Capturing the experience of security from the perspective of those who transect 'securityscapes' in postcolonial cities and embattled territories, this study climaxes in a visceral journey across the multiple and volatile checkpoints crossing the Kurdish lands. It unfolds the passions, interests, dangers, and horrors wrought by geopolitics on the security of everyday life.--Prasenjit Duara "author of The Crisis of Global Modernity"
Path-making as well as path-breaking, Transecting Securityscapes is at once transformational and transgressive in its experimental outings on the edges of traditional security studies. Paasche and Sidaway offer impressively observant and critically contextualized dispatches from their far-flung journeys along frontlines of international insecurity in Cambodia, Iraq, and Mozambique. And the result is a wonderfully worldly remapping of geopolitics as it is encountered, endured, and engaged on the ground in everyday spaces.--Matt Sparke "author of Introducing Globalization: Ties, Tensions, and Uneven Integration"
With lacework-like empirical detail, Transecting Securityscapes cuts through prescriptions and representations of security and geopolitics and through scales and accepted binaries of state/nonstate, home/foreign, urban/rural, hegemonic/subjugated, conflict/peace, and past/present. It zeroes in onto instances of security produced by kinship rather than by hierarchy and highlights fleeting yet powerful moments of revolutionary potential.--Sara Fregonese "author of War and the City: Urban Geopolitics in Lebanon"
Transecting Securityscapes provides a wonderful addition to the field of security studies and political geography. . . . The application of Appadurai's notion of 'scapes' to security allows for a more complex and 'placed' understanding of the optics and practice of security.--Jessie Clark, assistant professor of Geography at the University of Nevada, Reno