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In Rhetorics of Insecurity, Zeynep Gambetti and Marcial Godoy-Anativia bring together a select group of scholars to investigate the societal ramifications of the present-day concern with security in diverse contexts and geographies. The essays claim that discourses and practices of security actually breed insecurity, rather than merely being responses to the latter. By relating the binary of security/insecurity to the binary of neoliberalism/neoconservatism, the contributors to this volume reveal the tensions inherent in the proliferation of individualism and the concurrent deployment of techniques of societal regulation around the globe. Chapters explore the phenomena of indistinction, reversal of terms, ambiguity, and confusion in security discourses. Scholars of diverse backgrounds interpret the paradoxical simultaneity of the suspension and enforcement of the law through a variety of theoretical and ethnographic approaches, and they explore the formation and transformation of forms of belonging and exclusion. Ultimately, the volume as a whole aims to understand one crucial question: whether securitized neoliberalism effectively spells the end of political liberalism as we know it today.

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Author:   Zeynep Gambetti ,  Marcial Godoy-Anativia
Publisher:   New York University Press
Imprint:   New York University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.726kg
ISBN:  

9780814708439

ISBN 10:   0814708439
Pages:   268
Publication Date:   23 August 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"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"

Reviews

This book explains many mysterious things: the strange, increasingly violent permutations of the state with mafias, ethnicity, and 'NGOs'; 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 we'll need to think with and beyond to get out of here alive. -Diane M. Nelson, author of Reckoning: The Ends of War in Guatemala

Author Information

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.

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