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Conference Announcement: Urban Security Work Spaces Policing the Crisis - Policing in Crisis Read
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Montag 14. of Juni 2010
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By: Charles Woolfson: 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 measures. It examines the ‘spatial choreography’ of these protests and the...
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Category: Policing the Crisis, Abstracts
Montag 14. of Juni 2010
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By: Luis A. Fernandez and Christian Scholl: The geography of global governance and the spatial dimension of controlling dissent
This paper lays out the theoretical relevance of spatial dimensions in the control of dissent by drawing on recent innovations in social geography, political theory and philosophy.
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Category: Policing the Crisis, Abstracts
Montag 14. of Juni 2010
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By: Bernd Belina: 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 builds upon, “public space” is and has always been used to regulate the “where” of...
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Category: Policing the Crisis, Abstracts
Montag 14. of Juni 2010
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By: Jenny Künkel: Public-Private Security Provision in the Sex Industry
The paper asks how local prostitution regimes are reshaped in the process of urban neoliberalization. Based on a media analysis and interviews with Hamburg sex workers and regulatory stakeholders such as police, pimps,...
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Category: Policing the Crisis, Abstracts
Montag 14. of Juni 2010
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By: Kirstie Ball: Brandscapes of Control? The co-construction of subjects and spaces in late capitalism
This paper argues that amongst the many new forms of utopian project emerging in late capitalist society, there is a vision emerging from marketing, based on a combination of surveillance, ubiquitous computing and communication...
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