Rhetorics of Insecurity: Belonging and Violence in the Neoliberal Era: 5 (Social Science Research Council) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0814708439 ISBN 13: 9780814708439

Publisher: NYU Press, 2013

Synopsis

In Rhetorics of Insecurity, Zeynep Gambetti and Marcial Godoy-Anativia bring together a select group of scholars to investigate the societal ramifications of the present-day concern with security in diverse contexts and geographies. The essays claim that discourses and practices of security actually breed insecurity, rather than merely being responses to the latter. By relating the binary of security/insecurity to the binary of neoliberalism/neoconservatism, the contributors to this volume reveal the tensions inherent in the proliferation of individualism and the concurrent deployment of techniques of societal regulation around the globe. Chapters explore the phenomena of indistinction, reversal of terms, ambiguity, and confusion in security discourses. Scholars of diverse backgrounds interpret the paradoxical simultaneity of the suspension and enforcement of the law through a variety of theoretical and ethnographic approaches, and they explore the formation and transformation of forms of belonging and exclusion. Ultimately, the volume as a whole aims to understand one crucial question: whether securitized neoliberalism effectively spells the end of political liberalism as we know it today.

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About the Authors

Zeynep Gambetti is Associate Professor of Political Theory at Bogaziçi University, Istanbul.

Marcial Godoy-Anativia is Associate Director of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics at New York University, where he serves as co-editor of its online journal e-misférica.

Edition details

• Publisher: NYU Press
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0814708439
• ISBN 13: 9780814708439
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 268
• Editor: Gambetti Zeynep, Godoy-Anativia Marcial