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Safety is a hot topic. Especially in those places where large numbers of people spend time, live and work. Places like our cities. Safety is frequently under threat here. Think about terrorist attacks, shootings, robberies, human trafficking and other forms of crime and violence. The coronavirus pandemic clearly has safety implications too.
Needless to say, we implement all kinds of measures to make our cities safer. We take account of our personal safety (terrorism and criminality), but also our digital safety (cyber attacks), health safety (coronavirus measures, access to health care, first aid, vulnerable groups in the city) and safety in terms of infrastructure (safe roads, buildings and bridges). We do everything in our power to make city dwellers feel relatively safe. But this has wide-ranging consequences for society. For example, how does striving for safety impact on privacy and individual liberty? And whose safety takes priority?
We also examine the actions taken against those who create unsafety. What does the police do? What about special investigating officers? Does the public trust them? At the Open Universiteit we research all such matters, providing expert advice, offering ethical and cultural-scientific reflections on safety and urban living, and contributing to legal solutions or psychological interventions.
This program includes three key themes:
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Profiles
Projects
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Imaginaries of the Future City: Envisioning Climate Change and Technological Cityscapes Through Contemporary Speculative Fiction
van Herten, M., Winkler, M., Perez Salgado, P., Adriaensen, B., Jorritsma, J., Dekker, S. & Lechner, L.
1/09/19 → 22/10/20
Project: Research
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Ghosts in the urban sacrifice zone: (De)colonial relationality in Global North imaginaries
Jorritsma, J., Oct 2023, In: Textual Practice. 37, 10, p. 1605-1623 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Cooperating to understand EU cooperation
Bongers, J. M., Hillary, L. & Wieman, G., 20 Jan 2022Research output: Non-textual form › Web publication/site › Academic
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Introduction. Narratives & Climate Change: How to Imagine ‘the Realism of Our Time’?
Winkler, M. F., van Herten, S. M. & Jorritsma, J., Nov 2022, In: Interférences littéraires/Literaire interferenties. 27, 2, p. 1-5 5 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Open Access
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Rethinking repertoires: popular politics in the long nineteenth century (Research School Political History, OPG)
Jasper Bongers (Organiser), Martin Schoups (Organiser) & Dirk Jan Wolffram (Organiser)
21 Mar 2021Activity: Attending or organising an event types › Organising an event › Academic
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Expert @ Dag van de stad
Jasper Bongers (Speaker)
2021Activity: Talk or presentation types › Talk or presentation (not at a conference) › Professional
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Fairs and vice in Utrecht
Jasper Bongers (Speaker)
2021Activity: Talk or presentation types › Talk or presentation (not at a conference) › Academic