Sep 11, 2007Surveillance, Gentrification American Political Science Association: Drop the § 129a charges The urban section of the American Political Science Association (worldwide membership: over 15.000) passed a resolution to condemn the charges...
Sep 07, 2007Security, Surveillance, Gentrification Neil Smith: German GWOT Misfire [from The Nation, September 24, 2007 ] [german version is here: http://einstellung.so36.net/en/ps/296] The signs from Europe on the...
Aug 24, 2007Security, Surveillance, Gentrification RC21 demands to drop charges The influential Research Committee on Urban and Regional Development (RC21) of the International Sociological Association (ISA) sends a letter of...
Aug 23, 2007Security, Surveillance, Gentrification American Sociological Association: Letter to the Federal Prosecutor We just received a letter of support from the governing council of the American Sociological Association, representing over 14.000 sociologists in...
Aug 16, 2007Security, Surveillance, Gentrification Open letter to the Generalbundesanwaltschaft against the criminalization of critical academic research and political engagement On 31st July 2007 the flats and workplaces of Dr. Andrej H. and Dr. Matthias B., as well as of five other persons, were searched by the police. Dr....
Aug 10, 2007Security, Surveillance, Gentrification Don't use the G-Word: Criminalization of critical academic research in Germany We learned last week that two of our friends and colleagues, Andrej H. and Mathias B., are charged with “membership in a terrorist association...
Aug 03, 2007Security, Housing Nik Theodore and Ryan Hollon on non-state forms of policing in Chicago Our friend Nik Theodore and Ryan Hollon talk about non-state forms of policing in the Chicago public housing market (external link to the Chicago...
Apr 25, 2007Conferences, 2003, Security, Urbanization Nik Theodore: Beyond the New Paternalism Beyond the New Paternalism This is the first article from a book and a conference we did on the connection between social housing and (un)employment...
Apr 13, 2007Security, Urbanization, Workfare, Housing, Books Review: Living and Working on the edge Eick, Volker/Sambale, Jens (Hg): Sozialer Wohnungsbau, Arbeitsmarkt(re)integration und der neoliberale Wohlfahrtsstaat in der Bundesrepublik und...
Mar 23, 2007Security, Surveillance, CCTV Eric Töpfer, Frank Helten (2005): CCTV surveillance in France: Marianne and her Big Brothers Since the late 1980s France is experiencing a rise of CCTV which puts an increasing number of cities under visual surveillance. In 2005 nearly 300...
Feb 17, 2007Security, Private Security Special Issue - Privatization and Resistance: Contesting Neoliberal Globalization Some of you attenting the INURA Retreat in Trebnitz (close to Berlin) in 2003 may remember that we discussed the issue of security and neoliberal...
Oct 09, 2006Security, Private Security Two new contributions by Volker Eick on "Quartiersmanagement" and neoliberal urbanism Find an article and a presenation from Volker on privatizing and policing below!
Aug 19, 2006Conferences, 2006, Security, Urbanization Anke Hagemann: Filters, Valves and Locks Architecture is a system of boundaries and connections. It produces and controls different conditions in adjoining spaces, this can relate to...
Aug 06, 2006Conferences, 2006, Security, Surveillance, Workfare Lori Beth Way: Re-Policing the Poor Americans have become increasingly unconcerned with the numbers of individuals who are incarcerated in this country (Garland, 2001). In essence,...
Aug 06, 2006Conferences, 2006, Security, CCTV, Surveillance Eric Töpfer:Unleashed: The World Cup 2006 as Catalyst Public area CCTV has become an essential strategy of space control and criminal justice in the post-Fordist entrepreneurial city and the neoliberal...
