1st Edition
The Politics of Protection Sites of Insecurity and Political Agency
Preface
Chapter 1. Agency and The Politics of Protection: Implications for Security Studies
Jef Huysmans
Chapter 2. Privatizing the Politics of Protection: Military Companies and the Definition of Security Concerns
Anna Leander
Chapter 3. Privatisation, Globalisation, and the Politics of Protection in South AfricaRita Abrahamsen and Michael C. Williams
Chapter 4. Taking Rights, Mediating Wrongs: Disagreements over the Political Agency of Non-Status Refugees.
Peter Nyers
Chapter 5. Resisting Sovereign Power: Camps In-between Exception and Dissent.
Raffaela Puggioni
Chapter 6. Protection: security, territory and population.
Didier Bigo
Chapter 7. "Civilizing" the Balkans, Protecting Europe: the International Politics of Reconstruction in Bosnia and Kosovo
Alexandra Gheciu
Chapter 8. The Judicialisation of Armed Conflict: transforming the 21st Century
Elspeth Guild
Chapter 9. The Limits of Agency in Times of Emergency
Vivienne Jabri
Chapter 10. Sovereignty, International Security and the Regulation of Armed Conflict: the Possibilities of Political AgencyNeil Walker
Chapter 11. Do we need (to protect) nature?
Andrew Dobson
Chapter 12. On the Protection of Nature and the Nature of Protection
R.B.J. Walker
Biography
Jef Huysmans is Lecturer in Government and Politics at The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK. Andrew Dobson is Professor and Director of Research at the Department of Politics and Government at The Open University. Raia Prokhovnik is Senior Lecturer in Government and Politics, also at The Open University.
'This collection of essays provides a meeting point for theorists and practitioners to discuss the current controversies surrounding security and protection.'
- Alistair D. B. Cook , The University of Melbourne
