Hille Koskela
Biographic Data
| ID | 1135928 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hille Koskela |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hille |
| FAMILY NAME | Koskela |
| SIGNATURE | KOSKELA H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 545 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Flock of Rogue Drones
This story of Natalija is inspired by Evgeny Zubkov’s artwork titled Russia 2046. The piece depicts an old woman feeding breadcrumbs to drones. We imagine that where the drones are now, there once were birds. What are the relations of these various actors and how can we understand this change? For us, the image of Natalija encapsulates the relationships we as humans can form with non-living creatures, the spaces we share and the practices we enga…
Surveillance
Surveillance has become an important topic in many academic fields, including geography. Surveillance is usually understood as observing people's behavior for the purpose of managing them. Surveillance can be visual, biometric, or based on personal data. Furthermore, surveillance can take place online or focus on physical space or location. Current research understands surveillance not only as a top‐down mechanism but also as a social experience.…
Ludic encounters – understanding surveillance through game metaphors
This article explores the connections between game studies and surveillance studies. Although much of previous research analyzes surveillance as an oppressive practice, a more critical approach has recently identified the playful and enjoyable sides of watching and exposing. Surveillance in fact has many playful and game-like functions, which have not yet been addressed in their full extent. In this article, the vocabulary of play and game is use…
Capture every moment” – the profane semiotics of surveillance advertisements
This article is based on a semiotic interpretation of advertisements marketing surveillance equipment, collected from companies in Helsinki, Finland in 1998 and 2010. By applying "profane semiotics", the social, political and cultural meanings of these advertisements are opened up in the light of the contemporary security governance. The article concludes that within these 12 years, the emphasis of advertising had changed significantly. The polit…
From Momentary to Historic: Rhythms in the Social Production of Urban Space, the Case of CalÇAda De Sant'Ana, Lisbon
This paper presents a study of one street, Calçada de Sant'Ana in Lisbon, Portugal. In 2007, the authors lived on that street for a month. The stay facilitated observations that together help to understand how the social and the spatial are woven together, and how seemingly very different processes, time-scales and types of actor, such as momentary human encounters and slow decay of buildings, produce a specific socio-spatial continuum, a 'street…
Don’t mess with Texas!’ Texas Virtual Border Watch Program and the (botched) politics of responsibilization
In 2008 the USA launched an interactive Internet site called Texas Virtual Border Watch Program through which the public can participate in the US border control. This paper examines the complex politics of watching and being watched in relation to this scheme, using some lines of contemporary surveillance theory as a theoretical frame. The understanding of surveillance has lately faced a fundamental change, since devices and practices which prev…
Hijackers and humble servants: Individuals as camwitnesses in contemporary controlwork
This article examines the relationships between the authorities of surveillance and the public. Four ‘modalities of surveillance’ are used as a contextual framework to describe different relationships and to demonstrate that they can be bidirectional as well as unidirectional. In contemporary surveillance there is a dialogue between traditional surveillance and counter-surveillance which is targeted against the authorities. Yet, surveillance also…
Did You Spot an Alien? Voluntary Vigilance, Borderwork and the Texas Virtual Border Watch Program
In 2008, the US launched an Internet site, the Texas Virtual Border Watch Program, which shows real-time video from the US–Mexico border. With this site, anyone can participate in US border control. In this article, the programme is discussed in relation to contemporary theories of border studies: the relocation of borders, borderwork and the bordering process. The programme is described as part of a widespread voluntary vigilance and as a contin…
Rule's Privacy in Peril
James Rule takes up the timely issue of privacy in the age of global terrorism and post 9/11 forms of social control.He presents the history of information gathering in the United States, and places privacy into its new context of The Patriot Act.Here, 9/11 is understood as a turning point, after which the political economy of private information has been largely driven by the culture of fear.The rhetoric of security is used to legitimate possibl…
Surveillance Studies needs Gender and Sexuality
‘The other side of surveillance’: Webcams, power and agency
There are more and more sites on the Internet which include visual representations of material, ‘real places’. Some of the so-called webcams promote the images of cities being an increasingly important place marketing tool. The most iconic tourist cities especially provide images that aim to give these material places new meaning in the virtual space. Other sites include privately run ‘home webcams’ which present the daily lives of individuals. F…
Sold out!” Women's practices of resistance against prostitution related sexual harassment
Webcams, TV Shows and Mobile phones: Empowering Exhibitionism
The roles of visual representations have been multiplied. In contrast of being targets of the ever-increasing surveillance, people seek to play an active role in the production of images, thus, reclaiming the copyright of their own lives. In this article, three examples of this development are examined. 'Reality shows' in TV aim to create an impression of the viewer participating in crime control. Mobile phones with cameras enable individuals to …
Video Surveillance, Gender, and the Safety of Public Urban Space: "Peeping Tom" Goes High Tech
The obsession with security has been claimed to be the master narrative of contemporary urban design. This paper explores some of the complex relationships between security, space and gender. The paper shows how gender is linked in various ways to the practices of video surveillance and to how it is executed and experienced. First, links to sexual harassment are examined. Technical surveillance is not only insensitive to possible cases of harassm…
Cam Era' - the contemporary urban Panopticon
Deriving from Foucault's work, space is understood to be crucial in explaining social power relations. However, not only is space crucial to the exercise of power but power also creates a particular kind of space. Through surveillance cameras the panoptic technology of power is electronically extended. The article examines parallelisms and differences with the Panopticon and contemporary cities: visibility, unverifiability, contextual control, ab…
Revisiting fear and place: Women's fear of attack and the built environment
The gaze without eyes: Video-Surveillance and the Changing Nature of Urban Space
This article discusses how ever-increasing video-surveillance is changing the nature of urban space. The article evaluates whether surveillance can be seen as a means of making space safer and 'more available'. The main focus is on surveillance in publicly accessible spaces, such as shopping malls, city streets and places for public transport. The article explains how space under surveillance is formed, and how it is related to power structures a…
Gendered Exclusions’: Women's fear of violence and changing relations to space
This paper examines how women's fear of violence is realised as spatial exclusions. Quantitative surveys on fear are used to show the number of women who are afraid, and the nature of the most frightening places. However, it is argued that quantitative surveys are of limited value in approaching the mental and social processes behind fear and in understanding the fear‐related production of space. Qualitative research methods are used to explain t…
Gendered Exclusions: Women's fear of violence and changing relations to space
Gendered Exclusions: Women's Fear of Violence and Changing Relations to Space
Bold Walk and Breakings: Women's spatial confidence versus fear of violence
This article explores women's fear of urban violence from a spatial perspective. It is based on qualitative data collected in Finland. It shows first that women do not have to be fearful. Boldness is associated with freedom, equality, and a sense of control over, and possession of space. Secondly, the article considers how and why fear of violence undermines some women's confidence, restricting their access to, and activity within, public space. …
Revisiting fear and place: Women's fear of attack and the built environment
The gaze without eyes: Video-Surveillance and the Changing Nature of Urban Space
This article discusses how ever-increasing video-surveillance is changing the nature of urban space. The article evaluates whether surveillance can be seen as a means of making space safer and 'more available'. The main focus is on surveillance in publicly accessible spaces, such as shopping malls, city streets and places for public transport. The article explains how space under surveillance is formed, and how it is related to power structures a…
Bold Walk and Breakings: Women's spatial confidence versus fear of violence
This article explores women's fear of urban violence from a spatial perspective. It is based on qualitative data collected in Finland. It shows first that women do not have to be fearful. Boldness is associated with freedom, equality, and a sense of control over, and possession of space. Secondly, the article considers how and why fear of violence undermines some women's confidence, restricting their access to, and activity within, public space. …
Cam Era' - the contemporary urban Panopticon
Deriving from Foucault's work, space is understood to be crucial in explaining social power relations. However, not only is space crucial to the exercise of power but power also creates a particular kind of space. Through surveillance cameras the panoptic technology of power is electronically extended. The article examines parallelisms and differences with the Panopticon and contemporary cities: visibility, unverifiability, contextual control, ab…
Gendered Exclusions: Women's Fear of Violence and Changing Relations to Space
Gendered Exclusions’: Women's fear of violence and changing relations to space
This paper examines how women's fear of violence is realised as spatial exclusions. Quantitative surveys on fear are used to show the number of women who are afraid, and the nature of the most frightening places. However, it is argued that quantitative surveys are of limited value in approaching the mental and social processes behind fear and in understanding the fear‐related production of space. Qualitative research methods are used to explain t…
Video Surveillance, Gender, and the Safety of Public Urban Space: "Peeping Tom" Goes High Tech
The obsession with security has been claimed to be the master narrative of contemporary urban design. This paper explores some of the complex relationships between security, space and gender. The paper shows how gender is linked in various ways to the practices of video surveillance and to how it is executed and experienced. First, links to sexual harassment are examined. Technical surveillance is not only insensitive to possible cases of harassm…
Webcams, TV Shows and Mobile phones: Empowering Exhibitionism
The roles of visual representations have been multiplied. In contrast of being targets of the ever-increasing surveillance, people seek to play an active role in the production of images, thus, reclaiming the copyright of their own lives. In this article, three examples of this development are examined. 'Reality shows' in TV aim to create an impression of the viewer participating in crime control. Mobile phones with cameras enable individuals to …
Hijackers and humble servants: Individuals as camwitnesses in contemporary controlwork
This article examines the relationships between the authorities of surveillance and the public. Four ‘modalities of surveillance’ are used as a contextual framework to describe different relationships and to demonstrate that they can be bidirectional as well as unidirectional. In contemporary surveillance there is a dialogue between traditional surveillance and counter-surveillance which is targeted against the authorities. Yet, surveillance also…
Sold out!” Women's practices of resistance against prostitution related sexual harassment
Did You Spot an Alien? Voluntary Vigilance, Borderwork and the Texas Virtual Border Watch Program
In 2008, the US launched an Internet site, the Texas Virtual Border Watch Program, which shows real-time video from the US–Mexico border. With this site, anyone can participate in US border control. In this article, the programme is discussed in relation to contemporary theories of border studies: the relocation of borders, borderwork and the bordering process. The programme is described as part of a widespread voluntary vigilance and as a contin…
Don’t mess with Texas!’ Texas Virtual Border Watch Program and the (botched) politics of responsibilization
In 2008 the USA launched an interactive Internet site called Texas Virtual Border Watch Program through which the public can participate in the US border control. This paper examines the complex politics of watching and being watched in relation to this scheme, using some lines of contemporary surveillance theory as a theoretical frame. The understanding of surveillance has lately faced a fundamental change, since devices and practices which prev…
Capture every moment” – the profane semiotics of surveillance advertisements
This article is based on a semiotic interpretation of advertisements marketing surveillance equipment, collected from companies in Helsinki, Finland in 1998 and 2010. By applying "profane semiotics", the social, political and cultural meanings of these advertisements are opened up in the light of the contemporary security governance. The article concludes that within these 12 years, the emphasis of advertising had changed significantly. The polit…
Surveillance Studies needs Gender and Sexuality
From Momentary to Historic: Rhythms in the Social Production of Urban Space, the Case of CalÇAda De Sant'Ana, Lisbon
This paper presents a study of one street, Calçada de Sant'Ana in Lisbon, Portugal. In 2007, the authors lived on that street for a month. The stay facilitated observations that together help to understand how the social and the spatial are woven together, and how seemingly very different processes, time-scales and types of actor, such as momentary human encounters and slow decay of buildings, produce a specific socio-spatial continuum, a 'street…
Rule's Privacy in Peril
James Rule takes up the timely issue of privacy in the age of global terrorism and post 9/11 forms of social control.He presents the history of information gathering in the United States, and places privacy into its new context of The Patriot Act.Here, 9/11 is understood as a turning point, after which the political economy of private information has been largely driven by the culture of fear.The rhetoric of security is used to legitimate possibl…
Gendered Exclusions: Women's fear of violence and changing relations to space
Bold Walk and Breakings: Women's spatial confidence versus fear of violence
This article explores women's fear of urban violence from a spatial perspective. It is based on qualitative data collected in Finland. It shows first that women do not have to be fearful. Boldness is associated with freedom, equality, and a sense of control over, and possession of space. Secondly, the article considers how and why fear of violence undermines some women's confidence, restricting their access to, and activity within, public space. …
Gendered Exclusions’: Women's fear of violence and changing relations to space
This paper examines how women's fear of violence is realised as spatial exclusions. Quantitative surveys on fear are used to show the number of women who are afraid, and the nature of the most frightening places. However, it is argued that quantitative surveys are of limited value in approaching the mental and social processes behind fear and in understanding the fear‐related production of space. Qualitative research methods are used to explain t…
Gendered Exclusions: Women's fear of violence and changing relations to space
Gendered Exclusions: Women's Fear of Violence and Changing Relations to Space
Revisiting fear and place: Women's fear of attack and the built environment
The gaze without eyes: Video-Surveillance and the Changing Nature of Urban Space
This article discusses how ever-increasing video-surveillance is changing the nature of urban space. The article evaluates whether surveillance can be seen as a means of making space safer and 'more available'. The main focus is on surveillance in publicly accessible spaces, such as shopping malls, city streets and places for public transport. The article explains how space under surveillance is formed, and how it is related to power structures a…
Webcams, TV Shows and Mobile phones: Empowering Exhibitionism
The roles of visual representations have been multiplied. In contrast of being targets of the ever-increasing surveillance, people seek to play an active role in the production of images, thus, reclaiming the copyright of their own lives. In this article, three examples of this development are examined. 'Reality shows' in TV aim to create an impression of the viewer participating in crime control. Mobile phones with cameras enable individuals to …
Video Surveillance, Gender, and the Safety of Public Urban Space: "Peeping Tom" Goes High Tech
The obsession with security has been claimed to be the master narrative of contemporary urban design. This paper explores some of the complex relationships between security, space and gender. The paper shows how gender is linked in various ways to the practices of video surveillance and to how it is executed and experienced. First, links to sexual harassment are examined. Technical surveillance is not only insensitive to possible cases of harassm…
Cam Era' - the contemporary urban Panopticon
Deriving from Foucault's work, space is understood to be crucial in explaining social power relations. However, not only is space crucial to the exercise of power but power also creates a particular kind of space. Through surveillance cameras the panoptic technology of power is electronically extended. The article examines parallelisms and differences with the Panopticon and contemporary cities: visibility, unverifiability, contextual control, ab…
Sold out!” Women's practices of resistance against prostitution related sexual harassment
‘The other side of surveillance’: Webcams, power and agency
There are more and more sites on the Internet which include visual representations of material, ‘real places’. Some of the so-called webcams promote the images of cities being an increasingly important place marketing tool. The most iconic tourist cities especially provide images that aim to give these material places new meaning in the virtual space. Other sites include privately run ‘home webcams’ which present the daily lives of individuals. F…
Rule's Privacy in Peril
James Rule takes up the timely issue of privacy in the age of global terrorism and post 9/11 forms of social control.He presents the history of information gathering in the United States, and places privacy into its new context of The Patriot Act.Here, 9/11 is understood as a turning point, after which the political economy of private information has been largely driven by the culture of fear.The rhetoric of security is used to legitimate possibl…
Surveillance Studies needs Gender and Sexuality
Did You Spot an Alien? Voluntary Vigilance, Borderwork and the Texas Virtual Border Watch Program
In 2008, the US launched an Internet site, the Texas Virtual Border Watch Program, which shows real-time video from the US–Mexico border. With this site, anyone can participate in US border control. In this article, the programme is discussed in relation to contemporary theories of border studies: the relocation of borders, borderwork and the bordering process. The programme is described as part of a widespread voluntary vigilance and as a contin…
Don’t mess with Texas!’ Texas Virtual Border Watch Program and the (botched) politics of responsibilization
In 2008 the USA launched an interactive Internet site called Texas Virtual Border Watch Program through which the public can participate in the US border control. This paper examines the complex politics of watching and being watched in relation to this scheme, using some lines of contemporary surveillance theory as a theoretical frame. The understanding of surveillance has lately faced a fundamental change, since devices and practices which prev…
Hijackers and humble servants: Individuals as camwitnesses in contemporary controlwork
This article examines the relationships between the authorities of surveillance and the public. Four ‘modalities of surveillance’ are used as a contextual framework to describe different relationships and to demonstrate that they can be bidirectional as well as unidirectional. In contemporary surveillance there is a dialogue between traditional surveillance and counter-surveillance which is targeted against the authorities. Yet, surveillance also…
From Momentary to Historic: Rhythms in the Social Production of Urban Space, the Case of CalÇAda De Sant'Ana, Lisbon
This paper presents a study of one street, Calçada de Sant'Ana in Lisbon, Portugal. In 2007, the authors lived on that street for a month. The stay facilitated observations that together help to understand how the social and the spatial are woven together, and how seemingly very different processes, time-scales and types of actor, such as momentary human encounters and slow decay of buildings, produce a specific socio-spatial continuum, a 'street…
Capture every moment” – the profane semiotics of surveillance advertisements
This article is based on a semiotic interpretation of advertisements marketing surveillance equipment, collected from companies in Helsinki, Finland in 1998 and 2010. By applying "profane semiotics", the social, political and cultural meanings of these advertisements are opened up in the light of the contemporary security governance. The article concludes that within these 12 years, the emphasis of advertising had changed significantly. The polit…
Ludic encounters – understanding surveillance through game metaphors
This article explores the connections between game studies and surveillance studies. Although much of previous research analyzes surveillance as an oppressive practice, a more critical approach has recently identified the playful and enjoyable sides of watching and exposing. Surveillance in fact has many playful and game-like functions, which have not yet been addressed in their full extent. In this article, the vocabulary of play and game is use…
Surveillance
Surveillance has become an important topic in many academic fields, including geography. Surveillance is usually understood as observing people's behavior for the purpose of managing them. Surveillance can be visual, biometric, or based on personal data. Furthermore, surveillance can take place online or focus on physical space or location. Current research understands surveillance not only as a top‐down mechanism but also as a social experience.…
Flock of Rogue Drones
This story of Natalija is inspired by Evgeny Zubkov’s artwork titled Russia 2046. The piece depicts an old woman feeding breadcrumbs to drones. We imagine that where the drones are now, there once were birds. What are the relations of these various actors and how can we understand this change? For us, the image of Natalija encapsulates the relationships we as humans can form with non-living creatures, the spaces we share and the practices we enga…
Sociology (19 works) · Computer Science (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Public relations (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Criminology (6 works) · Engineering (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works)