Expert evidence and analysis submitted by AtmoCT’s Dr Sara Fregonese and Dr Paul Simpson and based on AtmoCT survey data[1], has directly informed the final report of the Independent Commission on UK Counter‑Terrorism Law, Policy…
The AtmoCT UK team’s new academic publication Big ugly lumps? (Counter)terrorism and the everyday atmospheres of Hostile Vehicle Mitigation is now available in the per reviewed journal CITY. The article focuses on the undramatic and ordinary…
The AtmoCT Team’s new publication Atmospheric geographies of (counter)terrorism is now available in the scientific journal Progress in Human Geography. The conceptual article argues that thinking atmospherically about the spaces where we encounter terror threat and counterterrorism…
Cities and (counter)terrorism: ordinary practices, experiences, and atmospheres. 13-14 June 2024, CY Cergy Paris Université Terrorist attacks against European cities over the last decade have reconfigured ordinary urban life. The proliferation of security logics in…
Katharina Ciax and Simon Runkel’s new paper Geopolitics of Urban Squares: Atmospheric Securitisation and Counterterrorism in Everyday Urban Spaces in Berlin is now available in Geopolitics. The article scrutinizes the concept of ‘affective atmosphere’ at the…
Katharina Ciax und Simon Runkel veröffentlichten ihren Artikel Geopolitics of Urban Squares: Atmospheric Securitisation and Counterterrorism in Everyday Urban Spaces in Berlin im Geopolitics Journal. Der Artikel untersucht das Konzept der “affektiven Atmosphären“ am Breitscheidplatz…
In an era in which terrorism and security have remained high political priorities, what are the impacts of this politics on urban life and its management? In a new article “Crises terroristes et ambiances urbaines…
On 18 October, 2023, Sam Berlin presented project findings about recent developments in British counterterrorist policing methods to the Social Justice, Cities and Citizenship research group at the University of Leeds School of Geography. Based on interviews…
At the 2023 Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers Annual Conference in London, Sara Fregonese and Paul Simpson presented ongoing research on the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings. Based on archival and interview research, their paper…
On 16 May, 2023, Carrie Benjamin presented findings from her fieldwork in Birmingham, UK on hostile vehicle mitigation (HVM) – bollards, planters and other devices designed to securitize public spaces against vehicular attacks – at the…
At the 2023 annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers in Denver, Colorado, the Atmospheres of (counter)terrorism in European cities team hosted the paper session Urban atmospheres of (in)security, disaster, and recovery to bring together…
2023 kehrte die Konferenzreihe Neue Kulturgeographie zurück, eines der Standbeine der Kulturgeographie in Deutschland. Zum diesjährigen Thema Geographies of Overlapping Crises präsentierten zwei Projektmitglieder erste Ergebnisse der Feldforschungen in Deutschland und Großbritannien. Der Beitrag von Katharina Ciax, Urbane Plätze und…
2023 brought the return of the Neue Kulturgeographie conference series, a mainstay of Cultural Geography in Germany. For this year’s theme, Geographies of Overlapping Crises, two project members presented early results from fieldwork in Germany and the UK. Katharina…
On 14 December 2022, Dr Damien Masson, PI for the French team, appeared on the France Culture podcast Les Enjeux Territoriaux to speak about the local and urban consequences of terrorist attacks, which he discussed…
Atmospheres of (counter)terrorism in European cities PI Dr Sara Fregonese will be giving a keynote lecture on Thursday 3 November at Geography Days, a two-day conference organised by Tampere University and the Geographical Society of…
AAG 2023 Denver, Colorado – March 23rd-27th Session organisers: Paul Simpson (University of Plymouth), Sara Fregonese (University of Birmingham), Damien Masson (CY Cergy Paris University), Simon Runkel (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena), Hélène Heurtel (L’Institut Paris Region),…
While fieldwork is still underway, the UK team presented preliminary results at two major international conferences this summer. At the Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers Annual Conference 2022 in Newcastle, UK, Sam Berlin spoke…
On 27 April, our postdoctoral researcher Carrie Benjamin gave a seminar titled ‘Everyday atmospheres of (counter)terrorism in Birmingham’. The presentation was part of the University of Birmingham Anthro Talks seminar series hosted by the Department…
On April 5th, our doctoral researcher Katharina Ciax will give a seminar on methodologies of researching everyday perceptions in urban spaces at the Urban Terrorism in Europe (2004-19): Remembering, Imagining, and Anticipating Violence project at the…
A new open-access paper from Atmospheres of (counter)terrorism in European Cities PI Sara Fregonese (Birmingham) and advisory board member Sunčana Laketa (Neuchâtel) has just been published in the journal Political Geography. Based on fieldwork conducted…
In December our doctoral research fellow Katharina Ciax presented the AtmoCT project as well as preliminary findings of her field research in Berlin at the “City, Public Space & Body” international conference, organized by the…
Internationales Forschungsteam untersucht, wie Terrorismus die Atmosphäre in europäischen Städten verändert Wie erleben die Bewohnerinnen und Bewohner europäischer Städte die Bedrohung durch Terrorismus? Wie verändern Anti-Terrormaßnahmen ihre Gefühle und Stimmungen und welche Auswirkungen hat das…
Associate Professor of Human Geography Dr Paul Simpson will be involved in a new £1.1million research collaboration A new European research project starting in January 2021 aims to provide an unprecedented international comparison of how…
“The project includes a large-scale national survey assessing public perceptions of terror threats and attitudes to counterterrorism measures among people living in the UK, France, and Germany.” The terrorist attacks in Nice’s Basilica of Notre-Dame…