SOS : Sauberkeit Ordnung Sicherheit in der Stadt / Nikola Langreiter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Langreiter, Nikola, author.

Language:

German

Subjects (All):

Municipal services.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 pages)

Other Title:

SOS

Place of Publication:

Innsbruck : Innsbruck university press, 2010.

Summary:

The sixth volume of "bricolage. Innsbruck Journal of European Ethnology" is dedicated to the explosive urban policy issue of cleanliness - order - security, terms that in German merge into the acronym "SOS" (Sauberkeit, Ordnung, Sicherheit). Security in public spaces has become a central agenda of current urban policy and urban planning. Municipalities are increasingly implementing measures oriented toward the guiding principle of the "clean and orderly city". The current discourses and developments require observation and reflection; the relevant debates demand critical cultural studies involvement. The idea and initiative to dedicate this issue of "bricolage" to a critical examination of historically and currently propagated and accepted notions of cleanliness, order, and safety in the city, and of the political concepts and measures currently relying on them, came from Johanna Rolshoven. In the context of a course in Innsbruck in the summer term of 2009, she motivated the students to think and write about this field of her urban research. The sixth volume of "bricolage. Innsbruck Journal of European Ethnology" is dedicated to the explosive urban policy issue of cleanliness - order - security, terms that in German merge into the acronym "SOS" (Sauberkeit, Ordnung, Sicherheit). Security in public spaces has become a central agenda of current urban policy and urban planning. Municipalities are increasingly implementing measures oriented toward the guiding principle of the "clean and orderly city". The current discourses and developments require observation and reflection; the relevant debates demand critical cultural studies involvement. The idea and initiative to dedicate this issue of "bricolage" to a critical examination of historically and currently propagated and accepted notions of cleanliness, order, and safety in the city, and of the political concepts and measures currently relying on them, came from Johanna Rolshoven. In the context of a course in Innsbruck in the summer term of 2009, she motivated the students to think and write about this field of her urban research.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Innsbruck university press, viewed May 13, 2023).