Handlungsempfehlungen für Städte mit ‚offenen Drogenszenen‘ und Ausgehvierteln

Suchttherapie ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (04) ◽  
pp. 167-168
Keyword(s):  
Urban Security

Im Herbst 2020 endete die Laufzeit des Projektkonsortiums „DRUSEC“ (Drugs and Urban Security), das im Rahmen des BMBF-Programms „Forschung für die zivile Sicherheit“ durchgeführt wurde. Beteiligt waren Projektpartner aus Frankfurt, Hamburg, Bremen und Freiburg sowie zwei französischen Städten.

scholarly journals The smart grid as a security device: Electricity infrastructure and urban governance in Kingston and Rio de Janeiro

Urban Studies ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 004209802098571
Author(s):  
Francesca Pilo’
Keyword(s):  
Smart Grid ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Smart Grids ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Urban Governance ◽  
Spatial Inequality ◽  
Technical Failure ◽  
Spatial Inequalities ◽  
Urban Security ◽  
Security Device

This article aims to contribute to recent debates on the politics of smart grids by exploring their installation in low-income areas in Kingston (Jamaica) and Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). To date, much of this debate has focused on forms of smart city experiments, mostly in the Global North, while less attention has been given to the implementation of smart grids in cities characterised by high levels of urban insecurity and socio-spatial inequality. This article illustrates how, in both contexts, the installation of smart metering is used as a security device that embeds the promise of protecting infrastructure and revenue and navigating complex relations framed along lines of socio-economic inequalities and urban sovereignty – here linked to configurations of state and non-state (criminal) territorial control and power. By unpacking the political workings of the smart grid within changing urban security contexts, including not only the rationalities that support its use but also the forms of resistance, contestation and socio-technical failure that emerge, the article argues for the importance of examining the conjunction between urban and infrastructural governance, including the reshaping of local power relations and spatial inequalities, through globally circulating devices.

Mitigating Conflict and Violence in African Cities

2012 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
pp. 968-981 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sean Fox ◽  
Jo Beall
Keyword(s):  
Political Institutions ◽  
Socioeconomic Development ◽  
Urban Governance ◽  
Urban Poverty ◽  
Social Unrest ◽  
Economic Stagnation ◽  
Urban Security ◽  
Urban Population Growth ◽  
Urban Planning And Management ◽  
Underlying Risk

The process of urbanisation has historically been associated with both socioeconomic development and social strain. Although there is little evidence that urbanisation per se increases the likelihood of conflict or violence in a country, in recent decades Africa has experienced exceptional rates of urban population growth in a context of economic stagnation and poor governance, producing conditions conducive to social unrest and violence. In order to improve urban security in the years ahead, the underlying risk factors must be addressed, including urban poverty, inequality, and fragile political institutions. This, in turn, requires improving urban governance in the region by strengthening the capacity of local government institutions, addressing the complex political dynamics that impede effective urban planning and management, and cultivating integrated development strategies that involve cooperation between various tiers and spheres of government and civil society.

scholarly journals The perception of the elderly about suffering related to frailty

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 215-222
Author(s):  
Daniel Rocha Silveira ◽  
Karla Cristina Giacomin ◽  
Rosângela Correa Dias ◽  
Josélia Oliveira Araújo Firmo
Keyword(s):  
Life Experiences ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Elderly Persons ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Analysis Model ◽  
Frailty Phenotype ◽  
Network Database ◽  
Data Collection And Analysis ◽  
Urban Security ◽  
Belo Horizonte

Abstract Objective: To understand how elderly persons perceive subjective aspects linked to current and other life experiences related to the process of becoming frail. Method: A qualitative study, anchored in interpretative anthropology, was performed. The elderly were selected from the FIBRA Network database from those classified as robust or pre-frail, according to the frailty phenotype of Fried et al., in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil in 2009. We interviewed 15 elderly people of different genders, ages, income, religion and functional status, in 2016. In data collection and analysis, the "signs, meanings and actions" analysis model was used, which allows the understanding of the elements that are significant for a population to read a given situation and to position themselves in relation to it. Results: From the analysis the following categories emerged: a) suffering throughout life and b) suffering and the resources to deal with them. Conclusion: The interviewees described sufferings of different aspects that constitute their life, from birth to aging, according to experiences related to pain, loss and learning. The perception of current frailty refers to their life history, marked by physical or mental suffering, whether insidious or temporary - as well as illnesses, how they manifest themselves today, and a lack of financial resources and urban security. The narratives bring us closer to the perception of frailty as being constitutive of human beings, who can easily break.

scholarly journals Urban Crime and Security

2021 ◽  
pp. 213-228
Author(s):  
Tao Cheng ◽  
Tongxin Chen
Keyword(s):  
Resource Allocation ◽  
Big Data ◽  
Crime Prevention ◽  
Urban Crime ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Big Data Technologies ◽  
Urban Security ◽  
Made In

AbstractScientists have an enduring interest in understanding urban crime and developing security strategies for mitigating this problem. This chapter reviews the progress made in this topic from historic criminology to data-driven policing. It first reviews the broad implications of urban security and its implementation in practice. Next, it focuses on the tools to prevent urban crime and improve security, from analytical crime hotspot mapping to police resource allocation. Finally, a manifesto of data-driven policing is proposed, with its practical demand for efficient security strategies and the development of big data technologies. It emphasizes that data-driven strategies could be applied in cities due to their promising effectiveness for crime prevention and security improvement.

scholarly journals Militarising Mumbai? The ‘Politics’ of Response.

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 477-498
Author(s):  
Rhys Machold
Keyword(s):  
Turning Point ◽  
Terrorist Attacks ◽  
The Political ◽  
Policy Response ◽  
Political Upheaval ◽  
Urban Security ◽  
Major Turning Point ◽  
Indian Cities

Abstract This article focuses on how urban security has been governed in Mumbai in the aftermath of the 2008 terrorist attacks (26/11). The event was widely cited as a major turning point in the securitisation and militarisation of Indian cities. It also produced significant political upheaval, which in turn generated calls for a major institutional overhaul of the governmental architecture for handling terrorism. This article takes the political and policy repercussions of 26/11 as an intervention into critical debates about the (para-)militarisation of policing and the politics of urban security. Here I shift the focus from the disciplinary and divisive effects of policies towards an emphasis on their spectacular and theatrical dimensions. If we are to make sense of the ‘militarised’ focus of the policy response to 26/11, I argue, we need to take seriously its populist, aspirational qualities.

Comparative European criminology and the question of urban security

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 257-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Edwards ◽  
Gordon Hughes
Keyword(s):  
Urban Security

scholarly journals Governance through pluralization: Jerusalem’s modular security provision

2018 ◽  
Vol 49 (6) ◽  
pp. 438-456 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lior Volinz
Keyword(s):  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Private Institutions ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Modular Assembly ◽  
Urban Security ◽  
The Military ◽  
East Jerusalem ◽  
Ad Hoc Security ◽  
At Will

Security responses increasingly involve the delegation of security roles from state actors, such as the police and the military, to a plurality of public and private institutions. This article focuses on the emergence of a modular governance logic in security provision, in which urban security is diffused into differing modules – security actors, performances, technologies and practices – which can be enlisted, deployed, instructed, entwined, detached and withdrawn at will. This article identifies three features of urban modular security provision: the heterogeneity of its public and private components, the development of reserved capacities, and the differential multifacetedness of its performances and practices. These are explored through the case study of East Jerusalem, in which a modular security provision emerged where previously undefined and ad-hoc security arrangements became cohesive, normalized and codified through practice and law. In tracing the flows of security authorities, personnel and knowledge produced within a modular security assemblage, this article proposes that the modular assembly of security actors complements policing institutions by providing other informal disciplinary, punitive and statecrafting powers, in a manner which obfuscates controversial state policies and unequally distributes rights and resources.

Order and Disorder

2021 ◽  
pp. 200-212
Author(s):  
David Dickson
Keyword(s):  
Capital City ◽  
Military Establishment ◽  
Order And Disorder ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Gradual Process ◽  
Food Shortages ◽  
Urban Security ◽  
Standing Army ◽  
Building Project ◽  
The Military

This chapter spotlights the role of the state (via the army) in enforcing urban security and in creating professional policing for the capital city. It begins by describing the greatest building project in Dublin, the Royal Barracks. The creation within a capital city of such a vast military establishment was a consequence of the agreement by the (all Protestant) Irish Parliament to house and maintain on Irish soil the bulk of the English standing army during peacetime. The chapter then turns to study the logic behind the increased concentration of the military in the cities. It argues that the permanent presence of military manpower, albeit in largely open residential barracks, helped make the case for continuing the gradual process of urban de-fortification. The chapter also looks into the three collective threats to urban order: faction fights, scarcity riots and artisan protests. It focuses more on the severe food shortages across Ulster and the food protests in 1729 in which civic authorities turned to the military for help. Finally, the chapter reviews the implications of industrial protest — a collective action by producers taken against their masters, other traders or workers, or even against consumers.

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