Security
As security becomes an increasingly explicit preoccupation within capitalist practice, state ideology, and claims to personal safety, the following section retraces some of the ways in which Cultural Anthropology has explored the topic of "security."
Security is often an underlying association between many ethnographic texts and investigations, empirically the investigations can range from immigration policy and enforcement (see "Compassion and Repression: The Moral Economy of Immigration Policies in France" Didier Fassin, 2007) to claims for territorial sovereignty (see "Subaltern Struggles and the Politics of Place: Remapping Resistance in Zimbabwe's Eastern Highlands, Donald S. Moore, 1998) and personal safety (see "Fear as a Way of Life", Linda Green, 1994). Security is implicated in the literature surrounding economic risk (see "The Productive Life of Risk", Caitlin Zaloom, 2004) and can also found in the daily practices involved in policing various populations (see "Can Metal Detectors Replace the Panopticon?", John Devine, 1995) and managing laboring bodies (see Neoliberal Governmentality and Neohumanism: Organizing Suzhi/Value Flow through Labor Recruitment Networks, Yan Hairong, 2003). These articles speak at the local and global level, asking readers to consider the implications of international policies (see "The Global Reservation: Notes towards an Ethnography of International Peacekeeping", Amitav Ghosh, 1994) and the ways in which security can deliver global consequences (see "Nuclear Weapon and the Other in the Western Imagination", Hugh Gusterson, 1994). The articles in this section tackle the topic of security—some implicitly, others explicitly—from a diverse range of theoretical and empirical vantage points. Taken together, they represent over 20 years of anthropological inquiries that reveal the underlying attention to the various mechanisms of state, economic and personal control that are continually engaged in an ever-increasing securitized world.
"CORPORATE SECURITY BEGINS IN THE COMMUNITY": Mining, the Corporate Social Responsibility Industry, and Environmental Advocacy in Indonesia
Marina A. Welker
Cultural Anthropology Feb. 2009, Vol. 24, No. 1: 142-179
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The Generic Biothreat, or, How We Became Unprepared
Andrew Lakoff
Cultural Anthropology Aug. 2008, Vol. 23, No. 3: 399-428.
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"Survival is Your Business": Engineering Ruins and Affect in Nuclear America
Joseph Masco
Cultural Anthropology May 2008, Vol. 23, No. 2: 361-398.
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Pesticides in Coca-Cola and Pepsi:Consumerism, Brand Image, and Public Interest in a Globalizing India
Neeraj Vedwan
Cultural Anthropology Nov. 2007, Vol. 22, No. 4: 659-684.
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The City as Barracks: Freetown, Monrovia, and the Organization of Violence in Postcolonial African Cities
Danny Hoffman
Cultural Anthropology Aug. 2007, Vol. 22, No. 3: 400-428.
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Difficult Distinctions: Refugee Law, Humanitarian Practice, and Political Identification in Gaza
Ilana Feldman
Cultural Anthropology Feb. 2007, Vol. 22, No. 1: 129-169.
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Learning from New Orleans: The Social Warrant of Hostile Privatism and Competitive Consumer Citizenship
George Lipsitz
Cultural Anthropology Aug. 2006, Vol. 21, No. 3: 451-468.
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Crossbreeding Institutions, Breeding Struggle: Women's Empowerment, Neoliberal Governmentality, and State (Re)Formation in India
Aradhana Sharma
Cultural Anthropology Feb. 2006, Vol. 21, No. 1: 60-95.
Due Diligence and “Reasonable Man,” Offshore
Bill Maurer
Cultural Anthropology Nov. 2005, Vol. 20, No. 4: 474-505.
Compassion and Repression: The Moral Economy of Immigration Policies in France
Didier Fassin
Cultural Anthropology Aug. 2005, Vol. 20, No. 3: 362-387.
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Doctor, Borders and Life in Crisis
Peter Redfield
Cultural Anthropology Aug. 2005, Vol. 20, No. 3: 328-361.
Changing the Subject: Conversation in Supermax
Lorna A. Rhodes
Cultural Anthropology Aug. 2005, Vol. 20, No. 3: 388-411.
Election Day: The Construction of Democracy through Technique
Kimberley A. Coles
Cultural Anthropology Nov. 2004, Vol. 19, No. 4: 551-580.
Mutant Ecologies: Radioactive Life in Post–Cold War New Mexico
Joseph Masco
Cultural Anthropology Nov. 2004, Vol. 19, No. 4: 517-550.
The Bakassi Boys: Vigilantism, Violence, and Political Imagination in Nigeria
Daniel Jordan Smith
Cultural Anthropology Aug. 2004, Vol. 19, No. 3: 429-455.
The Productive Life of Risk
Caitlin Zaloom
Cultural Anthropology Aug. 2004, Vol. 19, No. 3: 365-391
"Visible Signs of a City Out of Control”: Community Policing in New York City
Benjamin Chesluk
Cultural Anthropology May. 2004, Vol. 19, No. 2: 250-275.
Neoliberal Governmentality and Neohumanism: Organizing Suzhi/Value Flow through Labor Recruitment Networks
Yan Hairong
Cultural Anthropology Nov. 2003, Vol. 18, No. 4: 493-523.
Violence and the Rhetoric of Images
Gregory Starrett
Cultural Anthropology Aug. 2003, Vol. 18, No. 3: 398-428.
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Notes on Jewish-Muslim Relationships: Revisiting the Vanishing Moroccan Jewish Community
André Levy
Cultural Anthropology Aug. 2003, Vol. 18, No. 3: 365-397.
Incorporating a Malaysian Nation
Thomas Williamson
Cultural Anthropology Aug. 2002, Vol. 17, No. 3: 401-430.
Spectacles of Modernity: Transnational Imagination and Local Hegemonies in Neoliberal Buenos Aires
Emanuela Guano
Cultural Anthropology May 2002, Vol. 17, No. 2: 181-209.
From the "Clean Snows of Petawawa": The Violence of Canadian Peacekeepers in Somalia
Sherene Razack
Cultural Anthropology Feb. 2000, Vol. 15, No. 1: 127-163.
From the "Clean Snows of Petawawa": The Violence of Canadian Peacekeepers in Somalia
Sherene Razack
Cultural Anthropology Feb. 2000, Vol. 15, No. 1: 127-163.
Nuclear Weapons and the Other in the Western Imagination
Hugh Gusterson
Cultural Anthropology Feb. 1999, Vol. 14, No. 1: 111-143.
Subaltern Struggles and the Politics of Place: Remapping Resistance in Zimbabwe's Eastern Highlands
Donald S. Moore
Cultural Anthropology Aug. 1998, Vol. 13, No. 3: 344-381.
The UN Security Council, Indifference, and Genocide in Rwanda
Michael N. Barnett
Cultural Anthropology Nov. 1997, Vol. 12, No. 4: 551-578.
Meat Strength: The Moral Economy of a Chilean Food Riot
Benjamin S. Orlove
Cultural Anthropology. May 1997, Vol. 12, No. 2: 234-268.
To Revolt against the Revolution: War and Resistance in Peru's Andes
Orin Starn
Cultural Anthropology Nov. 1995, Vol. 10, No. 4: 547-580.
Executing Ethnicity: The Killings in Suriname
Richard Price
Cultural Anthropology Nov. 1995, Vol. 10, No. 4: 437-471.
Can Metal Detectors Replace the Panopticon?
John Devine
Cultural Anthropology May 1995, Vol. 10, No. 2: 171-195.
Panopticon in Poona: An Essay on Foucault and Colonialism
Martha Kaplan
Cultural Anthropology Feb. 1995, Vol. 10, No. 1: 85-98.
The Global Reservation: Notes toward an Ethnography of International Peacekeeping
Amitav Ghosh
Cultural Anthropology Aug. 1994, Vol. 9, No. 3: 412-422.
Fear as a Way of Life
Linda Green
Cultural Anthropology May 1994, Vol. 9, No. 2: 227-256.
Race, Rubbish, and Resistance: Empowering Difference in Community Politics
Steven Gregory
Cultural Anthropology Feb. 1993, Vol. 8, No. 1: 24-48.
Occupational Hazards: Palestine Ethnography
Ted Swedenburg
Cultural Anthropology Aug. 1989, Vol. 4, No. 3: 265-272.
Analyzing a Speech Event: The Bush-Rather Exchange a (Not Very) Dramatic Dialogue
George L. Dillon, Anne Doyle, Carol Eastman , Harold Schiffman , Sandra Silberstein, Michael Toolan, Susan Kline, Gerry Philipsen
Cultural Anthropology Feb. 1989, Vol. 4, No. 1: 73-94.
Risk in Culture: The American Conflict over Nuclear Power
Gary L. Downey
Cultural Anthropology Nov. 1986, Vol. 1, No. 4: 388-412.
