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Söderström, Ola

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Söderström, Ola
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ola.soderstrom@unine.ch
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    More-than-local, more-than-mobile: The smart city effect in South Africa
    (2021-4-30)
    Söderström, Ola 
    ;
    Blake, Evan
    This paper explores how the smart city phenomenon becomes nearly ubiquitous in countries and cities around the world. Drawing on policy mobility studies and cosmopolitisation – defined as globalization from within – it focuses on the roll-out and take-up of smart city narratives and interventions in South Africa since 2005. Based on a media analysis on national and local scales, the paper shows that the smart city effect is an entangled phenomenon. Generally speaking, it consists of a lexical glue that holds together processes of data-driven neoliberalisation of urban governance. However, at municipal level we observe more variegated effects of reverse-scale policymaking, labelling and territorialisation where the smart city appears as a more-than-mobile but also as a more-than-local urban policy.
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    ReliÂge – Activités, ressources et obstacles pour les personnes âgées dans trois communes du canton de Neuchâtel
    (Neuchâtel Institut de géographie et Institut de psychologie et éducation, Université de Neuchâtel, 2021-4)
    Gfeller, Fabienne 
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    Schoepfer, Isabelle 
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    Ruggeri, Aurora
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    Söderström, Ola 
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    Zittoun, Tania 
    Ce rapport présente les résultats de la recherche dirigée par une équipe de l’Université de Neuchâtel dans le cadre du projet ReliÂge, mené en collaboration avec le Service Cantonal de la Santé Publique du Canton de Neuchâtel (SCSP) et le Réseau Urbain Neuchâtelois (RUN), dans le cadre d’un projet financé par Promotion Santé Suisse, et visant à promouvoir la santé des personnes âgées, et en particulier, à lutter contre leur isolement.
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    The three modes of existence of the pandemic smart city
    (2020-10-9)
    Söderström, Ola 
    Working on the provincialisation of the smart city in South Africa and India, the members of our research team recently witnessed, as the Covid-19 pandemic spread across the five countries in which we live and work, the emergence of a ‘pandemic smart city’. Technologies, institutions, organisations and people we were observing and working with were repurposed, reshaped or reoriented in efforts to manage and mitigate the public health crisis. Drawing on work on ontological pluralism and on postcolonial urban studies, this introductory piece and the articles in this special issue argue that the management of the pandemic in cities of the Global South is closely intertwined with the three modes of existence of the smart city: the state-led, corporate-led and citizen-led smart city.
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    When Airbnb Sits in the Control Room: Platform Urbanism as Actually Existing Smart Urbanism in Reykjavík
    (2020-5-14)
    Söderström, Ola 
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    Mermet, Anne-Cécile
    Platform urbanism understood as the impact of digital platforms on the materiality, daily lives and governance of cities is, we argue in this paper, a powerful form of actually existing smart urbanism. While public attention tends to be grabbed by the control rooms and sensors of smart city narratives, the increasing density of interactions with, and transactions through, digital platforms rapidly, and profoundly reshapes the dynamics of cities and their regulation. The paper investigates platform urbanism by focusing on the “Airbnb effect” in the city of Reykjavik. Based on this case-study we argue that through their ubiquity and the control they have over code and data, platform companies increasingly tend to sit in cities' control rooms. In its conclusion, the paper calls for more studies on three issues—“datapower”; platform effects on cities; and regulatory frames—to nurture a democratic debate on this ongoing corporatization of urban governance.
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    Urban remediation: a new recovery-oriented strategy to manage urban stress after first-episode psychosis
    (2019-10-9)
    Baumann, Philipp S.
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    Söderström, Ola 
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    Abrahamyan Empson, Lilith
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    Söderström, Dag
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    Codeluppi, Zoé 
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    Golay, Philippe
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    Birchwood, Max
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    Conus, Philippe
    Purpose : Urban living is a major risk factor for psychosis. Considering worldwide increasing rates of urbanization, new approaches are needed to enhance patients’ wellbeing in cities. Recent data suggest that once psychosis has emerged, patients struggle to adapt to urban milieu and that they lose access to city centers, which contributes to isolation and reduced social contacts. While it is acknowledged that there are promising initiatives to improve mental health in cities, concrete therapeutic strategies to help patients with psychosis to better handle urban stress are lacking. We believe that we should no longer wait to develop and test new therapeutic approaches. Method : In this review, we first focus on the role of urban planning, policies, and design, and second on possible novel therapeutic strategies at the individual level. We review how patients with psychosis may experience stress in the urban environment. We then review and describe a set of possible strategies, which could be proposed to patients with the first-episode psychosis. Results : We propose to group these strategies under the umbrella term of ‘urban remediation’ and discuss how this novel approach could help patients to recover from their first psychotic episode. Conclusion : The concepts developed in this paper are speculative and a lot of work remains to be done before it can be usefully proposed to patients. However, considering the high prevalence of social withdrawal and its detrimental impact on the recovery process, we strongly believe that researchers should invest this new domain to help patients regain access to city centers.
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    City Avoidance in the Early Phase of Psychosis: A Neglected Domain of Assessment and a Potential Target for Recovery Strategies
    (2019-6-3)
    Conus, Philippe
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    Empson, Lilith Abrahamyan
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    Codeluppi, Zoé 
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    Baumann, Philipp Sebastien
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    Söderström, Ola 
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    Söderström, Dag
    ;
    Golay, Philippe
    Background: A considerable amount of research has explored the link between living in an urban environment during childhood and the increased risk to develop psychosis. However, the urban milieu is more than a risk factor as it is also a place for socialization and enrichment. The aims of the current study were to explore, in a large sample of early psychosis (EP) patients, their pattern of use of the city, their perception when exposed to various critical stressors, and their sensitivity to diverse forms of stimuli. Methods: We sent a questionnaire (based on previous work conducted in a group of patients, including video-recorded walk-along in the city and a literature review) to 305 EP patients and to 220 medical students. Results: Response rate in patients was low (38%). City avoidance and negative perceptions towards the urban environment increased in patients after onset of psychosis. Patients’ tendency to avoid city center correlates with both problematic social interactions and stimuli perceived as unpleasant. Patients seemed less likely to enjoy urban spaces considered as relaxing, suggesting a lower capacity to benefit from positive aspects of this environment. Conclusions: The development of psychosis influences the way EP patients perceive the city and their capacity to feel at ease in the urban environment, leading to a high rate of city avoidance. Considering the possible influence of city avoidance on social relations and the recovery process, the development of strategies to help patients in this regard may have a significant effect on their recovery process.
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    ‘On edge?’: Studies in precarious urbanisms
    (2019-5-10)
    Philo, Chris
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    Parr, Hester
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    Söderström, Ola 
    This paper introduces the following Geoforum special issue on the theme of ‘Precarious Urbanisms’. Weaving into brief discussion of ‘precariousness’ and ‘precarity’, referencing the insights of Judith Butler, the paper reflects upon a distinctive move – characterising all of the eight papers comprising the special issue – whereby the entangled relations between precariousness and precarity play out in creating states and feelings of ‘on-edgeness’. This phrase encompasses the sense of peoples living ‘on the edge’, pushed to socio-spatial margins that may be literally peripheral, on the fringes of densely-populated (urban) sites of human inhabitation and activity, or more messily interstitial, found in the nooks, crannies and decaying or impermanent infrastructures of cities. Additionally, however, the phrase suggests the sense of peoples living ‘on edge’ – anxiously, fearfully, precariously – and whose ‘psychic topographies’, to borrow another term from Butler, may be mentally stressed and strained to and beyond breaking-points. As such, this special issue bridges across from classic (politicaleconomic) work on urban precarity to concerns addressed in the orbit of ‘mental health geographies’, tackling the making and possible unmaking of precariousness as an injurious way of being-in-the-world. Reference is made throughout this introduction to the other papers contributing to the special issue.
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    Precarious encounters with urban life: The city/psychosis nexus beyond epidemiology and social constructivism
    (2019-3-8)
    Söderström, Ola 
    The article analyses the specific sense of precarity experienced in cities by persons living with a diagnosis of schizophrenia. It aims to bring a social science perspective on precarity as embodied affect into conversation with perspectives on psychosis in the life sciences. To do so the article focuses on two moments in an interdisciplinary research process involving psychiatrists, linguists and geographers. The first is an epistemic moment describing the co-design of a research laboratory across the social and the life sciences to study participants' precarious encounters with urban situations. The second is an ontological moment discussing the results of co-experimentation across disciplines in the research team. It shows how collaboration within the team led to a redefinition of our respective analytical categories and discusses empirical findings concerning factors of urban stress and protection for persons living with a diagnosis of schizophrenia. The conclusion situates the socio-natural analysis of urban precarity developed in the paper within broader contemporary discussions on the study of bio-social entanglements. Arguing for epistemological plurality and ontological contamination, the paper is both a methodological contribution to contemporary debates in geographies of health and a contribution to studies of urban precarity.
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    New Punitiveness on the Move: How the US Prison Model and Penal Policy Arrived in Colombia
    (2018)
    De Dardel, Julie 
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    Söderström, Ola 
    Within the neocolonial context of ‘Plan Colombia’ in the early 2000s, agents of the US Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) took position in the heart of the Colombian penitentiary administration to lead a reform based on the US ultra-punitive penal regime. This paper analyzes how the reform was set up on the ground, shedding light on the partially divergent expectations of both governments. Drawing on recent literature on the mobility of policies and built forms, the paper argues that the introduction of US-inspired prisons in Colombia is a striking case where a mobile policy and a traveling architectural type coincided and complemented each other.
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    Emplacing recovery: How persons diagnosed with psychosis handle stress in cities
    (2017-7-19)
    Söderström, Ola 
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    Söderström, Dag
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    Codeluppi, Zoé 
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    Abrahamyan Empson, Lilith
    ;
    Conus, Philippe
    The background of this study is recent work on the correlation between urban living and psychosis. It is part of a larger interdisciplinary research project using an experience-based approach to the city-psychosis nexus. The aim of this paper is to investigate how, soon after a first episode of psychosis, patients manage urban factors of stress. Methodologically, it is based on video-elicitation interviews of urban walks and ethnographic observations in a community care centre in the city of Lausanne, Switzerland. It shows that patients use three tactics: creating sensory bubbles; programming mobility; and creating places of comfort. On the basis of these findings, the paper discusses how the approach and results of our study can inform strategies of recovery that are both user-driven and take into consideration the importance of places and situations in the city in the phase following a first episode.