Living dangerously: securityscapes of Lyuli and LGBT people in urban spaces of Kyrgyzstan

Boemcken, Marc von; Boboyorov, Hafiz; Bagdasarova, Nina

doi:10.1080/02634937.2017.1334627

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“…This can be understood from a perspective that scapes are imaginary transboundary perceptions consisting of "ethnic, cultural, religious, national, political, and other identities" not confined to geographical scales but are subject to globalization drivers such as labor mobility, technology innovation and diffusion, media communication, curation and management, and ideology with regard to individual domestication of the above-mentioned issues (Omurov, 2017). Following Appadurai's concept of "scapes, " von Boemcken has attempted a refinement of the definition of securityscapes (Von Boemcken et al, 2018;Von Boemcken, 2019;Von Boemcken and Bagdasarova, 2020). In these studies, the authors highlighted that people have developed both mitigation and adaptation strategies and everyday life behavior linked to perceived and imagined threats and potential solutions.…”

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Reconfigured securityscapes in Louis Trichardt: Possibilities, limitations, and contradictions

Chakwizira

2023

Front. Sustain. Cities

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Insecurity, violence, and xenophobia manifest at different geographic scales of the South African landscape threatening to compromise, reverse, derail, and contradict the envisaged democratic processes and gains in the country. Since the dawn of the new democracy in 1994, the South African landscape has witnessed surges of different scales of violence, protests, riots, looting, criminality, and vigilantism in which question marks have been raised with respect to the right to the city or urban space and the right to national resources and opportunities, i.e., access, use, distribution and spread of social, economic, environmental, and political resources and benefits. Louis Trichardt is a small rural agricultural town located in the Makhado municipality of Vhembe District in Limpopo Province, South Africa. In the study, this town is used as a securityscapes lens of analysis to explore urban conflict and violence. The relative importance index (RII) was used to measure the barriers and solutions to advance safe neighborhoods' settlements and built environment areas in the study area. In this way, issues influencing the performance of reconfigured securityscapes in Louis Trichardt were explored by highlighting how new town neighborhood securityscape initiatives and activities are contributing to space, place, and culture change management transitions. The discussion pressure and pain points revolve around the widening societal inequalities, deepening poverty, influx of (ll)legal migrants and migrant labor, lingering xenophobia, and failure to embrace the otherness difficulties in the country. Findings highlight the options for urban (in)security, social (in)justice, and (re)design in post-colonies possibilities, limitations, and contradictions of securityscapes in (re)configured spaces of Louis Trichardt. Policy and planning proposals to improve safety and security spatial logic and innovation are explored. The critical role of community and local neighborhood watch groups in complementing state security and private registered security systems is one way of tackling this matter.

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Reconfigured securityscapes in Louis Trichardt: Possibilities, limitations, and contradictions

Chakwizira

2023

Front. Sustain. Cities

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“…For the statebuilding mission in Afghanistan, Kühn examined the link between security and development, while Koopman, as well as Wilkinson and von Boemcken et al, have studied state-related security practices in non-Western states (Koopman, 2011;F. P. Kühn, 2010;von Boemcken, Boboyorov, & Bagdasarova, 2018;Wilkinson, 2007). But despite the growing interest indicated by these contributions, there is still relatively little research on the link between security and statebuilding in general, and especially on how security contributes to socioterritorial ordering in statebuilding.…”

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Security Practices and the Production of Center–Periphery Figurations in Statebuilding

Bonacker

2018

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In this article, I examine the role security plays in creating a socioterritorial order in statebuilding policies. I argue that security contributes to the creation of center–periphery asymmetries, for example, through the portrayal of the center as threatened by a dangerous periphery or the periphery as disloyal and untrustworthy. In particular, I explore how security practices work in two distinct center–periphery figurations: in internal colonization, where a specific population, located within a dominant power, is subordinated; and in international intervention, where a society is internationally ruled. The article incorporates the literature on internal colonialism and international intervention from a critical security studies perspective to show how security functions as a mode of governing by creating specific center–periphery figurations in statebuilding. The overall aim is to provide a new theoretical perspective by intertwining critical security and postcolonial studies and to stimulate empirical research on the function of security as a principle of socioterritorial ordering.

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The Role of Uyat or the Culture of Shame in the Regulation of Queer Subjectivities in Kazakhstan, and Forms of Resistance Against It

Levitanus

2022

The Steppe and Beyond: Studies on Central Asia

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Living dangerously: securityscapes of Lyuli and LGBT people in urban spaces of Kyrgyzstan

Cited by 14 publications

References 30 publications

Reconfigured securityscapes in Louis Trichardt: Possibilities, limitations, and contradictions

Reconfigured securityscapes in Louis Trichardt: Possibilities, limitations, and contradictions

Security Practices and the Production of Center–Periphery Figurations in Statebuilding

The Role of Uyat or the Culture of Shame in the Regulation of Queer Subjectivities in Kazakhstan, and Forms of Resistance Against It

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