Overview

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.

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Author:   Keith Hayward (University of Copenhagen) ,  Joe Greener (University of Liverpool) ,  Laura Naegler (University of Liverpool) ,  Anna Schliehe (University of Bonn)
Publisher:   Bristol University Press
Imprint:   Bristol University Press
ISBN:  

9781529245684

ISBN 10:   1529245680
Pages:   286
Publication Date:   26 May 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction - Faye Donnelly and Tilman Schwarze Part 1: Security, Space, and Temporality 1. Space, Ontological Security, and Christo and Jean-Claude's, Wrapped Reichstag (1995) - Christopher Peys 2. Injecting Temporality into Security and Space: Some conceptual groundwork - Adam Crawford 3. ‘The Shoot House’: on the spatial power of mazes in security discourses - Elspeth Van Veeren 4. The Shifting Referents of Space Security - Andrew W. Neal and Lauren Rogers Part 2: Security, Space, and Infrastructures 5. The Smart City Paradigm as Adversarial Vector - Keith Hayward 6. Yishun is f ***ed up: Lefebvre’s state space in neighbourhood design and crime control in Singapore’s HDB estates - Joe Greener and Laura Naegler 7. Space, Ontological (In)security and Urban Redevelopment: Everyday Lived Experiences with Urban Transformation in South Side Chicago - Tilman Schwarze 8. Carceral space and the city - Alistair Fraser and Anna Schliehe Part 3: Security, Space, and Identity 9. Queer Bodies, Visibility, and Space - Dean Cooper-Cunningham 10. ‘Guns, Land, and Warehouse Utopias’: Securing Space for Reactionary Masculinity in the Exurban Borders - Jason Luger 11. Commemorating the 1916 Easter Rising: Excavating Spatial Stories and Security at the General Post Office - Faye Donnelly 12. Prying Eyes and Curious Ears: Designing and Securing Our Backstages - Janos Mark Szakolczai Part 4: Security, Space, and Threat Construction 13. Policing Space: Towards a Fourth Revolution - Julie Berg and Clifford Shearing 14. Exploring Rurality and Policing in the Scottish Drug Markets - Oana Pectu 15. Counterterrorism and the Periphery - Nick Brook 16. Security Claims in the Context of Energy Transitions in Fossil Fuel Dependent Regions – Max Cohen Afterword – Pinar Bilgin

Reviews

""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

Author Information

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.

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