Nov 12, 2011Homelessness, 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”...
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, 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...
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
Jan 26, 2009Labor, Urbanization Good jobs, nae jobs, bad jobs: Skills, workfare and struggles over work. Alternative Economy Strategy seminar. Political concerns over work and employment in recent years have firmly centred around two main issues. Firstly, training policy has increasingly...
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...
Oct 20, 2008Urbanization Redefinition of public space within the privatization of cities: Call for papers We will attend and so should you: The "5th international conference of the the research network private urban governance and gated communities" takes...
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...
Oct 20, 2007Urbanization, Gentrification, Homelessness Neil Smith: Gentrification in Berlin and the Revanchist State Neil Smith, author of the seminal book "The urban frontier" (1996) and countless articles on gentrification, spatial scales, globalization and state...
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...
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 09, 2007Conferences, 2005, Books, Workfare, Housing Andrej Holm: Hartz IV und die Konturen einer neoliberalen Wohnungspolitik (2005) What follows is an analysis by Andrej Holm on the emerging of a neoliberal housing regime in Germany - part and parcel of the new workfare regime....
