Apr 07, 2013Security, 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, 2012Security, 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, 2012Security, 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, 2011Security, 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, 2011Security 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...
Jun 14, 2010Security, 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, 2010Security, Conferences, 2010, Urbanization 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, 2010Security, Conferences, 2010, Abstracts, Workfare 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,...
Jun 14, 2010Security, Conferences, 2010, Abstracts, CCTV Phoenix from the Ashes? Urban CCTV Surveillance in Crisis In face of the global recession capitalism was recently suspected to be the "biggest enemy of surveillance" (Murakami Wood 2009) as operating costs...
Jun 14, 2010Security, Conferences, 2010, Abstracts Obstacles to Community Policing Implementation. Community policing has been designed in the United States after the 1960s riots to address the conflict between police and minorities in...
Jun 14, 2010Security, Conferences, 2010, Abstracts Private policing in neoliberal societies .This one needs more text The purpose of this paper is to provide a reflection on key developments in ‘plural policing’ since the author’s case study research on security...
Jun 14, 2010Security, Conferences, 2010, Abstracts The World Gun Crisis The paper will explore the idea of weaponization - specifically 'pistolization' – as a manifestation of contemporary crisis. Using examples of...
Jun 14, 2010Security, Conferences, 2010, Abstracts When private and public policing merge: Thoughts on commercial policing It’s common knowledge that the field of security has gone through dramatic transformations, these last years, most notably because of the growth of...
Jun 14, 2010Security, Conferences, 2010, Abstracts, Surveillance Razing Arizona: Policing and the Politics of Citizenship On April 23, 2010 Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed SB 1070 into law. The new law, which will go into effect on July 29, 2010, requires local law...
Jun 14, 2010Security, Conferences, 2010, Abstracts Suppressing the ‘discourses of discontent’: The ‘spatial choreography’ of protest and passivity in post-communist society This paper charts the eruption of popular protest in the Baltic States of Latvia and Lithuania in response to crisis-driven government austerity...
