Resilience and (in)security: Practices, subjects, temporalities

TY - JOUR

T1 - Resilience and (in)security

T2 - Practices, subjects, temporalities

AU - dunn cavelty, myriam

AU - Kaufmann, Mareile

AU - Kristensen, Kristian Søby

PY - 2015/2/13

Y1 - 2015/2/13

N2 - Diverse, sometimes even contradictory concepts and practices of resilience have proliferated into a wide range of security policies. In introducing this special issue, we problematize and critically discuss how these forms of resilience change environments, create subjects, link temporalities, and redefine relations of security and insecurity. We show the increased attention – scholarly as well as political – given to resilience in recent times and provide a review of the state of critical security studies literature on resilience. We argue that to advance this discussion, resilience needs to be conceptualized and investigated in plural terms. We use temporalities and subjectivities as key analytical aspects to investigate the plural instantiations of resilience in actual political practice. These two issues – subjectivity and temporality – form the overall context for the special issue and are core themes for all the articles collected here.

AB - Diverse, sometimes even contradictory concepts and practices of resilience have proliferated into a wide range of security policies. In introducing this special issue, we problematize and critically discuss how these forms of resilience change environments, create subjects, link temporalities, and redefine relations of security and insecurity. We show the increased attention – scholarly as well as political – given to resilience in recent times and provide a review of the state of critical security studies literature on resilience. We argue that to advance this discussion, resilience needs to be conceptualized and investigated in plural terms. We use temporalities and subjectivities as key analytical aspects to investigate the plural instantiations of resilience in actual political practice. These two issues – subjectivity and temporality – form the overall context for the special issue and are core themes for all the articles collected here.

KW - Faculty of Social Sciences

KW - insecurity

KW - resilience

KW - security

KW - security practices

KW - temporality

U2 - 10.1177/0967010614559637

DO - 10.1177/0967010614559637

M3 - Journal article

SN - 0967-0106

VL - 46

SP - 3

EP - 14

JO - Security Dialogue

JF - Security Dialogue

IS - 1

ER -