Nov 12, 2011Jens SambaleHomelessness, 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, 2010Kendra Briken & Volker EickSecurity, Conferences, 2010 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, 2010Bernd BelinaSecurity, Conferences, 2010 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, 2009Volker EickUrbanization, 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, 2009Volker EickSecurity, 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, 2009Jens SambaleLabor, 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, 2008Jens SambaleUrbanization, 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, 2008Moses BoudouridesSecurity, 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, 2008Jens SambaleUrbanization 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...
