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Book SynopsisDrawing on critical geopolitics and related strands of social theory, this book combines new case studies with theoretical and methodological reflections on the geographical analysis of security and insecurity. It brings together a mixture of early career and more established scholars and interprets security and the war on terror across a number of domains, including: international law, religion, migration, development, diaspora, art, nature and social movements. At a time when powerful projects of globalization and security continue to extend their reach over an increasingly wide circle of people and places, the book demonstrates the relevance of critical geographical imaginations to an interrogation of the present.
Trade Review'An extremely rich collection of essays that captures the global and historical complexity of security and insecurity theoretically and practically. Ideal for teaching.' Cynthia Weber, Lancaster University, UK 'This innovative collection brings together the best of critical geopolitics scholarship in a comprehensive engagement with the contexts of contemporary insecurity. In emphasizing themes of affect and performance these excellent essays offer pointed critiques of the practicalities of the war on terror while simultaneously suggesting possibilities for more peaceful futures.' Simon Dalby, Carleton University, Canada '...a fascinating cross-section of contemporary understandings of security that take us well beyond stock-in-trade critiques of the political lassitude and legal effrontery of Western states, particularly the previous US Administration...Although they are aware of the moral, legal, ethical and political questions posed by the subject matter, the main points they raise are primarily geographical ones...The result is a satisfying analytical arc, which begins with an international-relations critique of Tony Blair's vision of "just" war and ends in artwork that projects security plans from Baghdad on to a map of Brussels to bring the "urban geopolitics" of the Iraqi capital closer to home.' Times Higher Education
Table of Contents1: Spaces of Security and Insecurity: Geographies of the War on Terror; 1: Constructing the War on Terror; 2: Blair, Neo-Conservatism and the War on Territorial Integrity 1; 3: Containers of Fate: Problematic States and Paradoxical Sovereignty; 4: Colonizing Commemoration: Sacred Space and the War on Terror 1; 5: A ‘New Mecca for Terrorism'? Unveiling the ‘Second Front' in Southeast Asia; 2: Governing Through Security; 6: Disciplining the Diaspora: Tamil Self-Determination and the Politics of Proscription; 7: Negotiating Security: Governmentality and Asylum/Immigration NGOs in the UK; 8: Asylum, Immigration and the Circulation of Unease at Lunar House; 9: Garden Terrorists and the War on Weeds: Interrogating New Zealand's Biosecurity Regime; 10: ‘All We Need is NATO'?: Euro-Atlantic Integration and Militarization in Europe; 3: Alternative Imaginations; 11: Satellite Television, the War on Terror and Political Conflict in the Arab World; 12: Maranatha! Premillennial Dispensationalism and the Counter-Intuitive Geopolitics of (In)Security; 13: Common Ground? Anti-Imperialism in UK Anti-War Movements; 14: Art and the Geopolitical: Remapping Security at Green Zone/Red Zone
