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Conference Announcement: Urban Security Work Spaces Policing the Crisis - Policing in Crisis Read

Join us in Berlin for this international conference.

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Below you can find abstracts and information on our speakers.

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New articles and abstracts

Friday 27. of June 2008

By: Jens Sambale: Kissing the Holocene Good-Bye: Mike Davis on the advent of the Anthropocene

This is not for the faint of heart. We are leaving the Holocene and it aint no fun either . Entering the Anthropocene (external link, reformated for readability).


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Category: Control

Sunday 22. of June 2008

By: George Rigakos, Volker Eick, Jens Sambale: George Rigakos: Nightclub. Bouncers, Risk, and the Spectacle of Consumption

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Bouncers: Regulating Al Capone's Grandchildren? A Marxist entering Canada's nightlife economy. Interview with George S. Rigakos, author of ›Nightclub. Bouncers, Risk, and the Spectacle of Consumption‹ (McGill-Queen’s...


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Category: Security, Control

Friday 23. of May 2008

By: Jens Sambale: Revanchism: The Sheriff of Nottingham reloaded

Alice Maher - Les Filles d'Ouranos @ University Park, Nottingham

Beware of snitches in your research department - especially if you do not share our fair complexion. We just received the following email and it seems the British state and its fine citizens are catching up on revanchism. With...


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Category: Repression

Sunday 17. of February 2008

By: Jens Sambale: Kontrollierte Urbanität: On Air

We received the pleasure to be noticed by a radio station - and not a minor one. Enjoy ten minutes of audio following the link below.


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Category: welfare & workfare, Repression, Control

Sunday 13. of January 2008

: Eric Töpfer, Volker Eick, Jens Sambale: Business Improvement Districts New Instrument for Containment and Exclusion Lessons from North America and Britain.

Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) are territorial subdivisions of a city in which property owners or businesses decide to self-impose an additional tax meant for the promotion and development of the area through services such...


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Category: Abstracts & Papers, Security, Control, Repression Security