Security Blurs

The Politics of Plural Security Provision

Tessa Diphoorn, Erella Grassiani

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Routledge
11 December 2018

Society & culture: general; Social & cultural anthropology; Crime & criminology; Politics & government; Warfare & defence

Series: Routledge Studies in Anthropology

Security Blurs makes an important contribution to anthropological work on security. It introduces the notion of “security blurs” to analyse manifestations of security that are visible and identifi able, yet constructed and made up of a myriad and overlapping set of actors, roles, motivations, values, practices, ideas, materialities and power dynamics in their inception and performance. The chapters address the entanglements and overlaps between a variety of state and non-state security providers, from the police and the military to vigilantes, community organisations and private security companies. The contributors offer rich ethnographic studies of everyday security practices across a range of cultural contexts and reveal the impact on the lives of ordinary citizens. This book presents a new anthropological approach to security by explicitly addressing the overlap and entanglement of the practices and discourses of state and non-state security providers, and the associated forms of cooperation and confl ict that permit an analysis of these actors’ activities as increasingly “blurred”.

Edited by: Tessa Diphoorn, Erella Grassiani
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780815356769
ISBN 10: 0815356765
Series: Routledge Studies in Anthropology
Pages: 16
Publication Date: 11 December 2018
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Tessa Diphoorn is Assistant Professor in the Department of Cultural Anthropology at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. Erella Grassiani is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.