Security and Everyday Life

Description

This volume examines how security has recently (re-)emerged as the dominant ordering principle of social life. The first part addresses how security is being conceived and reconceived in light of developments that have reconfigured the nation-state, privacy, mobilities, and the rules governing those who assert dangers and risks. The second part considers the application of new methods and practices and how these in turn help create a new environment that is increasingly uncertain for people. Through detailed case studies, the chapters trace various genealogies of security to understand the cultural logics through which the security imperative has come to dominate across spheres of social life worldwide. This volume will interest criminologists, sociologists, anthropologists, and those working within security studies.

Contents

Introduction: Security Meta-Framing: A Cultural Logic of an Ordering Practice Vida Bajc Public Spaces and Collective Activities 1. "No Joking!" Mark Salter 2. Security Meta-framing of Collective Activity in Public Spaces: The Pope John Paul II in the Holy City Vida Bajc Struggle and Resistance 3. When the Israeli State of Exception Meets the Exception: The Case of Tali Fahima Liora Sion 4. Rethinking National Security Policies and Practices in Transnational Contexts: Border Resistance Kathleen Staudt Law, Citizenship, and the State 5. A Note on Security Modulation Willem de Lint 6. Before the Law: Creeping Lawlessness in Canadian National Security Reem Bahdi 7. The Pre-emptive Mode of Regulation: Terrorism, Law, and Security Gabe Mythen Global Agendas, Local Transformations 8. Re/Building the E.U.: Governing through Counterterrorism Sirpa Virta 9. Transnational Media Corporations (TNMCs) and National Culture as a Security Concern in China Jiang Fei and Huang Kuo 10. Security Metamorphosis in Latin America Nelson Arteaga Botello Conclusion: Security and Everyday Life Willem de Lint

Author Bio

Vida Bajc is completing her doctorate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania.

Willem de Lint is Professor of Criminal Justice at Flinders Law School, Flinders University of South Australia.

Related Subjects

1. Social & Cultural Anthropology
2. Security Studies - Pol & Intl Relns
3. Criminology
4. Political Sociology