Security and Space : In Pursuit of Interconnections.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hayward, Keith.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (287 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2026.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

1 In Pursuit of Interconnections Between Security and Space

Critical security studies: existing and alternative spaces

Shifting to geopolitics: territory, verticality, volume, borders

Book origins and structure

References

Part I Security, Space and Infrastructures

2 The Smart City as Adversarial Vector

Introduction

The smart city: a brief history

The smart city as a 'preventative technical imaginary'

The 'Techlash': technological innovation as adversarial surface

Smart technology as a criminal attack surface

Resisting, evading, and destabilizing smart technology

Conclusion

Notes

3 The Paradoxes of 'Security' and State Space in Singapore's Housing Development Board Estates

Rethinking everyday 'security' and domination through Lefebvre

State space in the Housing Development Board estate

Security, crime control and state space in Yishun

Security and authoritarian nation-​building in Singapore's HDB estates

Note

4 Precarious Security: From Walled City to Walled Garden

Security, carcerality and containment

Ontological security in the Walled City

The walled garden of life after prison

5 Of Mazes, Complex Space and Secrecy Games in Security Politics

The maze as spatial form

The security space-​time of mazes

Mazes and secrecy games

Part II Security, Space and Identity

6 Defensive Masculinities and Flex Warehouse Security: Utopias at the Urban Edge

Framing the flex warehouse fortress

Positioning defensive masculinities

Securing the urban and securing masculinity.

Encounters with the flex warehouse

Reflection 1: an English warehouse

Reflection 2: plaza, coliseum, temple

7 Proclaiming a State During and After the 1916 Easter Rising

Doreen Massey and spatial interrelations

Mission impossible? Securing spaces, security and memories

Not so quiet on the Irish front: the 1916 Easter Rising

Reimaging the state through wars and peace

Ethical remembering and shifting storylines

8 Ontological Security-​Seeking and Regional Imaginaries in Post-​1991 Ethiopia

Connecting ontological security-​seeking to notions of space

Seeking ontological security as a united political community

Seeking ontological security as an international actor

Seeking ontological security in relation to a 'relevant Other'

9 Space, Ontological (In)security, and Urban Redevelopment

Ontological security in urban redevelopment

Growth, ontological security, and the politics of hope

Ontic space and the production of racial identity

Reproducing ontological in security: gentrification and neighbourhood change

10 Space, Ontological Security and Christo and Jeanne-​Claude's Wrapped Reichstag (1995)

'Ontic spaces' and ontological security

'Borrowing' and being in space

Part III Security, Space and Governance

11 The Shifting Referents of Space Security

Anarchy in space?

Data selection

Method

Analysis

Annex: UN Resolutions analysed in this chapter

12 Policing and Spatial Imaginings

Policing public space

Policing private, hybrid and communal space

Policing transnational space.

Policing digital space

Policing planetary space

Climate gating

Polycentrism, new assemblages and indigenous knowledges

13 Depoliticizing Energy Security in the UK's North Sea

Depoliticizing the North Sea

The North Sea under transition

Is North Sea oil and gas 'British' and 'cheap'?

Spatial ungovernance: cooking the books, cooking the planet

14 Beyond Offshore Finance: Security in the Archipelago of Offshore Spaces

Offshore:​ an array of political economy spaces

Offshore finance as security threat

Flags of convenience

Freeports

15 Counterterrorism in Rural and Remote Spaces

New age of counterterrorism policy

From policy to implementation

The continuities of a globalized world

The challenges of geography

Community spirit and resiliency

Lower case numbers

Afterword: Security Takes Place -​ Contrapuntal Reading as Method

The Foucauldian legacy in Critical Security Studies

'Contrapuntal reading' as a method

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-5292-4571-0

OCLC:

1585501100