Research Agenda for Critical Security Studies

Edited by Anna Schliehe, Lecturer in Cultural Geography, Department of Geography, University of Bonn and MSCA Fellow, University of Trier and Kathrin Hörschelmann, Professor in Cultural Geography, Department of Geography, University of Bonn, Germany

‘In our paradoxical age when senses of insecurity increasingly animate politics in societies which are amongst the most secure and wealthiest in human history, this book pulls “security” apart and asks whose security matters and how security looks different depending on who and where you are.’

• ContentsList of contributors vii1 Introduction to A Research Agenda for Critical SecurityStudies 1Anna Schliehe and Kathrin Hörschelmann2 When the state becomes the threat: creatively securingbody and community amid penal excess in Central America 17Julienne Weegels and Mario Araya3 Unveiling visibility: interrogating LGBTQI+ security inKazakhstan 35Altynay Kambekova4 The role of youth as non-state actors in peacebuildingefforts in Nigeria’s conflict zones 53Tope Shola Akinyetun, Ikponmwosa Ebomoyi and Ambrose Iyase5 Revisiting theoretical frameworks of ontological security:Sri Lankan migrant workers’ experiences of resilience andrecognition in Germany 70Ravi N. Gamachchige6 Between protection and oppression: (un)caring securitypolicies amid state violence in El Salvador 93Sofía Rivera-García7 Critical military geographies of weapons technologies andthe hidden politics of militarisation 109Linda Ruppert8 Security from below? Young people, urban space andsocial policy 124Tilman Schwarze, Fern Gillon and Alistair Fraser9 Critical security studies meets intergenerationaltransnationalism beyond the war zone: The LTTE, TamilEelam, and the Tamil diaspora in Canada 140Amarnath Amarasingam, Jennifer Hyndman and GayathriNaganathan10 Less lethal weapons: lessons from Chile 156Javier Velásquez Valenzuela and Isidora Neculpán Castañeda11 The Kremlin’s walled garden: examining orthodoxchristianity, ontological security, and weaponised ecology inthe war in Ukraine 176Catherine Cottrell Studemeyer12 Navigating migration controls: emotional geographies of(in)security and risk among unauthorised people in theBrussels Capital Region 193Floris Liekens, Mattias De Backer and Lucas Melgaço13 Home on the edge of (in)security: four case examples ofyouth, domicide, and the politics of place 210Cindy Sousa, Bree Akesson, Mary Florence Sullivan and Katie King14 Conflicts in relationships of security: water, infrastructureand Indigenous legal orders in Canada 230Deborah Curran and Rebeca B Macias Gimenez15 A comparative analysis of securitisation theory beyond thewest 248Başar Baysal and Can E. MutluIndex 267