Times of Security Ethnographies of Fear, Protest and the Future [Paperback]

In the current world disorder, security is on everyones lips. But what issecurity from a cross-cultural perspective? How is it imagined and experienced by people on the ground? Crucially, what visions of the future are at stake in peoples potentially divergent concerns with security: what, and when, is the time of security? Exploring diverse notions and experiences of time involved in security practices across the globe, this volume brings together a selection of international scholars who conduct ethnographic research in a broad ambit of securitized contexts  from the experience of Palestinian detainees in Israel or forms of popular violence in Bolivia, to efforts to normalize social relations in post-conflict Yugoslavia and ways of imagining threat in left-radical protest movements in Northern Europe. Interrogating recent debates about the role of securitization in contemporary politics, the book paves the way for novel forms of security analysis at the crossroads between anthropology and political science, focusing on the comparative study of the temporalities of securitization in a multi-polar world. Offering a pioneering synthesis, the book will be of interest not only to anthropologists, but also to students and scholars in political science and the growing field of Security Studies in International Relations.

Foreword and Acknowledgments.  Introduction: Times of Security  Morten Axel Pedersen and Martin Holbraad  Defining Security in Late Liberalism: A Comment on Pedersen and Holbraad  Elizabeth A. Povinelli  1. Security Is a Collective Body: Intersecting Times of Security in the Copenhagen Climate Summit  Stine Kr?ijer  2. Captured With Their Hands in the Dough : Insecurity, Safety-Seeking and Securitization in El Alto, Bolivia  Helene Ris?r  3. Readings of Time: Of Coca, Presenl3f