All posts by Alke Jenss

Logistics as violence

Alke Jenss | February 27, 2020

Global infrastructures of trade have a massive impact on people’s lives. No one made me more aware of this – and of the deadly effects they have had – than Deborah Cowen’s book The Deadly Life of Logistics.

My article ‘Global Flows and Everyday Violence in Urban Space’ [...]

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Austerity Urbanism Goes South, Authoritarian Neoliberalism Goes Urban

Alke Jenss | October 18, 2018

How do competitiveness, austerity and insecurity combine in urban contexts? How are the local state’s (in)security policies shaped in conditions of fiscal restraints and competitive-cities programmes? My article in a recent Globalizations special issue deals with this set of questions. One [...]

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