Hille Koskela, PhD Senior Lecturer Department of Geography P.O. Box 64 00014 University of Helsinki Finland e-mail: hille.koskela@helsinki.fi suomeksi
Research interests Educational background Editorial board memberships Publications in English

Research interests:

• urban security politics
• theories of urban space, control and power
• surveillance studies
• video surveillance and the changing nature of urban space
• the emotional experience of being watched
• surveillance tapes in the media
• the politics of looking
• Internet webcams
• cultural criminology and the regulation of subcultures
• urban signs and everyday semiotics
• geographies of gender
• fear of violence and women’s use of space
• street prostitution and sexual harassment
• multiculturalism

 
Educational background:


PhD, planning geography, Department of Geography, University of Helsinki, 1999

Licentiate, planning geography, Department of Geography, University of Helsinki, 1994

A, planning geography, Department of Geography, University of Helsinki, 1991

Full CV available on request

Editorial board memberships

ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies
http://www.acme-journal.org/

Crime, Media, Culture
http://cmc.sagepub.com/

Social & Cultural Geography
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/14649365.asp

Surveillance and Society
http://www.surveillance-and-society.org/

Publications in English:

Koskela, Hille (2006). The other side of surveillance. Webcams, power and agency. In D. Lyon (ed.) Theorizing Surveillance: The Panopticon and Beyond, 163–181. Willan Publishing, Cullompton.

Koskela, Hille (2005). Urban space in plural: elastic, tamed, suppressed. In J. Seager and L. Nelson (eds.) A Companion to Feminist Geography, 257–270. Blackwell, Oxford.

Koskela, Hille and Tani, Sirpa (2005). ‘Sold out!’ Women’s practices of resistance against prostitution related sexual harassment. Women’s Studies International Forum, 28:5, 418–429.

Koskela, Hille (2004). Webcams, TV shows and mobile phones. Empowering exhibitionism. Surveillance and Society, 2:2/3, 199–215.
http://www.surveillance-and-society.org/articles2(2)/webcams.pdf

Koskela, Hille (2004). The gendered fear of violence, surveillance and urban space. Ehituskunst – Estonian Architectural Review, 39/40 2004, 49–56.

Koskela, Hille (2003). ”Cam Era” – the contemporary urban Panopticon. Surveillance and Society, 1, 292-313. http://www.surveillance-and-society.org/articles1(3)/camera.pdf

Koskela, Hille (2003). ‘In visible city’. Insecurity, gender, and power relations in urban space. In J. Öhman and K. Simonsen (eds.). Voices from the North. New Trends in Nordic Human Geography. Ashgate, Aldershot.

Koskela, Hille (2002). Video surveillance, gender and the safety of public urban space: “Peeping Tom” goes high tech? Urban Geography, 23:3, 257–278.

Koskela, Hille (2002). Urban security policies: ‘cultures of tolerance’ versus ‘cultures of prejudice’. Conference Proceedings of the European Union Crime Prevention Network. Conclusions of the EUCPN ‘Good practice’ -conference in Aalborg, Denmark, 7th – 8th October 2002. 

Koskela, Hille (2001). Video surveillance and the changing nature of urban space. In D. Holmes (ed.). Virtual globalisation: virtual spaces/tourist spaces, 134–156. Routledge, London.

Koskela, Hille & Pain, Rachel (2000). Revisiting fear and place: women's fear of attack and the built environment. Geoforum, 31, 269–280. 

Koskela, Hille (2000). ‘The Gaze without Eyes’. Video surveillance and the changing nature of urban space. Progress in Human Geography, 24:2, 243–265. 

Koskela, Hille (1999). Fear, Control and Space: Geographies of Gender, Fear of Violence, and Video Surveillance. Publications of the Department of Geography, A 137, University of Helsinki. (PhD thesis)

Koskela, Hille (1999). ‘Gendered Exclusions’ Women’s fear of violence and changing relations to space. Geografiska Annaler , 81B:2, 111–124. 

Koskela, Hille (1999). Valvontakamera, kuva ja katsoja(t). Teoksessa Näkyvän taa. Helsinkiläistä kaupunkitutkimusta. / Övervakningskameror, bilder och betraktare. I verket Bortom det synliga. Helsingforsisk stadsforskning. / The surveillance camera; its image and its viewer(s). In Beyond the visible. Urban research in Helsinki. Helsingin kaupungin tietokeskus. 

Koskela, Hille (1997). ‘Bold Walk and Breakings’. Women’s spatial confidence versus fear of violence. Gender, Place and Culture, 4:3, 301–319.