‘Everything-old-is-new-again’: Private urban security governance responses to new harmscapes

Julie Berg and Clifford Shearing
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Julie Berg: University of Glasgow, UK
Clifford Shearing: University of Toronto, Canada

Urban Studies, 2024, vol. 61, issue 14, 2703-2718

Abstract: This article reflects on the proliferation of novel forms of private urban security governance assemblages, specifically the roles of private auspices and providers in responding to contemporary climate-related socio-material harmscapes. The authors use the lens of climatic harms and associated discursive shifts in understandings of the relationship between humans and ‘nature’ to draw attention to gating adaptations, assemblages of powers and capacities being mobilised in response to emerging harmscapes, the logics and technologies underpinning these developments, the roles of established security agents and novel security professionals and the use of resilience as a conceptual framing. These security governance ventures are conceived of as mutating private urban security governance vestiges from PUSG 1.0 to PUSG 2.0 and in this regard, ‘climate gating’ is used as an emblematic example in exploring PUSG 2.0.

Keywords: Anthropocene; climate gating; polycentric; private urban security governance; resilience; 人类世; 气候门控; 多中心; ç§ äººåŸŽå¸‚å®‰å…¨æ²»ç †; å¤ åŽŸåŠ› (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1177/00420980241231240

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