Crowds and Power.

Turner, Ralph H.; Canetti, Elias; Stewart, Carol

doi:10.2307/2065646

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“…In short, with how crowds are problematised , and how that varies over time. Historically, the crowd has been seen, especially by the political Right, as a threat to the social and political order, an embodiment of larger social dangers (see also McClelland, 1989; and for a more affirmative story of the crowd, see Canetti [1961] Crowds and Power ). The pandemic is a new problematisation of the crowd, or, more accurately, a multiple and changing set of problematisations, some more dominant than others.…”

Section: Pandemic Geographiesmentioning

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Post‐pandemic cities: An urban lexicon of accelerations/decelerations

Marvin

McFarlane

Guma

et al. 2023

Trans Inst British Geog

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COVID‐19 has stimulated renewed societal and academic debate about the future of cities and urban life. Future visons have veered from the ‘death of the city’ to visual renderings and limited experiments with novel 15 minute neighbourhoods. Within this context, we as a diverse group of urban scholars sought to examine the emergent ‘post’‐COVID city through the production of an urban lexicon that investigates its socio‐material contours. The urban lexicon makes three contributions. First, to explore how the pandemic has accelerated certain processes and agendas, while at the same time, other processes, priorities and sites have been decelerated and put on hold. Second, to utilise this framing to examine the impacts of the pandemic on how cities are governed, how urban geographies are managed and lived, and how care emerged as a vital urban resource. Third, to tease out what might be temporary intensifications and what may become configurational in urban governance, platforming, density, technosolutionism, dwelling, crowds, respatialisation, reconcentration, care, improvisation and atmosphere. The urban lexicon proposes a vocabulary for describing and understanding some of the key contours of the emergent post‐pandemic city.

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Section: Pandemic Geographiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Post‐pandemic cities: An urban lexicon of accelerations/decelerations

Marvin

McFarlane

Guma

et al. 2023

Trans Inst British Geog

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“…In Crowds and Power, Elias Canetti notes, “There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown (…) All the distances which men create around themselves are dictated by this fear” yet, quite counterintuitively, “it is only in a crowd that man can become free of this fear of being touched. This is the only situation in which the fear changes into its opposite” ([32], p. 6).…”

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Biometric privacy protection: What is this thing called privacy?

Mordini¹

2023

IET Biometrics

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We are at the wake of an epochal revolution, the Information Revolution. The Information Revolution has been accompanied by the rise of a new commodity, digital data, which is changing the world including methods for human recognition. Biometric systems are the recognition technology of the new age. So, privacy scholars tend to frame biometric privacy protection chiefly in terms of biometric data protection. The author argues that this is a misleading perspective. Biometric data protection is an extremely relevant legal and commercial issue but has little to do with privacy. The notion of privacy, understood as a personal intimate sphere, is hardly related to what is contained in this private realm (data or whatever else), rather it is related to the very existence of a secluded space. Privacy relies on having the possibility to hide rather than in hiding anything. What really matters is the existence of a private sphere rather than what is inside. This also holds true for biometric privacy. Biometric privacy protection should focus on bodily and psychological integrity, preventing those technology conditions and operating practices that may lead to turn biometric recognition into a humiliating experience for the individual.

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“…These ruptures operate on a level that is more somatic and emotional than classically political. What is productive about this, “stepping out of everything which binds, encloses, and burdens” (Canetti 1973:324), is that emotion is part of the power of protest. Lived experiences and shared emotions can have transformative effects, creating the affinities needed for mutual aid and collective direct action (Bjork‐James 2020:118).…”

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Shutting Down the Machines of Destruction: Possibilities for Agrarian Life on the Protest Blockade

Gilbert

2022

Antipode

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The protest blockade is one tool for seeking liberation from the state while living within it. I offer a critical analysis of the protest blockade in agrarian struggles for land and life in Indonesia and beyond. I specify my discussion with a retelling of a Sumatran land‐back movement of smallholders and landless workers who twice turned to the blockade to reclaim their land from a plantation company. I consider how these blockades and others in Sumatra and Borneo created direct‐action power, thereby expanding people's possibilities for livelihood and autonomy in landscapes of extraction and exploitation. Blockading action is a process that unfolds from within as activists challenge the legitimacy of their rulers and set out to create more emancipatory spaces and territories. When protestors blockade the bulldozers, logging trucks, and other machines of capitalist exploitation of workers and ecologies, they seek to disrupt the infrastructures and commodity flows of the dominant political‐economic order as well as open up new agrarian possibilities. These protest blockades are central to the anarchist, Indigenous, and decolonial politics that motivate direct‐action protests across the globe.

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Crowds and Power.

Cited by 8 publications

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Post‐pandemic cities: An urban lexicon of accelerations/decelerations

Post‐pandemic cities: An urban lexicon of accelerations/decelerations

Biometric privacy protection: What is this thing called privacy?

Shutting Down the Machines of Destruction: Possibilities for Agrarian Life on the Protest Blockade

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