Critical Urban Geography: Crowd Sentiment Analysis

Duration: 2023–2024

Project Management: Jun.-Prof. Simon Runkel

Funding: own funds, in conjunction with DFG ("Atmospheres of (Counter-)Terror")

Research focus: Security and Freedom

Content

Throughout history, crowd control and management have been issues in the governance of social and biological life. Crowd control relies on a wide range of techniques, such as the use of force to control them, social engineering to shape them, spatial management to disperse, move or evacuate them, and/or atmotechnical interventions to selectively target, disrupt or manipulate them. The project focuses on different modes, technologies and logics underlying the spatial management of crowds: containment and control, governance and management, (self-)leadership and surveillance.