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Critical Approaches to Security
Critical Approaches to Security
Wednesday, 18 July 2018: 10:30-12:20
Location: 206B (MTCC NORTH BUILDING)
TG04 Sociology of Risk and Uncertainty (host committee) Language: English
Security has become a principle problem and concern of risk conscious societies at all levels, including the security of the State and people’s own feelings of ontological security. Together with risk, the concept of security is deployed across diverse social spheres, including political, legal, economic, environmental, cultural and military domains. It is also an interdisciplinary topic of empirical investigation and critical theoretical reflection and development. This session invites papers which consider critical approaches to security and seek to explore the diverse, contested, contingent and dynamic nature of security in the contemporary world. The session aim is to provide a platform to examine questions such as what and who is defined as a security threat? What type of security is being pursued across different geographical contexts? For what, whom and at what price? Who gets to speak about security and what are the dominant ways security is spoken about? How do dominant security narratives allow some things to be said and thought and not others, allowing some ways of acting to be promoted and exclude others?
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