Afterthoughts. Security, anti-security, positive security / Ian Loader. Positive security. A theoretical framework / Marc Schuilenburg and Ronald van Steden -- Thinking about sustainable security. Metaphors, paradoxes and ironies / Adam Crawford -- Growing sanguine about the weeds. Gardening and security revisted / Simon Hallsworth and David James -- Power and servility. An experiment in the ethics of security and counter-security / Phil Carney and Deanna Dadusc -- Security in support of safety and community. Thoughts from New York / Karen Franck -- Your friendly gasoline station. On habitual space / Oskar Verkaaik -- Not 'Fortress Los Angeles'. Design, and management of privately owned public spaces in New York City / Te-Sheng Huang -- Fluid security? Home, care and belonging in prostitution migration / Brenda Oude Breuil -- Afterthoughts. Security, anti-security, positive security / Ian Loader.
Summary:
"Safety and security are often seen in light of crime, disorder and fear. This fuels a political and social climate obsessed with a negative logic of 'fighting' criminals, 'controlling' populations, and 'excluding' unwanted others. Other, more positive or constitutive, discourses and practices about safety and security have fallen out of fashion. But, what alternatives to contemporary processes of securitization and criminalization can be imagined when starting from a positive critique of security? Which theoretical and empirical resources support and inspired more positive notions of security? This multidisciplinary volume brings together a team of renowned scholars to stress that security also includes notions of care, trust and belonging. By taking the concept of security beyond traditional criminal law, the scholars in this volume bring cutting-edge theoretical and empirical analyses on the importance of human connectedness, community building and feelings of solidarity as a way to resist hegemonic and negative meanings of security. This volume will appeal to researchers in the field of criminology, political science, sociology, philosophy and security studies"--Back cover.
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