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Stephanie Simon is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Politics and the Transnational Configurations, Conflict and Governance' research group of the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR) at the University of Amsterdam.

She received her doctorate in Human Geography at the University of Kentucky in 2010

Transnational Configurations, Conflict and Governance

RESEARCH AREAS

European Security Culture
For more information about this NWO-funded VIDI project led by prof. dr. Marieke de Goede please visit the project website:


European Security Culture project website

Post 9/11 Urban Geographies of Security

The attacks of 11 September 2001 have had wide-ranging implications in the US for citizens, non-citizens, foreign policy, governmental structure, and everyday life.  The spectacular and devastating nature of the attack in New York City has impacted the ways in which US cities conceive of, experience, and practice security. In this ongoing research focused on New York City, I frame a "pre" and "post" 9/11 urban spatiality of threat and security.  I investigate the ways in which imaginative threat discourses are woven into everyday city spaces through law, design, policing, cultural productions, affect, and performance. This research contributes empirical and theoretical work on post 9/11 urban spatiality and engages with geographic and critical security studies research on urban socio-spatial control and prosaic and preemptive security practice.

Papers in preparation:

• Times Square and the "fortress city that didn't come to be"
• "This time, the scene was real." Cinemascapes of "post 9/11" New York City
• Picturing the secure city: The security encounter,the photographer, and public space

Publications

England, Marcia and Stephanie Simon. 2010. Scary cities: Urban geographies of fear, difference, and belonging. Social and Cultural Geography 11(3): 201-207.

Simon, Stephanie. 2009. "If you raised a boy in a pink room...?" Thoughts on teaching Geography and Gender. Journal of Geography 108(1): 14-20.

Martin, Lauren and Stephanie Simon. 2008. A formula for disaster: The Department of Homeland Security's virtual ontology. Space and Polity 12(3): 281-296.

Belcher, Oliver, Lauren Martin, Anna Secor, Stephanie Simon, and Tommy Wilson. 2008. Everywhere and nowhere: The exception and the topological challenge to geography. Antipode 40(4): 499-503.