Rhetorics of Insecurity

Zeynep Gambetti is Associate Professor of Political Theory at Bogaziçi University, Istanbul.Marcial Godoy-Anativia is Associate Director of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics at New York University, where he serves as co-editor of its online journal e-misférica.

• ContentsAcknowledgments ixIntroduction. States of (In)security: Coming to Terms with an Erratic Terrain 1Zeynep Gambetti and Marcial Godoy-Anativia1 Free in the Forest: Popular Neoliberalism and the Aftermath of War in the US Pacific Northwest 20Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing2 Autochthony, Citizenship, and (In)security: New Turns in the Politics of Belonging in Africa and Elsewhere 40Peter Geschiere3 Congolite: Elections and the Politics of Autochthony in the Democratic Republic of the Congo 69Stephen Jackson4 Securing "Security" amid Neoliberal Restructuring:Civil Society and Volunteerism in Post-1990 Turkey 93Yasemin Ipek Can5 "I'm No Terrorist, I'm a Kurd": Societal Violence, the State, and the Neoliberal Order 125Zeynep Gambetti6 Public-Private Partnerships in the Industry of Insecurity 153Nandini SundarNYUP Gambetti Godoy-Anativia Final.indd 7 6/12/13 10:39 AMviii Contents7 Does Globalization Breed Ethnic Violence? 175Georgi M. Derluguian8 Guarded (In)visibility: Violencias and the Labors of Paralegality in the Era of Collapse 196Rossana Reguillo Cruz9 The Securitarian Society of the Spectacle 213Nicholas De GenovaContributors 243Index 247

"The contributors to this volume disassemble some familiar contemporary binaries to reveal the contradictions and surprising continuities that comprise them. The result is a powerful and convincing collection that integrates diverse phenomena(in)security, neoliberalism, citizenship, law, violencethat too often are understood in isolation. Historical, ethnographic, and comparative, the collection will appeal to scholars and students in a variety of disciplines, and is sure to become a standard reference in critical studies of security." - Daniel M. Goldstein,author of Outlawed: Between Security and Rights in a Bolivian City "This book explains many mysterious things: like the strange, increasingly violent permutations of the state as it responds to mafias, ethnicity, and & NGOs; and the puzzling emptying out and uncanny revivification of law, freedom, democracy, and identity. Basically, what is really going on in the world today. It is sobering, spirited, and necessary, connecting places and ideas well need to think with and beyond to get out of here alive." - Diane M. Nelson,author of Reckoning: The Ends of War in Guatemala "Cumulative decades of research come together in Rhetorics of Insecurity to provide readers with a wide-ranging collection of ethnographies, historical analyses, political theories, and discursive critiques. As many scholars who study neoliberalism will attest, there is an academic tendency to homogenize its effects, and the breadth of this text is one of its key strengths. The authors all provide compelling and unique perspectives, and each essay is well-written." (International Journal of Communications)