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...
Jul 26, 2007Conferences, 2003, Urbanization, Homelessness Paul Tepper: Welfare Checks Can’t Cover Rent for Downtown’s Homeless Our friend Paul Tepper just published an op-ed in the Los Angeles Business Journal about welfare, housing and homelessness. While many Europeans...
Apr 27, 2007Conferences, 2003, Workfare, Housing, Books Jacqueline Leavitt: Jobs and Public Housing - Old Programs and New Paradigms Public housing in the United States and Los Angeles began as a jobs program but job training programs are a relatively recent intervention in public...
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...
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, Urbanization Jenny Künkel: Sex, Crime and Real Men "An influx of up to 40,000 prostitutes, mainly from Eastern Europe, is expected during the World Cup" - this message circulated by newspaper reports...
May 29, 2006Security, Urbanization We've got a new central train station! Or do we? Maybe the station is a stadium or a mall, after all? Or maybe not. I went there only after an idiot (hate to tell you: from the notorious district Neukölln) ran amok stabbing people during the opening...
Apr 29, 2006Urbanization, Homelessness, Housing Jens Sambale / Volker Eick 2005: Das Berliner Ghetto - ein Missverständnis Recent events (fall 2005) around Paris and France in general triggered a curious interest in Berlin-based journalists from the anglo-saxon press:...
