Transecting Securityscapes
Dispatches from Cambodia, Iraq, and Mozambique
Title Details
Pages: 184
Illustrations: 4 b&w images
Trim size: 6.000in x 9.000in
Formats
Hardcover
Pub Date: 12/15/2021
ISBN: 9-780-8203-6060-7
List Price: $114.95
Paperback
Pub Date: 12/15/2021
ISBN: 9-780-8203-6061-4
List Price: $21.95
Related Subjects
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society
Transecting Securityscapes
Dispatches from Cambodia, Iraq, and Mozambique
A close examination of place-based approaches to geopolitical conflict and security
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Transecting Securityscapes is an innovative book on the everyday life of security, told via an examination of three sites: Cambodia, the Kurdistan region of Iraq, and Mozambique. The authors’ study of how security is enacted differently in these three sites, taking account of the rich layers of context and culture, enables comparative reflections on diversity and commonality in “securityscapes.”
In Transecting Securityscapes, Till F. Paasche and James D. Sidaway put into practice a diverse and contextual approach to security that contrasts with the aerial, big-picture view taken by many geopolitics scholars. In applying this grounded approach, they develop a method of urban and territorial transects, combined with other methods and modes of encounter. The book draws on a broad range of traditions, but it speaks mostly to political geography, urban studies, and international relations research on geopolitics, stressing the need for ethnographic, embodied, affective, and place-based approaches to conflict. The result is a sustained theoretical critique of abstract research on geopolitical conflict and security—mainstream as well as academic—that pretends to be able to know and analyze conflict “from above.”
—Jessie Clark, assistant professor of Geography at the University of Nevada, Reno
—Matt Sparke, author of Introducing Globalization: Ties, Tensions, and Uneven Integration
—Sara Fregonese, author of War and the City: Urban Geopolitics in Lebanon
—Prasenjit Duara, author of The Crisis of Global Modernity