Till F. Paasche’s research while affiliated with Soran University and other places

... This is particularly evident in the case of the idyllic urban future alluded to by smart city advocates, which has received criticism regarding the inherent connection to neoliberal ideology (Barns, 2016), the unequal geographical application of services (Moran, 2021), alterations to the meaning of urban citizenship (Hatuka & Zur, 2020a) and concerns relating to data privacy and surveillance (Cuppini et al., 2025;Sadowski, 2020;Zuboff, 2018), in the actually existing smart city (Karvonen et al., 2019;Shelton et al., 2015). In this way, critical scholarship of digital urban solutions can be seen adopting a stance exclusively focused on the pessimistic dystopian externalities characterized by asymmetrical inequality and hierarchical social structuring in reallife urban contexts that do not reflect the idealized smart city promoted by technology companies and technophilic city managers (Söderström et al., 2020). This is largely due to the tendencies of smart initiatives to depict a collective utopian experience which, when holistically analyzed, appears to be inherently untrue due to the dominance of a top-down approach which ultimately works to uphold the position of society's elite (Grossi & Pianezzi, 2017). ...

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Beyond dystopian smart cities? Unlocking a progressive utopian future in smart urbanism

... For example, future discussions might consider how hotels have been appropriated by migrants' rights' groups as resources for accommodation and squatting in rejection of the formal accommodation models and carceral constraints of the state, with the short-lived tenure of City Plaza in Athens serving as the highest profile example (Lafazani, 2018). Similarly, cases of the formal reworking of hotels, such as the Magdas Hotel in Vienna, where asylum seekers and refugees are provided with employment and training through the hotel (Deshpande, 2015;Rokem et al., 2017); forms of co-housing in which hotel infrastructures are reused for collective housing that traverses immigration status (Oliver et al., 2020); and innovative projects such as the Grandhotel Cosmopolis in Augsburg that combined a hotel with an asylum centre, café and artistic space (Zill et al., 2020), all provide valuable inversions of the carceral tendencies of governmental uses of hotels. At the same time, as Piacentini et al. (2022, pp. ...

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Hotels, refuge, and the rise of carceral hospitality

... While the above segment has shown that there is compelling evidence, based on case studies from European countries suggesting that there is an increasing link between migrants and terrorism, some studies argue that the link has been decreasing since the defeat of ISIS in Iraq and Syria (Paasche and Gunter, 2016;Speckhard et al., 2017). However, with emerging claims in South Africa's media that some migrants are being sanctioned by the USA for their alleged links with terror groups, this paper is cognizant that the enactment of the foregoing claims reveal that there might be a corresponding link between Mozambican migrants and the ongoing insurgency in Cabo Delgado and other parts of Africa. ...

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South Africa's Counterinsurgency in Cabo Delgado: Examining the Role of Mozambican Migrants to Establish a People-Centric Approach

... All of this, in the words of De Herdt and Olivier de Sardan (2015: 6), results in 'a patchwork of practices that are co-constitutive of the state's agency'. As such, border governance is anything but uniform, even within a single country, since border crossing and its control are highly contingent upon local practices (Paasche and Sidaway, 2015;Ngo, 2023). ...

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GRAY GOVERNANCE AT BORDER CHECKPOINTS : Regulating Shadow Trade at the Sino‐Kazakh Border

... This paper contributes to the discussion on fieldwork in risky areas, more specifically the adaptation of research projects to field accessibility constraints through the development of transdisciplinary research partnerships, including partnerships with non-academic collaborators (Balsiger, 2004;Krueger et al., 2016). Anthropologists and political scientists have argued that co-producing fieldwork with non-academic partners is particularly useful in complex field contexts as it allows researchers to draw on the various strengths of collaborating agencies to navigate high-uncertainty field situations (Kovats Bernat, 2002;Nordstrom & Robben, 1995;Paasche, 2016). We show here how an increasingly risky field site in the Far North of Cameroon shaped research interactions across academic and non-academic researchers from different backgrounds and countries, to support the resilience of a large "Coupled Human and Natural Systems" research project, which included social and natural science components . ...

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Co‐producing research in the “Red Zone ”: Adaptation to fieldwork constraints with a transdisciplinary approach

... For Fyfe (1991Fyfe ( , 1992, geography was well positioned to take on policing as a primary area of research given how geographers are keenly aware of how place acts as a co-constitutive agent in the production of social life, and how territoriality is key to how the state conceptualizes and confronts criminality therein (c.f. Yarwood & Paasche, 2015; see also Boyce, Banister, & Slack, 2015). ...

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Police and policing in geography: From methods, to theory, to praxis

... Esses grupos também passaram a funcionar como o exército da região curda, controlando as fronteiras das áreas administradas pelo PYD, a fronteira com o Curdistão iraquiano e parte da fronteira com a Turquia. Criaram-se também novas unidades de polícia, responsáveis pelos checkpoints urbanos, em estradas e rodovias, e por fornecer segurança aos edifícios públicos (Paasche, 2015). ...

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A QUESTÃO CURDA NA GUERRA DA SÍRIA: DINÂMICAS INTERNAS E IMPACTOS REGIONAIS

... Este autor es de relevancia por sus vínculos con Foucault y sobre todo por su filosofía. Significa que Paasche (2015) y Klauser (2014), quienes colaboran entre sí, poseen un discurso que se va alejando del foucaultiano y se va asociando con el territorio. En cuanto a la sexta agrupación se identificaron a Bruzzone (2019), Minhoto (2015) y Dodsworth (2012). ...

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El discurso sobre la ciudad desde el poder en Foucault

... It is an intermediary living area where spontaneous interaction between residents in the kampung occurs (Prayitno, 2013), a part of environment identity and its social interactions (Mehta, 2014) and the pattern of interaction (Abdul Rahim and Hashim, 2018). Moreover, this space underlies people's daily life (Paasche, Yarwood and Sidaway, 2014) where they can carry out activities depending on necessity and highly influences their behaviour (Szauter, 2019). In previous studies, territorial behaviour was often conveyed as privacy (Madanipour, 2003), defense (Ratna and Ikaputra, 2019), certain social purpose (Murphy, 2012), and security (Paasche, Yarwood and Sidaway, 2014). ...

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Territorial Invasion: A Behaviour in Sustaining Social Space in a Kampung. A case study: Prawirotaman, Indonesia

... Nevertheless, the primary mode of governance of persons on the street takes place according to Foucault's concept of security. deviations, seeking instead to optimise, minimise or maximise rather than eliminate (Klauser et al., 2014). ...

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8. Atmospheric Profiling and Surveillance in the Stratumseind Living Lab: Pushing the Limits of Identifiability