Security Ethnography And Discourse Transdisciplinary Encounters | Military & Strategic Studies

This interdisciplinary book analyses different contexts where security concerns have an impact on institutional or everyday practices and routines in the lives of ordinary people. Creating a dialogue between the fields of International Relations Peace and Conflict Studies Sociolinguistics Education and Anthropology this book addresses core themes associated with conflict and security – peacebuilding refugee settlement nationalism surveillance and sousveillance – and examines them as they manifest in everyday spaces and practices. Seven empirical studies are presented that bring ethnographic and/or close-up interactional lenses to practices of security in schools refugee centres care homes city streets and roadsides. Drawing on fieldwork and data from Cyprus Bosnia-Herzegovina Sweden Germany and the US the chapters explore what notions of suspicion peace conflict and threat mean and how they are manifested in people’s lived experiences. This book will be of much interest to students of Critical Security Studies Anthropology Sociology Sociolinguistics and International Relations in general. |Security Ethnography and Discourse Transdisciplinary Encounters | Military & Strategic Studies