Abstract In this symposium, we explore how urban citizenship is about expressing, if not producing, difference, and fragmentation of claims affects right to the city movements with their universal, all‐inclusive ideals. Investigating social movements, political participation conflicting diversities in public space Tel Aviv Berlin, see a trend towards diversification interests, weakening even competition over rights resources rather than development mutual support solidarities among various...

This collection of papers offers a critical look at the social work that infrastructure does. We argue small-scale interactions with are, literally, foundations larger scale ...

The emergence of ‘situational awareness’ as a response to the perception new terrorism in European cities marks significant shift conceptualization security. Focusing on recently introduced German Federal Police programme that trains ordinary officers their capability handle ‘complex life-threatening situations police operation’, article explores how situational awareness introduces warrior logic into policing and urban subjectivity modifies our understanding security at large. It points us...

Abstract Postcolonializing Berlin is an experiment in rethinking (Western) cities from the South. It embraces conceptual innovations thinkers African, Latin American and Asian urban studies to complicate stories we tell about contemporary Berlin. My argument proceeds four steps. I begin by asking what makes North–South division so problematic, needs happen shake up those categories. Then share some of my own trials errors looking at Berlin‐Neukölln through lens ‘the South', before offering...

Der Aufsatz erforscht die Proteste gegen Corona-Maßnahmen in deutschen Städten als spezifische Form der affektiven Raumnahme und narrativen Verflechtung. Durch mehrmonatige Feldforschung auf den Kundgebungen Hamburg Großdemonstrationen Berlin sowie Interviews mit Beteiligten wird das rechten, spirituellen QAnon-Milieus anschlussfähige Narrativ des „Erwachens“ herausgearbeitet, eine unpolitische Subjektivität nahelegt, sich Kontrastfolie zu antirassistischen klimabewegten Kämpfen zeigt.

This paper depicts imagination in the horizon of posthumous condition as a number “affective workouts” – emotionally demanding exercises reaching out and relating that require routines, training, staging fearless will to connect. The conceptual inspiration comes from Günther Anders’ postwar writings on our blindness face apocalyptic threat nuclear bomb his propositions moral stretching train imagination. By bringing some ideas atomic age current ecological crisis, this allows end times speak...

This article focuses on the new plurality of social and spatial categorizing in everyday policing watching urban South Africa. It is argued that pluralization control produces forms sorting are neither reducible to after-pains racial apartheid nor an often-claimed economic segregation. By investigating different, not only state-driven, modes observing public space, mapping hotspots, controlling bars, or identifying “intruders,” it shown “the will-to-see” goes hand-in-hand with a tendency...

This paper is an inquiry into the uses of space and emotions in governance urban dangers. Cities have always been affective assemblages, yet role both affect control crime has dramatically changed over century. What defines spatial management today, Africa elsewhere, are not prohibitive, moralising or forcefully exclusionary techniques past; instead, powers seduction atmosphere gained pride place given rise to a regime through flirty surfaces. Crime, according security strategists city...

The article develops the notion of affective verticality as a way interrogating particular dynamics in arrangements right-wing times. gesture elevation is key; it gives rise to powerful claim territory through presence, but also grandeur and distinction. Concretely, paper discusses controversies surrounding two monuments recently installed East Germany. In one case three buses were set up vertically front Dresden's Church our Lady; other, 24 concrete slabs imitating Berlin Holocaust Memorial...

The article suggests an “infrastructural” approach to mutuality in the city. What organises is less a matter of common urban horizon or grown community than “enabling conditions” (Calhoun) we would call infrastructures: their makeup shapes how urbanites live together, share, partake, cooperate make deals. Concretely, looks at three infrastructural experiments Durban, South Africa, recent years, all intervening into crisis insecurity: first, Priority Zone downtown Durban with its passion for...

Abstract How can the lens of ‘urban impasse’ help us make sense relationship between inequality, institutions and contemporary urban life? And how studies benefit from feminist affect theory to explore theoretical potential impasse’? An impasse is a dead end; it connotes an experience being stuck, lacking orientation or future. Still, also bears transformative as powerful way halting denouncing that which does not work heading in wrong direction—as was powerfully brought stage cities around...

Abstract How can Günther Anders’ concern with the threat of atomic bomb enlighten current social thought about Anthropocene? Building on frustration “apocalypse blindness”, “laziness” and “indifference” his contemporaries plea for an “apocalyptic passion,” this text sketches contours a thinking in ‘our’ end times – time marked by destruction irretrievable loss habitability planet. It first translates notion into debates Anthropocene, then formulates three perspectives such search...

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