Contesting Security Strategies and Logics [Hardcover]

Contesting Securityinvestigates to what extent the logic of security, which underpins securitization, can be contained, rolled back or dismantled.

Featuring legitimacy as a cement of security practices, this volume presents a detailed account of the logic which sustains security in order to develop a novel approach to the relation between security and the policies in which it is engraved. Understanding security as a normative practice, the contributors suggest a nuanced, and richer take on the conditions under which it is possible, advisable or fair to accept or roll back its policies.

The book comprises four sections, each investigating one specific modality of contesting security practices: resistance, desecuritization, emancipation, and resilience. These strategies are examined, compared and assessed in different political and cultural habitats.

This book will be of much interest to students of critical security studies, securitisation theory, social theory, and IR in general.

Preface 1. Legitimacy and the Logic of Security, Thierry Balzacq  Part I: Resistance Editors Introduction 2. Security and Surveillance Contests: Resistance and Counter-Resistance, Gary T. Marx 3. Contesting and Resisting Security in Post-Mao China, Juha A. Vuori4. Poking Holes and Spreading Cracks in the Wall: Resistance to National Security Policies Under Bush, Florent Blanc  Part II: Desecuritization Editors Introduction 6. Security as Universality? The Roma Contesting Security in Europe, Claudia Aradau7. The Political Limits of Desecuritization: Security, Arms Trade, and the EUs Economic Target, Thierry Balzacq, Sara Depauw and Sarah L?onard8. Just and Unjust Desecuritizations,Rita Floyd  Part III: EmanlS(