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Samstag 04. of August 2007

We are getting there ....eventually: Manuscript will be shipped to the publisher later next week

Eric Töpfer: Hacking away

It took us a long time, but we will send the manuscript to the publisher next week and keep you informed by email. Just look at the pics!


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Category: Presentations, Abstracts & Papers

Freitag 03. of August 2007

Nik Theodore and Ryan Hollon on non-state forms of policing in Chicago

Greater surveillance and private security might wind up eroding civil liberties and leave some neighborhoods more at risk than ever.

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 Reader)


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Category: welfare & workfare, Surveillance, Security Security

Donnerstag 26. of Juli 2007

Paul Tepper: Welfare Checks Can’t Cover Rent for Downtown’s Homeless

Skid Row Los Angeles (copyright Happy Mac)

Our friend Paul Tepper just published an op-ed in the Los Angeles Business Journal about welfare, housing and homelessness. While many Europeans assume there simply is not welfare state left in the US, there is indeed very...


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Category: welfare & workfare, Control

Freitag 27. of April 2007

Jacqueline Leavitt: Jobs and Public Housing - Old Programs and New Paradigms

Aliso Village March, Los Angeles, CA. (Copyright Jaiso)

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 housing policy [1]. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) signed the U.S....


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Category: Abstracts & Papers, Presentations, welfare & workfare

Mittwoch 25. of April 2007

Nik Theodore: Beyond the New Paternalism

Demolition in Chicago (Copyright: ChicagoEye)

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 in a transnational perspective. Other contribution in both German and English...


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Category: Abstracts & Papers, Presentations, Control