Three-dimensional security: Layers, spheres, volumes, milieus

Abstract

This paper critically engages with, and draws inspiration from the `vertical turn’ in political geographies of security. In so doing, I expose fragilities in its conceptual vocabulary and theoretical orientations, and call into question the security imaginaries on which notions of three-dimensional securitisation are predicated. This provides an important entry point for interdisciplinary dialogue at the intersections of political geography and security studies; while the latter is not especially noted for its contribution to the study of verticalities, re-reading `volumetric security’ through the spatial framings which underpin contemporary security studies does have considerable analytical merit and clears the ground – via Foucault's notion of the milieu - for (re)thinking three-dimensional security in ontologically, epistemologically and politically inventive ways.

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Elaine Campbell (2018). Three-dimensional security: Layers, spheres, volumes, milieus. Political Geography. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2018.11.010

@article{elaine2018threedimensional,
  title  = {Three-dimensional security: Layers, spheres, volumes, milieus},
  author = {Campbell, Elaine},
  year   = {2018},
  journal = {Political Geography},
  doi    = {10.1016/j.polgeo.2018.11.010}
}

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