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Crime, Bodies and Space - Towards an Ethical Approach to Urban Policies in the Information Age (Hardcover)
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Crime, Bodies and Space - Towards an Ethical Approach to Urban Policies in the Information Age (Hardcover)
Series: Space, Materiality and the Normative
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With cities increasingly following rigid rules for designing out
crime and producing spaces under surveillance, this book asks how
information shapes bodies, space, and, ultimately, policymaking. In
recent years, public spaces have changed in Western countries, with
the urban realm becoming an ever-more monitored, privatised,
homogeneous, and aseptic space that has lost its character,
uniqueness, and diversity in the name of 'security'. This underpins
precise moral and political choices in terms of what a space should
be, how it can be used, and by whom. These choices generate
material consequences concerning urban inequality and freedom, or
otherwise, of movement. Based on ethnographic and autoethnographic
explorations in London's 'criminal' spaces, this book illustrates
how rules, policies, and moral values, far from being abstract
concepts, are in fact material. Outlining the basis of a new urban
information ethics, the book both exposes and challenges how moral
values and predefined categories are applied to, and materially
shape, the movement of bodies in urban space with regard to crime
and security policies. Drawing on Gilbert Simondon's information
theory and a wide range of work in urban studies, geography, and
planning, as well as in surveillance studies, object-oriented
ontology, and contemporary theoretical work on both materiality and
affect, the book provides a radically new perspective on urban
space in general, and crime and security in particular. This book
uses a balanced mix of theoretical concepts and empirical study to
bring theory and practice together in an intertwining of
ethnography and autoethnography. This book will be of interest to
students and scholars in the fields of urban studies, urban
geography, sociology, surveillance studies, legal theory,
socio-legal studies, planning law, environmental law, and land law.
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