BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Talks.cam//talks.cam.ac.uk// X-WR-CALNAME:Talks.cam BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Security Measures or Consolidating Insecurity Transnationally?Yout h Surveillance and Protest in the Global City - Dr Jo Anne Dillabough\, Re ader\, University of Cambridge DTSTART:20150430T153000Z DTEND:20150430T170000Z UID:TALK59228@talks.cam.ac.uk CONTACT:Ann Waterman DESCRIPTION:Recent research indicates that disadvantaged youth living in u rban social housing are currently experiencing heightened forms of surveil lance\, such as police targeting\, which are related to the rise of conser vative legal reforms in many countries worldwide. Such reforms carry subst antial negative weight in the wider public imagination as collective feeli ngs of insecurity about marginalized urban youth are increasing cross-nati onally (United Nations Development Program Report\, 2012). Related researc h also suggests that rising public insecurity about urban youth is implica ted in the creation of significant urban social divisions grounded in colo nial notions of territoriality\, even though such divisions exist in highl y localized forms of urban fragmentation and economic and racial dispariti es. While the transnational nature of youth surveillance is often perceive d as a given\, very little comparative research has investigated the natur e and consequences of these strains and the potentially unpredictable outc omes they may produce. In this talk I address this gap by investigating - against the background of global austerity\, the rise of transnational cro ss border surveillance\, and rising youth xenophobia - the underlying stra ins of ‘transnationalization’ as they relate to the policing of young people across time and two different urban spaces (London\, Tottenham\, UK : Cape town\, South Africa). The discussion is organized in three parts. First\, results of an urban mapping exercise are presented which demonstra te how security practices in highly territorialized cities have shaped and continue to influence the manner in which disadvantaged young people are represented as categories of abjection in different times\, places and sca les of the urban landscape. Second\, drawing upon government surveillance data\, a temporalized account of how these practices have changed over tim e is outlined. Finally\, drawing upon archival film sources and interview data\, a description of young people’s response to these practices is ex plored through urban ‘rioting’ and protesting and youth populist movem ent practices. I therefore seek to outline both the divergent and converge nt ways that young people - ‘seen at different times and in different wa ys as threats to public order’ - respond to securitization as they navig ate both the hard edges of urban decay and regeneration in mega or globali zing cities. LOCATION:Room 2S8 Donald McIntyre Building\, Faculty of Education (Room 1S 7)\, 184 Hills Road\, Cambridge CB2 8PQ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR