Security Ethnography and Discourse

<p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>This book will be of much interest to students of Critical Security Studies Anthropology Sociology Sociolinguistics and International Relations in general.</p>