Publications

Spaces of Peace, Security and Development

Surviving Everyday Life: The Securityscapes of Threatened People in Kyrgyzstan

Release Date

2023

Language

  • English

Topics


Moving beyond state-centric and elitist perspectives, this volume examines everyday security in the Central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and written by scholars from Central Asia and beyond, it shows how insecurity is experienced, what people consider existential threats, and how they go about securing themselves.It concentrates on individuals who feel threatened because of their ethnic belonging, gender or sexual orientation. It develops the concept of ‘securityscapes’, which draws attention to the more subtle means that people take to secure themselves – practices bent on invisibility and avoidance, on disguise and trickery, and on continually adapting to shifting circumstances. By broadening the concept of security practice, this book is an important contribution to debates in Critical Security Studies as well as to Central Asian and Area Studies.

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@book{vonBoemckenSchetterBagdasarova2023, author = "Marc von Boemcken and Conrad Schetter and Nina Bagdasarova, and Aksana Ismailbekova ", title = " Spaces of Peace, Security and Development", subtitle = "Surviving Everyday Life: The Securityscapes of Threatened People in Kyrgyzstan", latexTitle = " Spaces of Peace, Security and Development", publisher = "Bristol University Press", institution = "Bristol University Press", type = "Book", year = "2023", address = "Bristol", }

Document-Type

Book

Publisher

Bristol University Press

Place

Bristol