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‘Pour votre tranquillité’: Ambiance, atmosphere, and surveillance

Peter Adey, +5 more
- 01 Oct 2013 - 
- Vol. 49, Iss: 49, pp 299-309
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In this paper, the authors explored the providence of considering atmospheres and ambiances for the examination of surveillance through the case study of two major railway stations in Britain and France.
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This article is published in Geoforum.The article was published on 2013-10-01 and is currently open access. It has received 96 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Public space.

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Frequently Asked Questions (6)
Q1. What contributions have the authors mentioned in the paper "”pour votre tranquillité”: ambiance, atmosphere, and surveillance" ?

This is a paper concerned with security, surveillance and notions of atmosphere and ambience. This paper explores the providence of considering atmospheres and ambiances for the examination of surveillance through the case study of two major railway stations in Britain and France. The paper proffers some methods and techniques for the further exploration of atmospheres/ambiances of security. 

As such, further work is required in thinking about how the authors might be able to write in some kind of ‘ ambiant ’ or ‘ atmospheric ’ way. 

The authors see the predominance of ‘panic’, ‘fear’, ‘terror’ and ‘neurosis’ (Füredi, 2005; De Goede and Randalls, 2009; Isin, 2004) as key affective expressive conditions of securitised public space. 

For the UK-based academics on their research team this led to both a feeling of liberation, but also a not-always comfortable feeling during the research process about where things may (or more so may not) get to, especially as the authors came to leaving the field and thinking about what the authors had ultimately ‘produced’ as well as ‘collected’. 

The authors employed and experimentedwith a range of visual, audio and observational techniques, including audio transects, static and mobile video recording, time-lapse photograph and multi-angle filming. 

Allen’s ambient power supposes a particular ‘‘character of an urban setting—a particular atmosphere, a specific mood, a certain feeling—that affects how the authors experience it and which, in turn, seeks to induce certain stances which the authors might otherwise have chosen not to adopt’’ (2006: 445).