Jun 14, 2010Security, Conferences, 2010, Abstracts The geography of global governance and the spatial dimension of controlling dissent This paper lays out the theoretical relevance of spatial dimensions in the control of dissent by drawing on recent innovations in social geography,...
Jun 14, 2010Security, Conferences, 2010, Abstracts, Urbanization Ending Public Spaces as We Know Them The idea of free access for everybody is at the core of the “public space” ideology. Just as the idealist notion of the “public sphere” that it...
Jun 14, 2010Security, Conferences, 2010, Abstracts Public-Private Security Provision in the Sex Industry The paper asks how local prostitution regimes are reshaped in the process of urban neoliberalization. Based on a media analysis and interviews with...
Jun 14, 2010Security, Conferences, 2010, Abstracts Brandscapes of Control? The co-construction of subjects and spaces in late capitalism This paper argues that amongst the many new forms of utopian project emerging in late capitalist society, there is a vision emerging from marketing,...
Sep 11, 2009Security, CCTV Eric Töpfer: Video Surveillance as Crime Prevention? Appeal to Change the Perspective What follows is the english abstract of a paper which in its german version will appear in Kriminologisches Journal 4, 2009.
Jul 03, 2009Urbanization, Security Volker Eick: Neighborhood Management meets urban security Lecture given by Volker for the Theory Workshop "Wir bleiben alle" during the "Action Weeks" in Berlin (June 13th 2009)
Jul 03, 2009Security, Urbanization Volker Eick: Urbane Raum-und Räumdienste. Kommerzielles Sicherheitsgewerbe im Neoliberalismus A lecture by Volker: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Universität, Frankfurt/Main Institut für Politik-und Gesellschaftsanalyse 25. Juni 2009
Dec 11, 2008Urbanization, Security 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...
Dec 11, 2008Security, Urbanization Greece - The extreme righ and police are joining forces to quench protests Athen's unrest: We received the following text today from the INURA list server. Moses Boudourides (Patras University) describes how the extreme...
Nov 04, 2008Security, Private Security G4S Security: The Inequality beneath India's Economic Boom In India 5,500 private security workers have been successful in fighting against their bosses. A court ruled that the workers are protected against...
Jun 22, 2008Security, Private Security George Rigakos: Nightclub. Bouncers, Risk, and the Spectacle of Consumption Bouncers: Regulating Al Capone's Grandchildren? A Marxist entering Canada's nightlife economy. Interview with George S. Rigakos, author...
May 23, 2008Security, Surveillance Revanchism: The Sheriff of Nottingham reloaded Beware of snitches in your research department - especially if you do not share our fair complexion. We just received the following email and it...
Feb 17, 2008Books, 2007, Security, Urbanization Kontrollierte Urbanität: On Air We received the pleasure to be noticed by a radio station - and not a minor one. Enjoy ten minutes of audio following the link below.
Jan 13, 2008Security, Urbanization Eric Töpfer, Volker Eick, Jens Sambale: Business Improvement Districts New Instrument for Containment and Exclusion Lessons from North America and Britain. Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) are territorial subdivisions of a city in which property owners or businesses decide to self-impose an...
Sep 16, 2007Conferences, 2006, Security, Urbanization World Cup 2010: Privatizing Security in South Africa (G4S) In April 2007 a global fact finding team from different unions went to South Africa, Malawi and Mozambique to find out about the employment practices...
