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

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New articles and abstracts

Saturday 20. of October 2007

: Eick, Sambale, Toepfer Kontrollierte Urbanität Zur Neoliberalisierung städtischer Sicherheitspolitik

Titel: Kontrollierte Urbanität. Zur Neoliberalisierung städtischer Sicherheitspolitik, Herausgeber: Volker Eick, Jens Sambale, Eric Töpfer, Seiten: 402 Pages, Verlag:Transcript, Urban Studies, Preis: 21 €, ISBN: 3-89942-676-2


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Category: Control

Saturday 20. of October 2007

By: Neil Smith, Jens Sambale, Volker Eick: Neil Smith: Gentrification in Berlin and the Revanchist State

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Neil Smith, author of the seminal book "The urban frontier" (1996) and countless articles on gentrification, spatial scales, globalization and state revanchism, came to Berlin in May and agreed to answer a few of our questions...


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Category: welfare & workfare, Repression, Control

Sunday 16. of September 2007

By: Volker Eick: World Cup 2010: Privatizing Security in South Africa (G4S)

In April 2007 a global fact finding team from different unions went to South Africa, Malawi and Mozambique to find out about the employment practices of the global player "Group 4 Securicor (G4S)". The team interviewed G4S...


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Category: Security, welfare & workfare Security

Tuesday 11. of September 2007

: American Political Science Association: Drop the § 129a charges

The urban section of the American Political Science Association (worldwide membership: over 15.000) passed a resolution to condemn the charges against Andrej and the others. After passing the resolution the urban section was...


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Category: Repression

Sunday 09. of September 2007

By: Andrej Holm: Andrej Holm: Hartz IV und die Konturen einer neoliberalen Wohnungspolitik (2005)

What follows is an analysis by Andrej Holm on the emerging of a neoliberal housing regime in Germany - part and parcel of the new workfare regime. Andrej wrote it as a contribution to one of our working papers. It has not been...


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Category: Surveillance, Security, Abstracts & Papers, welfare & workfare Security