Claudio Altenhain
Biographic Data
| ID | 4428222 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Claudio Altenhain |
| GIVEN NAMES | Claudio |
| FAMILY NAME | Altenhain |
| SIGNATURE | ALTENHAIN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universität Hamburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9034-1535 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Digital societies in transition
The Cambridge Handbook of Race and Surveillance
Featuring chapters authored by leading scholars in the fields of criminology, critical race studies, history, and more, The Cambridge Handbook of Race and Surveillance cuts across history and geography to provide a detailed examination of how race and surveillance intersect throughout space and time. The volume reviews surveillance technology from the days of colonial conquest to the digital era, focusing on countries such as the United States, C…
Colonialism’s Uneasy Legacy
Roaming around in São Paulo can be quite a stimulating experience: The city’s bustling rhythm, its effervescent cultural life, and its ethnic heterogeneity leave little room for doubt as to why Brazil’s largest city is generally considered South America’s most vibrant and cosmopolitan metropolis. Meanwhile, the city’s “tough concrete poetry” 1 also bespeaks a configuration in which human bodies are dwarfed and citizens are constantly reminded of …
Networked security in the colonial present
The saturation of urban space with all kinds of information and communication technology–driven security devices has long since turned into a recurrent topic of both human geography and critical security studies. However, comparatively little effort has been made to analyze these technologies and infrastructures in relation to their locally specific modes of deployment. This relative failure to account for technopolitical path-dependencies may re…
The Securitization of Society
Von »Neuer Unterschicht« und Prekariat
Die »neue Unterschicht« ist disziplinlos, arbeitsscheu, dumm, fettleibig, fernsehsüchtig - kurz: »Unterschichtler« sind asozial. Solche Zuschreibungen beherrschen die aktuelle Debatte über die »Unterschicht« und das »Prekariat« in seiner »abgehängten« Form. Doch wer wird hier eigentlich beschrieben und was für ein Bild von Gesellschaft wird dabei produziert? Neben der kritischen Auseinandersetzung mit Mainstream-Diskursen über »die da unten« wird…
Networked security in the colonial present
The saturation of urban space with all kinds of information and communication technology–driven security devices has long since turned into a recurrent topic of both human geography and critical security studies. However, comparatively little effort has been made to analyze these technologies and infrastructures in relation to their locally specific modes of deployment. This relative failure to account for technopolitical path-dependencies may re…
Von »Neuer Unterschicht« und Prekariat
Die »neue Unterschicht« ist disziplinlos, arbeitsscheu, dumm, fettleibig, fernsehsüchtig - kurz: »Unterschichtler« sind asozial. Solche Zuschreibungen beherrschen die aktuelle Debatte über die »Unterschicht« und das »Prekariat« in seiner »abgehängten« Form. Doch wer wird hier eigentlich beschrieben und was für ein Bild von Gesellschaft wird dabei produziert? Neben der kritischen Auseinandersetzung mit Mainstream-Diskursen über »die da unten« wird…
The Securitization of Society
The Cambridge Handbook of Race and Surveillance
Featuring chapters authored by leading scholars in the fields of criminology, critical race studies, history, and more, The Cambridge Handbook of Race and Surveillance cuts across history and geography to provide a detailed examination of how race and surveillance intersect throughout space and time. The volume reviews surveillance technology from the days of colonial conquest to the digital era, focusing on countries such as the United States, C…
Colonialism’s Uneasy Legacy
Roaming around in São Paulo can be quite a stimulating experience: The city’s bustling rhythm, its effervescent cultural life, and its ethnic heterogeneity leave little room for doubt as to why Brazil’s largest city is generally considered South America’s most vibrant and cosmopolitan metropolis. Meanwhile, the city’s “tough concrete poetry” 1 also bespeaks a configuration in which human bodies are dwarfed and citizens are constantly reminded of …
Networked security in the colonial present
The saturation of urban space with all kinds of information and communication technology–driven security devices has long since turned into a recurrent topic of both human geography and critical security studies. However, comparatively little effort has been made to analyze these technologies and infrastructures in relation to their locally specific modes of deployment. This relative failure to account for technopolitical path-dependencies may re…
Digital societies in transition
Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Colonialism (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance (2 works) · Criminology (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · History (2 works)