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The Mobility-Security Nexus and the Making of Order: An Interdisciplinary and Historicizing Intervention book cover

1st Edition

The Mobility-Security Nexus and the Making of Order An Interdisciplinary and Historicizing Intervention

Edited By Heidi Hein-Kircher, Werner Distler Copyright 2023
322 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

322 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

322 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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The book explores the complex, multi-directional connections of the "mobility/security nexus" in the re-ordering of states, empires, and markets in historical perspective. Contributing to a vivid academic debate, the book offers in-depth studies on how mobility and security interplay in the emergence of order beyond the modern state. While mobilities studies, migration studies and critical... Read more

Part I: Introduction

1. Historizing the Mobility/Security Nexus: Introductory Remarks

Heidi Hein-Kircher/Werner Distler

Part II: Conceptual and Theoretical Reflections

2. The Security/Mobility Nexus as an Analytical Lens: The Cases of Counterterrorism and Infrastructure

Matthias Leese/Steff Wittendorf

3. Ordering Movement and Mobilizing Security: On the Production of ‘Critical Infrastructure’

Amina Nolte

4. Thresholds of Threat in (Historical) Security Cultures: Overcoming the Good-Versus-Bad Mobilities Dichotomy

Tobias Bruns

Part III: Case Studies

Section 1: (Re)Ordering States and Societies

5. Securitization as a Driving Force for Political Mobilization of National Movements

Heidi Hein-Kircher

6. State Order, Mobility, and Policing in the Trust Territory of New Guinea. Patrolling the ‘Periphery’

Werner Distler

7. Spatial (Im)Mobility as a Threat to Social Mobility: Roma in the Peripheries of Rome and the NIMBY Politics of campi nomadi

Ana Ivasiuc

Section 2: (Re)Ordering Empires

8. Struggles with Mass-Migrations, National- and State-Interests in the Late Habsburg Empire: Security through Mobility or against Mobility?

Szilveszter Csernus-Lukács

9. Nineteenth-Century Labor Migration and Fear of Epidemics in the British Colony of Mauritius (c. 1834-1910): A Danger to Public Health?

Andrea Wiegeshoff

10. Securing the Flows of Oil in a Transottoman Context: Baku’s Oil, Infrastructures of Transportation, and Mendeleev as an Imperial Expert of Securitization (1850–1918)

Stefan Rohdewald

Section 3: (Re)Ordering Markets

11. Securitization Practices of Traveling Merchants and Mercenaries (14th-17th century)

Stefanie Rüther

12. Anti-Nuclear Activism, the State, and the Energy Market in the Federal Republic of Germany: Mobilizing Power

Sascha Brünig

13. ‘Critical’ Financial Infrastructures and the Securitization of Calculative Micro-processes

Andreas Langenohl

Part IV: Concluding Remarks

14. Security, Mobility, and the Colonial Connection: Concluding Remarks

Benedikt Stuchtey

Biography

Werner Distler is a political scientist, with a focus on peace and conflict studies. He works as researcher at the Center for Conflict Studies and the Collaborative Research Center "Dynamics of Security" at Marburg University, Germany.

Heidi Hein-Kircher is a historian and the head of the Department Academic Forum at Herder-Institute on Historical Research on East Central Europe.

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