This book brings fresh insights into how social spaces shape the way we experience and understand security. Chapters unite voices from critical security studies, urban geography, criminology and political science to rethink the link between security and space, from neighbourhood crime to global conflict. By viewing security through a spatial lens, the book uncovers the social, economic and political forces that shape security issues in everyday life offering vital insights for current debates on power, space and security.
Faye Donnelly is a Lecturer in the School of International Relations at the University of St Andrews. Tilman Schwarze is Lecturer in Criminology in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Glasgow.
1. In Pursuit of Interconnections between Security and Space – Faye Donnelly and Tilman SchwarzePart I: Security, Space, and Infrastructures2. The Smart City As Adversarial Vector – Keith Hayward3. The Paradoxes of ‘Security’ and State Space in Singapore’s Housing Development Board Estates – Joe Greener and Laura Naegler4. Precarious Security: From Walled City to Walled Garden – Anna Schliehe and Alistair Fraser5. Of Mazes, Complex Space and Secrecy Games in Security Politics – Elspeth Van VeerenPart II. Security, Space, and Identity6. Defensive Masculinities and Flex Warehouse Security-Utopias at the Urban Edge – Jason Luger7. Proclaiming a State During and After the 1916 Easter Rising – Faye Donnelly8. Ontological Security-Seeking and Regional Imaginaries in Post-1991 Ethiopia – Katharina Newbery9. Space, Ontological (In)security and Urban Redevelopment – Tilman Schwarze 10. Space, Ontological Security and Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Wrapped Reichstag (1995) – Christopher PeysPart III. Security, Space, and Governance11. The Shifting Referents of Space Security – Andrew N. Neal, Lauren Rogers and Roy B. Gardner12. Policing and Spatial Imaginings – Julie Berg and Clifford Shearing13. Depoliticizing Energy Security in the UK’s North Sea – Max Cohen14. Beyond Offshore Finance: Security in the Archipelago of Offshore Spaces – William Vlcek15. Counterterrorism in Rural and Remote Spaces – Nick BrookeAfterword. Security Takes Place: Contrapuntal Reading As Method – Pinar Bilgin
"A multi-case international deep dive into spaces of security, their textures, their organisation and their contestation. Rewarding reading!" Professor Charlotte Heath-Kelly, University of Warwick