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> From: Volinz, Lior <[log in to unmask]>
> To: Nils Zurawski <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: AAG 2017: CFP 'The State and the Urban: a Security Affair'
> Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2017 14:46:01 +0200
>
> Dear Nils,
>
> Was great meeting you last week at the conference in Amsterdam - I 
> hope you found it both enjoyable and productive. I'm sending you our 
> CFP for a panel I'm co-organising at the upcoming AAG in New Orleans. 
> I will be glad if you could share it to the EASA security network, and 
> to anyone else you think might be interested in the nexus between 
> security, state-crafting and the urban.
>
> all the best,
> Lior
>
> -----
>
> Dear all,
>
> We are pleased to invite contributions to our panel on "The State and 
> the Urban: a Security Affair" at the Annual Meeting of the American 
> Association of Geographers (AAG), New Orleans, Louisiana, April 10-14, 
> 2018.
>
> Deadline: October 13^th .
>
> A growing scholarly discussion turns our attention to the role of 
> security practices, materialities and knowledge in crafting the state, 
> a process which takes place in both colonial and Western settings 
> (Hansen 2006, Goldstein 2012, Graham 2011). In this panel we would 
> like to turn this discussion toward the urban: to explore the 
> relations between the city, security provision and the state. While 
> cityscapes inform and define the relations between (in)security 
> provision and the production, or performance, of the state, so do 
> these relations (re)configure both public and private urban space.
>
> The state, both in its ideas and its systems (Abrams 1988), has often 
> approached as the source of sovereignty and authority. Through the 
> bureaucratic, more or less corrupt, at times violent encounters 
> between citizens who are positioned in an uneven geography of power, 
> sovereignty and authority are often reproduced in practice and through 
> discourses, suggesting specific ideas of state and state-ness (Gupta 
> 2012; Trouillot 2001). Security encounters and the work of security 
> providers, both public and private, such as police, army, 
> neighbourhood watches, vigilante groups, private security companies, 
> and mercenaries offers a privileged entry point to understand the 
> dynamics through which the state and its apparatus is crafted in 
> everyday interactions in cities.
>
> Security encounters and the political work of state crafting they do 
> does not happen in a geographical vacuum. Urban areas are the cradles 
> where all these actors meet and interact with each other and with the 
> city dwellers. Cities need to be understood as those processes and 
> spaces that allow for and make state crafting possible (Isin, 2007); 
> It is often through and in the city that security practices, 
> knowledge, materialities, and encounters inform and produce the 
> contours of the state.
>
> Looking at state crafting and the blurring of the boundary between 
> state and city through a multiplicity of security practices raises 
> questions about urban planning, urban design, and the role of urban 
> infrastructure. While the latter could be the technology providing 
> security, they also need to be secured, entering complex relations 
> with the residents of cities. Recently ever more urban areas are being 
> securitized and militarized, becoming the playground and the stage for 
> state endeavours, keeping the meaning of citizenship (in cities and 
> beyond) on an ever-shifting plane. Substantive citizenship, based upon 
> the distribution of rights, resources and privileges, is both claimed 
> and denied through and within urban space. The city becomes both an 
> arena and a producer of security challenges and citizenship claims, 
> where terrorism,criminality, social struggles, migration and 
> informality reshape our cities and (re)configure the relations between 
> citizens and the state. We therefore welcome empirically based papers 
> that discuss security practices in urban areas and their relation to 
> the state, to issues of securitization, militarization, 
> policing,infrastructure and security architecture.
>
> Please submit abstracts of max. 250 words to both conveners at 
> [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>and [log in to unmask] 
> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>by the dead-line, October 13^th . We aim to 
> answer all submissions in the week following.
>
> Organized by: Lior Volinz 
> <http://www.uva.nl/en/profile/v/o/l.volinz/l.volinz.html?search=lior+volinz&origin=XPp9OJ9KReucxCtM%2FFAngA>(University 
> of Amsterdam) and Francesco Colona 
> <http://www.uva.nl/en/profile/c/o/f.colona/f.colona.html?search=francesco+colona&origin=XPp9OJ9KReucxCtM%2FFAngA>(University 
> of Amsterdam)
>
> We are looking forward to your contributions!
>
> Lior and Francesco
>
> References
>
> Abrams, P. (1988). Notes on the Difficulty of Studying the State. 
> /Journal of historical sociology/, /1/(1), 58-89.
>
> Goldstein, D. M. (2012). /Outlawed: between security and rights in a 
> Bolivian city/. Duke University Press.
>
> Graham, S. (2011). /Cities under siege: The new military urbanism/. 
> Verso Books.
>
> Gupta, A. (2012). /Red tape: Bureaucracy, structural violence, and 
> poverty in India/. Duke University Press.
>
> Hansen, T. B. (2006). Performers of sovereignty: on the privatization 
> of security in urban South Africa. /Critique of anthropology/, 
> /26/(3), 279-295.
>
> Isin, E. F. (2007). City. state: critique of scalar thought. 
> /Citizenship Studies/, /11/(2), 211-228.
>
> Trouillot, M. (2001). The anthropology of the state in the age of 
> globalization 1: Close encounters of the deceptive kind. /Current 
> anthropology/, /42/(1), 125-138.
>
> -- 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> *Lior Volinz*
>
> PhD Candidate
> Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR) /
> Centre for Urban Studies
> University of Amsterdam
> Nieuwe Achtergracht 166
> 1018 WV Amsterdam, The Netherlands


Dr. habil. Nils Zurawski
Universität Hamburg
Inst. für kriminologische Sozialforschung
Allende-Platz 1
20146 Hamburg
Germany
tel. +49 (0) 40 42838 2199 (AB)
fax. +49 (0) 40 42838 2328
http://www.surveillance-studies.org

Neue Bücher:
*Achtung Sicherheitskontrollen! Flughäfen, Kultur, Un/Sicherheiten. 
Gerrit Herlyn, Nils Zurawski (Hg.). LIT, 2016.

*Raum-Kontrolle-Weltbild.Raumvorstellungen als Grundlage 
gesellschaftlicher Ordnung und ihrer Überwachung. 2014 Budrich 
UniPress.

*Anthropology of Security, Perspectives from the Frontline of Policing, 
Counter-terrorism and Border Control (eds. M. Maguire, C. Frois, 
N.Zurawski) Pluto Press 2014

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