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Security/ Mobility: Politics of movement by Leese, Matthias (editor);Wittendorp, Stef (editor) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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This book brings together a number of contributions that look into the political regulation of movement and analyses that engage the material enablers of and constraints on such movement. It attempts to bridge theoretical perspectives from critical security studies and political geography in order to provide a more comprehensive perspective on security and mobility. In this vein, the book brings together approaches to mobility that take into account both techniques and practices of regulating movement, as well as their underlying infrastructures. Together the contributions inquire into a politics of movement that lies at the core of the production of security. Drawing on the insight that security is a contingent concept that hinges on the social construction of threat – which in turn must be understood through its political, social, economic, and cultural dimensions – the contributors offer fine-grained perspectives on a presumably mobile and insecure world. The title of the book, Security/Mobility, is a direct reference to this world that at times appears dominated by these two paradigms. As is shown throughout the book, rather than being opposed to each other, a great deal of pol

Who reads Security/ Mobility: Politics of movement?

Author

Leese, Matthias (editor);Wittendorp, Stef (editor)

Publisher

Manchester University Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781526107459

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Sociology, Science, Political Science

Updated

2026-03-24