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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
