work Spaces Policing the Crisis – Policing in Crisis The 21st century is witnessing what has been called the »pluralization of policing« (Jones & Newburn, 2006): Private security companies have...
Jun 14, 2010Volker EickSecurity, Conferences, 2010 Decommodification by Dispossession? (Non-)Volunteering Long-Term Unemployed on the Security Market In January 2005, the then Social Democratic-Green Government of Germany introduced the so-called Hartz Laws (Hartz IV). With this legislation,...
