1st Edition

Security, Ethnography and Discourse Transdisciplinary Encounters

Edited By Emma Mc Cluskey, Constadina Charalambous Copyright 2022
222 Pages 103 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

222 Pages 103 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

222 Pages 103 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This interdisciplinary book analyses different contexts where security concerns have an impact on institutional or everyday practices and routines in the lives of ordinary people. Creating a dialogue between the fields of International Relations, Peace and Conflict Studies, Sociolinguistics, Education and Anthropology, this book addresses core themes associated with conflict and security –... Read more

Introduction

Constadina Charalambous and Emma Mc Cluskey

1. Researching (in)security as a lived experience: setting the foundations for transdisciplinary dialogue

Emma Mc Cluskey, Ben Rampton, and Constadina Charalambous

Part I: Conflict, (in)security, and everyday peace

2. Everyday Peace Disruption in deeply-divided societies: Is it really peace?

Roger Mac Ginty

3. A linguistic ethnography of peace-building through language education in Cyprus

Constadina Charalambous, Panayiota Charalambous, and Ben Rampton

4. Silence as practices of (in)security in post-Yugoslav region

Renata Summa and Milan Puh

5. Breaking Taboos: The Making of Xenophobia as Acceptable in Sweden

Emma Mc Cluskey

Part II: Managing suspicion and surveillance in everyday life

6. Embodying the US Security State: Surveilling Intimate Spaces to Counter Violent Extremism

Nicole Nguyen

7. Goffman and the everyday experience of surveillance

Ben Rampton and Louise Eley

8. Auditor Design and Accountability in Encounters between Citizens and the Police

Rodney H. Jones

Afterword: Reflexive encounters when speaking across bounded knowledges

Rebekka Friedman

Biography

Emma Mc Cluskey is a Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Westminster, UK.

Constadina Charalambous is Assistant Professor of Language Education & Literacy at the European University Cyprus.

'Security, Ethnography, Discourse: Transdisciplinary Encounters is a captivating academic adventure that is both methodologically refreshing and empirically pioneering...this book is bound to inspire, dissect and reassemble what may well become a new terrain of scholarly activity.'--Karel Arnaut, Associate Professor and Research Coordinator at the Interculturalism, Migration and Minorities Research Centre (IMMRC), Leuven University, Belgium 

'International Relations scholars and sociolinguists gather to address big issues in small places. Sets a new standard for microsociological security studies.'--Iver Neumann, Director of the Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Norway