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Söderström, Ola

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Söderström, Ola
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ola.soderstrom@unine.ch
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https://libra.unine.ch/handle/123456789/395

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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
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    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.
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    On alternative smart cities : From a technology-intensive to a knowledge-intensive smart urbanism
    (2017-6-8)
    McFarlane, Colin
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    Söderström, Ola 
    Smart urbanism seems to be everywhere you turn. But in practice the agenda is an uncertain one, usually only partially developed, and often more about corporate-led urban development than about urban social justice. Rather than leave smart urbanism to the corporate and political elites, there are opportunities now for critical urban scholarship to not only critique how it is currently constituted, but to give shape to a globally oriented alternative smart urban agenda. An ambition like this means taking the ‘urban’ in ‘smart urban’ much more seriously. It means foregrounding the knowledges, political priorities and needs of those either actively excluded or included in damaging ways in mainstream smart urban discourses. We outline steps towards an alternative smart urbanism. We seek to move beyond the specific to the general and do so by drawing on radically different initiatives across the Global North and South. These initiatives provide tantalizing openings to a more socially just use of digital technology, where urban priorities and justice drive the use—or lack of use—of technology.
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    Analysing urban government at a distance: with and beyond actor-network theory
    (London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2017)
    Söderström, Ola 
    This Chapter aims to identify the reach and limits of concepts developed within actor-network theory (ANT) for understanding contemporary transformations in urban planning and development. It focuses on the analysis of urban government at a distance through the role of three important mediators: models, images and discourses. I argue that ANT's focus on intermediaries and translation procedures in the construction of translocal planning assemblages is heuristically powerful. However, to better understand the relatedness of urban policies, urban and planning studies need to look beyond these classic ANT tools. In particular, we need a broader reception of ANT as well as the resources of other approaches to capture the role of global urban policymaking, computer-generated images and post-coloniality.
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    Unpacking ‘the City’: An experience-based approach to the role of urban living in psychosis
    (2016-11)
    Söderström, Ola 
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    Abrahamyan Empson, Lilith
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    Codeluppi, Zoé 
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    Söderström, Dag
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    Baumann, Philipp S.
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    Conus, Philippe
    Primarily on the basis of epidemiological studies, recent research in psychiatry has established a robust link between urban living and psychosis. This paper argues first, that an experienced-based approach, moving beyond epidemiology, is needed in order to enable more fine-grained understandings of the city/psychosis nexus. The second part of the paper presents preliminary fieldwork results based on video-elicitation sessions with first-episode patients with psychotic disorders. These results lead to the generation of a series of hypotheses for further research on the role of density, sensory overload and social interaction as factors in the onset of non-affective psychoses. The conclusion discusses the insights gained from viewing the city as an experiential milieu rather than as a set of substances. We argue that such insights enable, on the one hand, observation of the role of specific places and situations - and thus to unpack ‘the city’; and, on the other, to envisage the urban milieu as a nexus of possible sites of recovery.
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    “I don’t care about places”: the whereabouts of design in mental health care
    (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2016)
    Söderström, Ola 
    Ola Söderström engages in a geographical investigation of the relationship between the urban milieu and psychosis, with a focus on young people with mental illnesses in Lausanne, Switzerland. The chapter describes a broader shift in contemporary health care, which has entered a ‘post‐asylum’ era due to the de‐institutionalisation of services. Söderström reverses the perspective of mainstream studies in psychiatry by engaging with the experiential aspects of urban space to describe a set of design features that he sees as conducive to a wider ‘landscape of caring,’ which takes into account the emotional and sensorial needs of people with mental health issues. Söderström attends to the subtleties of urban environments, from scale to atmosphere and rhythm, as well as demonstrating that responding to the challenge of designing for people with psychotic troubles opens up the possibility of crafting spaces that are inclusive of all.
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    Qu’est-ce qu’une tradition urbaine ?
    (Baden: Hier+Jetzt, 2015)
    Söderström, Ola 
    Poser la question des traditions urbaines ou du patrimoine immatériel urbain revient à interroger le caractère spécifiquement urbain de certaines pratiques sociales. Dans cette contribution, je pose donc la question générale des ressources à disposition dans les études urbaines pour identifier et définir de telles pratiques. Je retourne pour ce faire aux origines des études urbaines contemporaines (fin XIXe-début XXe) dont c’était l’un des objectifs. Ceci , d’une part, pour contester dans cette tradition théorique l’idée qu’il y aurait un mode de vie urbain universel et transhistorique et, d’autre part, pour souligner que la question des traditions urbaines ouvre, précisément pour cette raison, un chantier de recherches très intéressant et encore assez peu exploré.