Ivasiuc, Ana
(2022)
Provincializing Security: Materiality and Sensoriality.
Critical Studies On Security.
ISSN 2162-4909
Abstract
Security has come to embody a self-evident and much sought-after kind of
good, and has come to colonise imaginaries, debates, policies, and large
swathes of what social life means in various corners of the world. Echoing
postcolonial calls for decentring that which is taken for granted, my essay
seeks to provincialise security in three distinct ways. Drawing on my
research on the securitisation of the Roma in Italy, first, I trace the transfor-
mation of the term sicurezza from safety to security in a recent-historical
perspective, showing how the notion morphed from bodily integrity to a
much more blurred – though taken for granted – concept. Second, using
a non-representational approach grounded in new materialism, I show that
what hides beneath the ubiquitous talk of sicurezza surrounding the Roma
nowadays are dimensions of materiality and sensoriality that construct
insecurity in a relational and ever-shifting manner. Third, I privilege the
perspective of the Roma in a decolonising move that questions their secur-
itisation and the overall framing of Roma-related concerns as a security
problem. Finally, I show the productivity of the topology framework in
provincialising both security, and the western-centric theory production
around it.
| Item Type: |
Article
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| Keywords: |
campi nomadi; materiality;
new materialism; Roma;
Rome; security; sensoriality; |
| Academic Unit: |
Faculty of Social Sciences > Anthropology |
| Item ID: |
16794 |
| Identification Number: |
https://doi.org/10.1080/21624887.2022.2091913 |
| Depositing User: |
Ana Ivasiuc
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| Date Deposited: |
05 Jan 2023 11:55 |
| Journal or Publication Title: |
Critical Studies On Security |
| Publisher: |
Taylor & Francis |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
| URI: |
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| Use Licence: |
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