Transecting Securityscapes: Dispatches from Cambodia, Iraq, and Mozambique - Couverture rigide

Paasche, Till F.; Sidaway, James Derrick

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0820360600 ISBN 13 : 9780820360607

Editeur : University of Georgia Press, 2021

Synopsis

Transecting Securityscapes is an innovative book on the everyday life of security, told via an examination of three sites: Cambodia, the Kurdistan region of Iraq, and Mozambique. The authors’ study of how security is enacted differently in these three sites, taking account of the rich layers of context and culture, enables comparative reflections on diversity and commonality in “securityscapes.” In Transecting Securityscapes, Till F. Paasche and James D. Sidaway put into practice a diverse and contextual approach to security that contrasts with the aerial, big-picture view taken by many geopolitics scholars. In applying this grounded approach, they develop a method of urban and territorial transects, combined with other methods and modes of encounter. The book draws on a broad range of traditions, but it speaks mostly to political geography, urban studies, and international relations research on geopolitics, stressing the need for ethnographic, embodied, affective, and place-based approaches to conflict. The result is a sustained theoretical critique of abstract research on geopolitical conflict and security—mainstream as well as academic—that pretends to be able to know and analyze conflict “from above.”

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

TILL F. PAASCHE is an associate professor of political geography at Soran University, Kurdistan region, Iraq.

JAMES D. SIDAWAY is professor of political geography at the National University of Singapore.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Georgia Press
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0820360600
• ISBN 13: 9780820360607
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 184
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible