Security Assemblages in Urban Environments
At PACSA, University of Amsterdam August 28-30
http://www.pacsa-web.eu/pasca-meeting-2017-amsterdam/
Frank Müller, University of Amsterdam
Patrick Weir, University of Amsterdam
In the past ten years, assemblage thinking has moved firmly into the
mainstream social-scientific lexicon. As a heterogeneous theoretical
apparatus with its origins in the thought of Deleuze & Guattari (1988) and
systematised more recently by DeLanda (2006, 2015) assemblage thought also
intersects with neo- materialist political ecologies (Bennett 2010), and
actor-network theory (Latour 2006), and has informed critical empirical
research in urban studies (Blok & Farias 2016), environmental anthropology
(Li 2007), security studies (Bachmann et al. 2015) and political geography
(Painter 2010).
This session invites contributions developing assemblage theory in
relation to urban security, and specifically to its reconfiguration
through hybrid forms of public-private security governance, in which
heterogeneous and entangled actors, human and non-human, blur the line
between state and non-state spheres of rule.
Given that assemblage emphasises emergence, multiplicity, indeterminacy and
"experiments with methodological and presentational practices in order to
attend to a lively world of differences" (Anderson & McFarlane 2011), the
session seeks inter-disciplinary contributions that speak to the notion of
security assemblages as complex and open-ended socio-material
constellations, encounters and events. In particular we welcome papers
that make empirically informed theoretical contributions to the analysis
of urban securitization at the intersection of police, criminal groups,
private security firms and their entanglements with objects, technologies
and various forms of materiality.
Possible topics and themes include, but are not limited to:
- Politics and agency in urban assemblages
- Public/Private security encounters
- Affect, materiality and urban securitization
- Human-Non-human security assemblages
- Assemblages of citizenship in urban contexts
- Bodies, technologies and objects in urban security
The organisers envisage papers from this session to be developed into a
special issue on security assemblages.
Please email abstracts of no more than 250 words to [log in to unmask]
clearly indicating that you wish to be part of this panel
For questions regarding the panel please contact the panel organizers:
Frank Müller ([log in to unmask]) & Patrick Weir ([log in to unmask])
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*Postdoctoral Researcher @ SECURCIT (security-assemblages.com)
Center for Urban Studies
Universiteit van Amsterdam
*Journal Editor @ crolar.org
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