‘Everything-old-is-new-again’: private urban security governance responses to new harmscapes

Berg, J. and Shearing, C. (2024) ‘Everything-old-is-new-again’: private urban security governance responses to new harmscapes. Urban Studies, (doi: 10.1177/00420980241231240) (Early Online Publication)

Abstract

This article reflects on the proliferation of novel forms of private urban security governance assemblages, specifically the roles of private auspices and providers in responding to contemporary climate-related socio-material harmscapes. The authors use the lens of climatic harms and associated discursive shifts in understandings of the relationship between humans and ‘nature’ to draw attention to gating adaptations, assemblages of powers and capacities being mobilised in response to emerging harmscapes, the logics and technologies underpinning these developments, the roles of established security agents and novel security professionals and the use of resilience as a conceptual framing. These security governance ventures are conceived of as mutating private urban security governance vestiges from PUSG 1.0 to PUSG 2.0 and in this regard, ‘climate gating’ is used as an emblematic example in exploring PUSG 2.0.

• Item Type: Articles
• Status: Early Online Publication
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Berg, Dr Julie and Shearing, Professor Clifford
• Authors: Berg, J., and Shearing, C.
• College/School: College of Social Sciences > School of Social and Political Sciences; College of Social Sciences > School of Social and Political Sciences > Sociology Anthropology and Applied Social Sciences
• Journal Name: Urban Studies
• Publisher: SAGE Publications
• ISSN: 0042-0980
• ISSN (Online): 1360-063X
• Published Online: 25 March 2024
• Copyright Holders: Copyright © Urban Studies Journal Limited 2024
• First Published: First published in Urban Studies 2024
• Publisher Policy: Reproduced under a Creative Commons license