Security and Everyday Life

Edited by Vida Bajc, Willem de Lint

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About the Book

This volume examines how security has recently (re-)emerged as the dominant ordering principle of social life. The first part addresses how security is being conceived and reconceived in light of developments that have reconfigured the nation-state, privacy, mobilities, and the rules governing those who assert dangers and risks. The second part considers the application of new methods and practices and how these in turn help create a new environment that is increasingly uncertain for people. Through detailed case studies, the chapters trace various genealogies of security to understand the cultural logics through which the security imperative has come to dominate across spheres of social life worldwide. This volume will interest criminologists, sociologists, anthropologists, and those working within security studies.

About the Author(s)

Vida Bajc is completing her doctorate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania.

Willem de Lint is Associate Professor and Head at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Windsor in Canada.