Transecting securityscapes : dispatches from Cambodia, Iraq, and Mozambique / Till F. Paasche, James Derrick Sidaway.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Paasche, Till F., author.

Sidaway, James D., author.

Series:

Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation

Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation ; v.52

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Security sector--Iraq.

Security sector.

Internal security--Mozambique.

Internal security.

Security sector--Mozambique.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (152 pages)

Place of Publication:

Athens, Georgia : University of Georgia Press, [2021]

Summary:

"Transecting Securityscapes draws on over a decade of fieldwork and participant observation by the co-authors from three conflicted contexts - Cambodia, the Kurdistan region of Iraq and Mozambique. The book pushes critical geopolitics, still often theory-led and discourse-bound, into terrains of the everyday, developing on a method of urban and territorial transects, combined with a range of other methods and modes of encounter. The three research sites enable comparative reflections on diversity and commonality in "securityscapes", studying both long-term networks and short-term circuits. Intersections between "security", power and political economy are examined in the contexts of empire, decolonization, revolution, Cold War and its aftermaths. The result is a book of wide interest; for scholarship on each of the research sites, for others developing qualitative methods in security studies, urban and political geography and for all analysts of conflict, violence and peace"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Situating securityscapes

Transecting securityscapes

Maputo's fractures

The fall and rise of Phnom Penh

Kurdistan: the fire next time

The world does not exist for our theories.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8203-6059-7

OCLC:

1268121883