Community, Citizenship and the 'war on Terror': Security and Insecurity

In the context of the 'global war on terror', the issue of security has come to affect more and more intimate elements of people's everyday lives. This is the starting point of this interdisciplinary collection, which focuses on how the line between security and insecurity is negotiated through changing concepts of 'community' and 'citizenship'.

Author: Patricia Noxolo, Jef Huysmans
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 08/01/2009
Pages: 211
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.50w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780230201217

About the Author

PAT NOXOLO is Lecturer in Human Geography in the Department of Geography at Loughborough University, UK. Her research interests surround the nexus between security, identity and postcoloniality.

JEF HUYSMANS is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) at the Open University, UK. His research centres on the political significance of security practice in Western societies, the securitization of immigration, asylum and refugees, and the politics of fear and exception.