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Stadt, Kritik und Geographie -drei Begriffe und ihre Relevanz Städte sind neuerdings wichtig. Nic... more Stadt, Kritik und Geographie -drei Begriffe und ihre Relevanz Städte sind neuerdings wichtig. Nicht dass sie jemals unwichtig gewesen wären. Aber dass viele Prozesse und Phänomene, die den Gang der Welt und das Leben einzelner Menschen bestimmen, ganz wesentlich städtisch sind, wird in Wissenschaft, Öffentlichkeit und Politik erst seit einigen Jahren breit diskutiert. Dass, wie immer wieder betont wird, nunmehr über die Hälfte der Weltbevölkerung in Städten wohnt, ist lediglich ein quantitativer Hinweis. Entscheidend ist, dass scheinbar rein städtische Phänomene mit globalen in fundamentaler Weise zusammenhängen und dass letztere nicht ohne einen Fokus auf Städte zu verstehen sind (vgl. Davis 2011). Das macht die Qualität der Bedeutung der Stadt aus. Deshalb sind Städte wichtig.
The globalizing cities reader, 2018
Under the name of ‘Blockupy’ the city of Frankfurt am Main witnessed major social protests betwee... more Under the name of ‘Blockupy’ the city of Frankfurt am Main witnessed major social protests between 2012 and 2015 against the European crisis management and its devastating impacts on the livelihoods of people all over Europe. By assuming a Gramscian perspective, with a special focus on struggles over hegemony in the realm of coercion itself, this paper, analyzes the early Blockupy movement from 2012 to 2013, and argues that these protests were able to successfully challenge the neoliberal hegemonic story of EU austerity politics in Germany for two main reasons. First, Blockupy at that time was able to avoid criminalization by practicing a professionalized politics of hegemony that actively sought to intervene in public debates and by establishing a code of conduct shared by all participating groups. Second, Blockupy's geography and its place-based, multi-scalar and networked character were crucial, in that they drew on spatial strategies derived from the traditions and experiences of different social movements. Blockupy was multi-scalar and networked in that it brought together national, local and European movements by networking across scales, and it was placebased in two respects: it used and reignited the urban social movement infrastructure that was in place in Frankfurt after decades of social struggles within and against global city formation; and it strategically used Frankfurt's material and symbolic status as a global city.
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Geography …, 2010
Ze'ef Gedalof∗∗ Arnoud Lagendijk Pierpaolo Mudu ... ∗hbauder@ryerson.ca ∗∗ § ¶... more Ze'ef Gedalof∗∗ Arnoud Lagendijk Pierpaolo Mudu ... ∗hbauder@ryerson.ca ∗∗ § ¶ This paper is posted at Digital Commons @ Ryerson. http://digitalcommons.ryerson .ca/geography/1 ... Department of Geography, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, ...
Alltag im Grenzland, 2010
Die empirische Untersuchung der „Grenze als Ressource“ am östlichen Rand der EU setzt die Existen... more Die empirische Untersuchung der „Grenze als Ressource“ am östlichen Rand der EU setzt die Existenz und Wirkung territorialer Grenzen voraus, sowohl nationaler als auch die der EU. Indem sie diese Grenzen überqueren, können Kleinhändler bzw. Schmuggler sie als Einkommensquelle nutzen, was ihren Alltag weitgehend (mit-)strukturieren kann. In diesem Beitrag diskutieren wir aus (raum-)theoretischer Perspektive, aus welchen Formen der Raumproduktion diese
Großbritannien, 2010
In Großbritannien haben sich seit der Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts tief greifende gesellschaftliche... more In Großbritannien haben sich seit der Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts tief greifende gesellschaftliche Transformationsprozesse vollzogen, von denen hier beispielhaft drei Trends vorgestellt und analysiert werden sollen. Abschnitt 6.2 beschäftigt sich mit Zuwanderung und Multikulturalismus, Abschnitt 6.3 mit dem Thema Videoüberwachung in britischen Städten, und Abschnitt 6.4 nimmt sich der Transformationsprozesse in britischen Hafenstädten an. Im Mittelpunkt der Betrachtung des gesamten Kapitels stehen zwei miteinander verbundene Aspekte. Zum einen wird das Verhältnis zwischen sozialem Wandel und seinen räumlichen Kontexten ausgelotet, zum anderen die Frage, wer an diesem Wandel teilhaben und ihn mitgestalten kann — und wer nicht.
Political Geography, 2012
Urban Studies, 2003
Recent years have witnessed changes in the discourses and practices of urban policing towards 'qu... more Recent years have witnessed changes in the discourses and practices of urban policing towards 'quality-of-life offences' and the presence of unwanted groups (beggars, drugusers) in city centres. The authors argue that the change towards a more 'law-and-order' style of law enforcement, often referred to as Zero Tolerance Policing, has to be examined not solely as a means of crime prevention but also in the context of interurban competition. Thus, it constitutes a moment of the urban political economy, often referred to as urban entrepreneurialism: especially for old industrial cities, safe and clean city centres are regarded as a necessary asset for competition and image promotion. These arguments are developed by discussion of two empirical studies: Glasgow, Scotland, and Essen, in the Ruhr region in Germany.
Antipode, 2002
After 9/11, there was a general feeling that "from this day on, nothing will remain the same". Ge... more After 9/11, there was a general feeling that "from this day on, nothing will remain the same". Geopolitical projects, cultural life, and political constellations in North America and Europe seemed to have come to a confused halt, and there seemed a distinct need for reorientation. In this intervention, we would like to argue that the attacks of 9/11 actually resulted, not in a reversal, but in an acceleration of trends that had prevailed during the previous couple of years-what we will refer to as "more of the same". Although we believe that this holds true most importantly for the US, today's self-declared world-sheriff, we will focus on one of its deputies in the attempt to police the planet: Germany. We shall concentrate on the geographies of xenophobia, militarism and law and order and will conclude by discussing the possibility of a "left" and "geographical" position on the attacks. We assume this is especially important, as the first reactions of official German geography were neither. These included a statement on the homepage of the Geographentag (the biannual congress of German-speaking
Antipode, 2013
In 2009, the central building of the new IG Farben Campus of Johann Wolfgang Goethe University (J... more In 2009, the central building of the new IG Farben Campus of Johann Wolfgang Goethe University (JWGU), Frankfurt, Germany was occupied by students protesting against the neoliberalisation of higher education. While similar occupations at the old Bockenheim Campus were usually tolerated, if not welcomed, by the university management, this time 176 students and members of staff were forcefully evicted after only 3 days, when the university's presidential board called in the police. To better understand this way of ending such protest, a level of oppression almost unheard of at a German university in the last 20 years, we reconstruct the way in which JWGU, as part of the state apparatus university, has produced the two campuses as particular places that are bound up in and expressions of the national and local condensations of forces of Fordism and neoliberalism respectively.
Stadt, Kritik und Geographie -drei Begriffe und ihre Relevanz Städte sind neuerdings wichtig. Nic... more Stadt, Kritik und Geographie -drei Begriffe und ihre Relevanz Städte sind neuerdings wichtig. Nicht dass sie jemals unwichtig gewesen wären. Aber dass viele Prozesse und Phänomene, die den Gang der Welt und das Leben einzelner Menschen bestimmen, ganz wesentlich städtisch sind, wird in Wissenschaft, Öffentlichkeit und Politik erst seit einigen Jahren breit diskutiert. Dass, wie immer wieder betont wird, nunmehr über die Hälfte der Weltbevölkerung in Städten wohnt, ist lediglich ein quantitativer Hinweis. Entscheidend ist, dass scheinbar rein städtische Phänomene mit globalen in fundamentaler Weise zusammenhängen und dass letztere nicht ohne einen Fokus auf Städte zu verstehen sind (vgl. Davis 2011). Das macht die Qualität der Bedeutung der Stadt aus. Deshalb sind Städte wichtig.
The globalizing cities reader, 2018
Under the name of ‘Blockupy’ the city of Frankfurt am Main witnessed major social protests betwee... more Under the name of ‘Blockupy’ the city of Frankfurt am Main witnessed major social protests between 2012 and 2015 against the European crisis management and its devastating impacts on the livelihoods of people all over Europe. By assuming a Gramscian perspective, with a special focus on struggles over hegemony in the realm of coercion itself, this paper, analyzes the early Blockupy movement from 2012 to 2013, and argues that these protests were able to successfully challenge the neoliberal hegemonic story of EU austerity politics in Germany for two main reasons. First, Blockupy at that time was able to avoid criminalization by practicing a professionalized politics of hegemony that actively sought to intervene in public debates and by establishing a code of conduct shared by all participating groups. Second, Blockupy's geography and its place-based, multi-scalar and networked character were crucial, in that they drew on spatial strategies derived from the traditions and experiences of different social movements. Blockupy was multi-scalar and networked in that it brought together national, local and European movements by networking across scales, and it was placebased in two respects: it used and reignited the urban social movement infrastructure that was in place in Frankfurt after decades of social struggles within and against global city formation; and it strategically used Frankfurt's material and symbolic status as a global city.
Download-Link (valid until 08.09.2016): http://authors.elsevier.com/a/1TPWA3Qu6uG3IN
Geography …, 2010
Ze'ef Gedalof∗∗ Arnoud Lagendijk Pierpaolo Mudu ... ∗hbauder@ryerson.ca ∗∗ § ¶... more Ze'ef Gedalof∗∗ Arnoud Lagendijk Pierpaolo Mudu ... ∗hbauder@ryerson.ca ∗∗ § ¶ This paper is posted at Digital Commons @ Ryerson. http://digitalcommons.ryerson .ca/geography/1 ... Department of Geography, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, ...
Alltag im Grenzland, 2010
Die empirische Untersuchung der „Grenze als Ressource“ am östlichen Rand der EU setzt die Existen... more Die empirische Untersuchung der „Grenze als Ressource“ am östlichen Rand der EU setzt die Existenz und Wirkung territorialer Grenzen voraus, sowohl nationaler als auch die der EU. Indem sie diese Grenzen überqueren, können Kleinhändler bzw. Schmuggler sie als Einkommensquelle nutzen, was ihren Alltag weitgehend (mit-)strukturieren kann. In diesem Beitrag diskutieren wir aus (raum-)theoretischer Perspektive, aus welchen Formen der Raumproduktion diese
Großbritannien, 2010
In Großbritannien haben sich seit der Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts tief greifende gesellschaftliche... more In Großbritannien haben sich seit der Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts tief greifende gesellschaftliche Transformationsprozesse vollzogen, von denen hier beispielhaft drei Trends vorgestellt und analysiert werden sollen. Abschnitt 6.2 beschäftigt sich mit Zuwanderung und Multikulturalismus, Abschnitt 6.3 mit dem Thema Videoüberwachung in britischen Städten, und Abschnitt 6.4 nimmt sich der Transformationsprozesse in britischen Hafenstädten an. Im Mittelpunkt der Betrachtung des gesamten Kapitels stehen zwei miteinander verbundene Aspekte. Zum einen wird das Verhältnis zwischen sozialem Wandel und seinen räumlichen Kontexten ausgelotet, zum anderen die Frage, wer an diesem Wandel teilhaben und ihn mitgestalten kann — und wer nicht.
Political Geography, 2012
Urban Studies, 2003
Recent years have witnessed changes in the discourses and practices of urban policing towards 'qu... more Recent years have witnessed changes in the discourses and practices of urban policing towards 'quality-of-life offences' and the presence of unwanted groups (beggars, drugusers) in city centres. The authors argue that the change towards a more 'law-and-order' style of law enforcement, often referred to as Zero Tolerance Policing, has to be examined not solely as a means of crime prevention but also in the context of interurban competition. Thus, it constitutes a moment of the urban political economy, often referred to as urban entrepreneurialism: especially for old industrial cities, safe and clean city centres are regarded as a necessary asset for competition and image promotion. These arguments are developed by discussion of two empirical studies: Glasgow, Scotland, and Essen, in the Ruhr region in Germany.
Antipode, 2002
After 9/11, there was a general feeling that "from this day on, nothing will remain the same". Ge... more After 9/11, there was a general feeling that "from this day on, nothing will remain the same". Geopolitical projects, cultural life, and political constellations in North America and Europe seemed to have come to a confused halt, and there seemed a distinct need for reorientation. In this intervention, we would like to argue that the attacks of 9/11 actually resulted, not in a reversal, but in an acceleration of trends that had prevailed during the previous couple of years-what we will refer to as "more of the same". Although we believe that this holds true most importantly for the US, today's self-declared world-sheriff, we will focus on one of its deputies in the attempt to police the planet: Germany. We shall concentrate on the geographies of xenophobia, militarism and law and order and will conclude by discussing the possibility of a "left" and "geographical" position on the attacks. We assume this is especially important, as the first reactions of official German geography were neither. These included a statement on the homepage of the Geographentag (the biannual congress of German-speaking
Antipode, 2013
In 2009, the central building of the new IG Farben Campus of Johann Wolfgang Goethe University (J... more In 2009, the central building of the new IG Farben Campus of Johann Wolfgang Goethe University (JWGU), Frankfurt, Germany was occupied by students protesting against the neoliberalisation of higher education. While similar occupations at the old Bockenheim Campus were usually tolerated, if not welcomed, by the university management, this time 176 students and members of staff were forcefully evicted after only 3 days, when the university's presidential board called in the police. To better understand this way of ending such protest, a level of oppression almost unheard of at a German university in the last 20 years, we reconstruct the way in which JWGU, as part of the state apparatus university, has produced the two campuses as particular places that are bound up in and expressions of the national and local condensations of forces of Fordism and neoliberalism respectively.