Seda Gürses and Femke Snelting talking at a seminar of Deradicalizing the City

Seda Gürses and Femke Snelting will be speaking at a seminar of Deradicalizing the City on Wednesday the 22nd of June (15:00-17:00h) in Leuven. The seminar series examines how the current ‘war on terror’ and the policies of deradicalization impact and actively reconfigure institutional discourses and practices on urban insecurity, and whether and how they fundamentally reshape notions of belonging and the experience of in/security among the residents of these neighbourhoods. The topic of the talk is Seda and Femke their work with The Institute for Technology in the Public Interest (TITiPI) (see also Project Collaborations and Funding). TITiPI generates currently inexistant vocabularies, methodologies and imaginaries for holding accountable tech companies and public institutions that have now become co-responsible for providing healthcare and education but also border management, targeted surveillance and policing. They work with communities to articulate, activate and re-imagine how the "Digital Transformation" impacts the capacity of these institutions to adequately serve their mandate in different geographies and power relations.

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