Security of geography/geography of security

Philo, Chris

doi:10.1111/j.1475-5661.2011.00488.x

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“…Furthermore, as Philo (2012) asserts, while the underlying sources of insecurity might have something in common, such as a financial crisis or climate change, their implications vary widely for different people in differing places around the world. This assertion resonates with Lemanski's (2012: 63) call for studying "the individualized, local and bottom-up experiences and approaches of humans themselves" when analysing security.…”

Section: Conceptualising Security and Employmentmentioning

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“…Taking heed of assertions that it is important to analyse security in all its scales (Philo, 2012), young people's employment insecurity has been shown to be affected by processes that operate from the global down to the body. At a global scale, neoliberal policies have influenced Zambia's economic policies resulting in an increased focus on liberalisation and entrepreneurship.…”

Section: Concluding Commentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Expanding the scales and domains of (in)security: Youth employment in urban Zambia

2015

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Most research on issues of (in)security has tended to have a military/safety angle and focus on global/national scales linked to spectacular events. This paper addresses the overlooked insecurity realities of urban dwellers in the global South through a focus on more persistent and enduring forms of employment insecurities among young people. Building on both quantitative and qualitative data collected in a low-income settlement in Lusaka, Zambia, we explore how young people perceive their employment situation and examine the practices they engage in when seeking ways of making a living. Through analysing their views and experiences we show how employment insecurity is influenced by processes operating at the body, local, national and global scales, and how employment insecurity is closely interconnected with insecurity in other domains of young people's lives including the household, housing and education. Although the youth unemployment situation is often viewed as a serious threat to human security, we show how the lack of stable employment in itself is a manifestation of insecurity.

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Section: Conceptualising Security and Employmentmentioning

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Section: Concluding Commentsmentioning

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Expanding the scales and domains of (in)security: Youth employment in urban Zambia

2015

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“…Recent energy vulnerability scholarship -whose detailed consideration would extend beyond the confines of this paper -has emphasized the importance of considering the problem through a spatial and temporal framework, while highlighting its social construction and the need to consider how why and how a given entity may become or be considered vulnerable (Christmann et al 2012;Philo 2012;Waite, Valentine, and Lewis 2014). Energy vulnerability has been used in a very wide range of contexts, as it can refer to the infrastructural determinants of resource supply and import dependence at a variety of scales, as well as the systemic conditions that allow some entities to become more socially and technically precarious than others (Christie 2009;Hall, Hards, and Bulkeley 2013;Hiteva 2013).…”

Section: Revisiting the 'New Energy Paradigm' Via A Geographical Lensmentioning

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Multiple transformations: theorizing energy vulnerability as a socio-spatial phenomenon

Bouzarovski

Herrero

Petrova

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Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography

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The on-going transition towards low-carbon forms of energy provision (frequently termed 'energy transitions') has triggered far-reaching material, economic and institutional reconfigurations at the global scale. There is evidence to suggest that energy transitions increase the social vulnerability of actors involved in and affected by them, including entities operating at different scales, from individual households to entire states. However, the link between energy vulnerability and energy transitions remains poorly understood. We aim to formulate an explicitly geographical perspective on this relationship. The paper is based on an analysis of documentary evidence and 170 expert interviews undertaken between April 2013 and March 2015. This research took place in the post-communist states of Central and Eastern Europe where systemic change has fundamentally altered the institutional landscape of the energy sector since the early 1990s. Our findings point to the need for understanding energy vulnerability as an evolving socio-spatial phenomenon embedded in multiple layers of institutional change and organizational practice. We identify urban landscapes as the primary site for the geographic expression and articulation of domestic energy deprivation. ARTICLE HISTORY

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“…It was my privilege to be nominated Chair of the 2012 Annual Conference (AC) of the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers (RGS-IBG), in which capacity I proposed a conference theme of 'Security of geography/geography of security' and authored a short essay encompassing what this theme might tackle (Philo 2012). In conceiving both this essay and a conference session for AC2012, I wanted to trace the theme of (in)security across a diversity of terrains, baggily indexed as 'environment', 'state', 'society' and 'self', with a sense -notwithstanding certain objections to scale in recent literatures -of progressively down-scaling the argument from the planetary to what I termed 'the 'closest-in' human geography of security' (Philo 2012: 3).…”

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Insecure bodies/selves: introduction to theme section

Philo¹

2014

Social & Cultural Geography

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A shattered worldThrough and beyond the objects I see there are endless numbers -a myriad really -of tiny, shifting swarms of midges that make it hard for me to look at the objects themselves. Because of this swarm, I can't see the first letter of a word clearly. It doesn't come through clearly but looks like it's been plucked, gnawed around the edges, and what's left are scattered points, quills, or threads that flicker like a swarm. I can see this now with my own eyes -when I look out the window I have a very small span of vision, but in and around that span I see this swarm racing back and forth. (in Luria 1972: 38)

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Security of geography/geography of security

Cited by 92 publications

References 25 publications

Expanding the scales and domains of (in)security: Youth employment in urban Zambia

Expanding the scales and domains of (in)security: Youth employment in urban Zambia

Multiple transformations: theorizing energy vulnerability as a socio-spatial phenomenon

Insecure bodies/selves: introduction to theme section

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