Times of Security

"This edited book is central to the main currents of anthropological work on politics, and to the understanding of discourses of security. It addresses these bodies of literature, uniquely and creatively in the opinion of this reader, through a consideration of anthropological work on time and temporality another lively and current key theme of much recent anthropology. Times of Security offers compelling ethnographies of security from a range of different geographical contexts, from South America to Europe and the Middle East, and at different scales, ranging from considerations of local contexts to nation states and even the planet in its entirety." - Magnus Marsden, SOAS

Martin Holbraad is a Lecturer in Anthropology at University College London. Morten Axel Pedersen is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen.

Foreword and Acknowledgments. Introduction: Times of Security Morten Axel Pedersen and Martin Holbraad Defining Security in Late Liberalism: A Comment on Pedersen and Holbraad Elizabeth A. Povinelli 1. Security Is a Collective Body: Intersecting Times of Security in the Copenhagen Climate Summit Stine Krijer 2. "Captured With Their Hands in the Dough": Insecurity, Safety-Seeking and Securitization in El Alto, Bolivia Helene Risr 3. Readings of Time: Of Coca, Presentiment and Illicit Passage in Peru Richard Kernaghan 4. Seizing Catastrophes: The Temporality of Nakba Among Palestinians in Denmark Anja Kublitz 5. Enduring Presents: Living a Prison Sentence as the Wife of a Detainee in Israel Lotte Buch Segal 6. Parasecurity and Paratime in Serbia: Neurocortical Defence and National Consciousness Maja Petrovi- teger 7. Bad Weather: The Time of Planetary Crisis Joseph Masco 8. Time Consciousness in North Koreas State Security Discourse Heonik Kwon Afterword: Notes on Securitization and Temporality Steffen Jensen and Finn Stepputat