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Urban Design as Technology of (Counter‐) Democratic Security Politics
Author(s) -
Hagmann Jonas,
Kostenwein David
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
swiss political science review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.632
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1662-6370
pISSN - 1424-7755
DOI - 10.1111/spsr.12434
Subject(s) - reflexivity , politics , architecture , sociology , democracy , inclusion–exclusion principle , ambivalence , inclusion (mineral) , political science , political economy , social science , law , geography , psychology , social psychology , archaeology
How does architecture operate as a security technology? This contribution sets out how reflexive security research and urban studies approach built environments as political inclusion and exclusion instruments. It first presents how this role is understood to operate in the respective scholarly fields, and then illustrates its ambivalent operation with two mini‐case studies centering on Bogotá and Zürich. In doing so, the contribution seeks to familiarize readers with architecture‐oriented reflexive political analysis, and to draw out main lines of further investigation.