Security Assemblages in Urban Environments
at PACSA, University of Amsterdam August 28-30
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]<mailto:[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])<mailto:[log in to unmask])> & Patrick Weir ([log in to unmask])<mailto:[log in to unmask])>
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