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Tuesday 12. of May 2009

Analysing the present from a critical criminology perspective: pre-crime and post-criminology? Call for Papers

The Department of Law and Society at the Vienna Institute for Criminology and the Sociology of Law, the Department of Human Geography at Goethe University Frankfurt and the Working Group of Young Criminologists are delighted to...


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Category: Abstracts & Papers, Security, Presentation, Control Security

Monday 26. of January 2009

Good jobs, nae jobs, bad jobs: Skills, workfare and struggles over work. Alternative Economy Strategy seminar.

Glasgow: Real Work Experience

Political concerns over work and employment in recent years have firmly centred around two main issues. Firstly, training policy has increasingly focussed on questions concerning skills and individual employability. New skills...


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Category: Abstracts & Papers, Presentations, welfare & workfare

Thursday 11. of December 2008

LumpenCity: Call for Abstracts: Interdisciplinary Conference at York University

Toronto, Canada | March 12-13, 2009 | www.lumpencity.com Lumpen-City: Discourses of Marginality | Marginalizing Discourses Research on marginalized urban residents has been an academic cottage industry throughout the history...


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Category: Repression, Security Security

Thursday 11. of December 2008

Greece - The extreme righ and police are joining forces to quench protests

They shot Alex Grigoropoulos

Athen's unrest: We received the following text today from the INURA list server. Moses Boudourides (Patras University) describes how the extreme right, local shop owners and the police are chasing students and youth in general....


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Tuesday 04. of November 2008

G4S Security: The Inequality beneath India's Economic Boom

G4S Security Worker in India

In India 5,500 private security workers have been successful in fighting against their bosses. A court ruled that the workers are protected against loosing their jobs while fighting for their overtime premiums. We are providing...


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Category: Security, Control, Repression