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PurposeCyber resilience has emerged as an approach for seaports to deal with cyberattacks; it emphasizes ports’ ability to prepare for an attack and to keep operating and recover quickly. However, little research has been undertaken on the challenges of governing cyber risks in seaports. This study aims to address this gap.Design/methodology/approachGoverning cyber resilience is shaped by distributed responsibilities, uncertainties and ambiguities. The authors use this conceptualization to explore the governance of cyber risks in seaports, taking the Port of Rotterdam as a case study and analyzing semistructured interviews with stakeholders, participatory observation and policy documents and legislation.FindingsThe authors found that many strategies for governing cyber risks remain dedicated to protecting computer systems against cyberattacks. Nevertheless, port stakeholders have also developed strategies in anticipation of disruptions. However, these strategies appear informal and uncoordinated due to a lack of information exchange, insufficient knowledge regarding cyber risks and disagreement about how to make the Port of Rotterdam cyber resilient. What mainly hampers the cyber resilience of the port is the lack of a comprehensive regulatory framework and economic incentives. The authors conclude that resilience is merely an ideal at the Port of Rotterdam, meaning related governance strategies remain incremental and await institutionalization.Originality/valueThis paper offers insights into the cyber resilience of critical socio-technical systems, which have been underexposed in cyber resilience debates, but, when exploited, can manifest in large-scale disruptions.

Urban Heritage in Divided Cities explores the role of contested urban heritage in mediating, subverting and overcoming sociopolitical conflict in divided cities. Investigating various examples of transformations of urban heritage around the world, the book analyses the spatial, social and political causes behind them, as well as the consequences for the division and reunification of cities during both wartime and peacetime conflicts. Contributors to the volume define urban heritage in a broad sense, as tangible elements of the city, such as ruins, remains of border architecture, traces of violence in public space, and memorials, as well as intangible elements like urban voids, everyday rituals, place names and other forms of spatial discourse. Addressing both historic and contemporary cases from a wide range of academic disciplines, contributors to the book investigate the role of urban heritage in divided cities in Africa, Asia, North America, Europe and the Middle East. Shifting focus from the notion of urban heritage as a fixed and static legacy of the past, the volume demonstrates that the concept is a dynamic and transformable entity that plays an active role in inquiring, critiquing, subverting, and transforming the present. Urban Heritage in Divided Cities will be of great interest to academics, researchers and students in the fields of cultural studies, sociology, the political sciences, history, human geography, urban design and planning, architecture, archaeology, ethnology and anthropology. The book should also be essential reading for professionals who are involved in governing, planning, designing and transforming urban heritage around the world.

Analyzing football as a cultural practice, this book investigates the connection between the sport and its built environment. Four thematic sections bring together an international multi-disciplinary range of perspectives with particular focus on the stadium. Examples from architectural design, media studies and archaeology are used while studying advertising, economics, migration, fandom, local identities, emotions, gender, and the sociology of space. Texts and case-studies build up this useful book for lecturers and researchers in sociology, cultural studies, geography, architecture, sport and environment. \"Through a wonderfully eclectic collection of essays, the stadium and its meanings, influences and resonances are the central subject of this carefully considered and well thought book.\" – Geografiska Annaler Introduction: Football, Space and the Built Environment Sybille Frank & Silke Steets Part 1: The Politics of Representation and Design 1. The New European Stadium Anthony King 2. \"Show Yourself to the People!: Ancient Stadia, Politics and Society Bettina Kratzmüller 3. Challenging the Stadium: Watching Sport Events in Public Hans-Jürgen Schulke Part 2: Architecture and Media 4. The Stadium as a Cash Machine Michael Zinganel 5. The Mirror Stage in the Stadium: Media Spaces of Television and Architecture Angelika Schnell 6. Killing Sports Fields: The Amahora Stadium Complex in Kigali, Rwanda Bruno Arich-Gerz Part 3: When Global Flows Meet Local Cultures 7 . Global Players and the Stadium: Migration and Borders in Professional Football Christian Banse 8. Going to the Match: The Transformation of the Match-day Routine at Manchester City FC Tim Edensor and Steve Millington 9. \"Come Home\": The Stadium, Locality and the Community at FC United of Manchester Adam Brown Part 4: Gender and Space 10. Sport, Football and Masculine Identity: The Stadium as a Window onto Gender Construction Christian Bromberger 11. Producting Gender-normative Spaces in U.S. Women's Professional Soccer Tiffany Muller Myrdahl 12. Football Under Cover in Tehran's Ararat Stadium Corinna Assmann and Silke Gülker Part 5: Emotions and the Body 13. Emotions in Sports Stadia Mike S. Schäfer & Jochen Roose 14. Heroes, Myths and Magic Moments: Religious Elements on the Sacred Ground Gunter Gebauer 15. ‘Beckhamania’: Promoting Post-modern Celebrities Beyond the Stadium Johannes John 16. Conclusion: The Stadium – Lense and Refuge Sybille Frank and Silke Steets Sybille Frank and Silke Steets are sociologists working at the Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany

Seaports, infrastructural nodes in global supply chains and production processes, are vulnerable to flood risks: they are crisis-prone critical infrastructure (CI) systems. However, the governance of their flood resilience involves many different private and public actors in a complex institutional environment and there is no scholarly consensus about how resilience can be successfully governed. We investigate the governance of flood resilience at the Port of Rotterdam (PoR) from an institutional perspective, by studying institutional arrangements for flood resilience within and across vertical, horizontal and territorial dimensions to elucidate the strengths and ongoing challenges of shaping the port’s flood resilience. We conducted semi-structured expert interviews (n = 17) and an analysis of policy documents and legislation (n = 33) relating to flood risk management and CI protection. We find that the institutional design for flood resilience in the Netherlands consists of a complex matrix of responsibilities, capacities and plans. While coordination is visible in the shared visions and strategies for flood resilience developed at different policy levels and domains, we find fragmentation and persisting institutional challenges, including siloed governance approaches, knowledge gaps and blurred distribution of responsibilities; these are significant barriers to enhancing flood resilience for CIs and port–city relationships.

Kann »Stadt« ein Gegenstand soziologischer Analysen und Theoriebildung sein? Über diese Frage streitet derzeit die deutschsprachige Stadtsoziologie. Der vorliegende Beitrag strukturiert diese Debatte und plädiert dafür, den ihr zugrunde liegenden Perspektivenstreit zwischen einem kritischen und einem Wissens- und kulturbasierten stadtsoziologischen Ansatz für allgemein soziologische Fragen zu öffnen. Can »city« be a subject of sociological analyses and theory-building? This paper introduces an ongoing debate in German urban sociology that revolves around this question. After structuring the competing concepts of a critical and a knowledge-based sociological perspective on cities, this paper proposes shifting the focus towards the fundamental sociological questions underlying this debate.

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