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Klauser, Francisco
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Klauser, Francisco
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- PublicationAccès libreThinking through territoriality: introducing Claude Raffestin to Anglophone sociospatial theory(2012)This introductory paper establishes the grounds for a more sustained discussion of Claude Raffestin’s understanding of human territoriality in its contribution to contemporary geographical debates. The purpose is to highlight the broad, and fundamentally interrelated, philosophical, epistemological, and political ambitions of Raffestin’s work, before elucidating some of the key conceptual pillars of his relational thinking through territoriality. In this, particular emphasis will be placed on the concept of mediation. The proposed engagement with Raffestin’s work offers an opportunity not only for revisiting territoriality in its value for contemporary political geography and sociospatial theory, and for rethinking the positioning and contribution of Raffestin’s oeuvre itself, but also for critically reflecting upon the spaces and power relationships of geographical knowledge production today and in the past.
- PublicationAccès libreDisturbances in the Sensory Experience of the City: CCTV and the Development of an Unreal Urban "Parallel World"(2007)In order to emphasize the importance of understanding the experience of the city as one that includes all human senses, this article focuses on the increasing use of CCTV in city centers. As we can see by looking at the array of monitors within control rooms of CCTV systems, surveillance cameras contribute to the development of a "parallel world" created by the assemblage of decontextualized images coming from monitored places throughout the city. Thus, sitting in the indoor space of CCTV control rooms, as if in a capsule, camera operators live an exclusively technologically mediated experience of the city.
However, public space users can neither cognitively know nor sensually approach these hidden spaces, nor can they know or perceive the new urban boundaries between monitored and not monitored places. From the point of view of monitored individuals, this paper shows that the dissociation between hidden spaces of control and fully exposed public space results in an intangible feeling of a new kind of indeterminable superficiality that ultimately leads to the personal withdrawal from this confusing reality.
On an empirical level, the resulting disturbance in the (sensory) relationship between the self and the surrounding territory in connection with video surveillance is studied by the example of CCTV of street prostitution in the Swiss city of Olten. On the basis of thirteen in-depth interviews conducted with street-users this paper points out how the CCTV implied spatial and mental separation between how the world behind and the world below the cameras is lived and experienced.