SSC Seminar Series: Gemma Galdon Clavell

Gemma Galdon Clavell

PhD Candidate

Institut de Govern I Politiques Publiques

Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB)

“Surveillance in the global city: local processes, global trends and uncritical policy borrowing (the case of Barcelona)”

Thursday, October 28^th

12:30pm to 1:30pm

Mackintosh-Corry Hall, Room D411

The talk will address the need to understand surveillance in the broader context of urban policy and urban regimes.By looking at the evolution of the legal framework, the articulation of the demands for CCTV, the expectations of politicians and policy-makers and the reasons given to approve or reject petitions to install surveillance cameras in Barcelona's public space,it will expose the imaginaries that wrap up the adoption of surveillance in public space as a policy alternative. The resulting picture, wherelocal processes interact with global trends against the backdrop of complex policy processes, will highlight the need to explore more thoroughly the role played by global pressures in the process of policy modeling -and the research problems raised by this approach.

Everyone welcome!