Boredom, excitement and other security affects

Anderson, B.

doi:10.1177/2043820615607759

Boredom, excitement and other security affects

Anderson, B.

Authors

Professor Ben Anderson ben.anderson@durham.ac.uk
Professor

Abstract

Expanding from Barnett’s critique of the emphasis in critical security work on ‘subjectivity through subjectification’, this response explores some of the ways in which geographers and others might attend to the diversity of security affects. Fear and anxiety do not exhaust the affective expressions of security, and affect is not simply another medium for the successful implementation of programmes of rule. Rather, affects are imbricated in the ordinary work of securing and publics are formed in and through encounters with the devices, techniques, objects and people that make up ‘security’. Securing and encounters with security are themselves enveloped, pressured and otherwise conditioned by collective affects.

Citation

Anderson, B. (2015). Boredom, excitement and other security affects. Dialogues in Human Geography, 5(3), 271-274. https://doi.org/10.1177/2043820615607759

Journal Article Type	Article
Publication Date	Nov 1, 2015
Deposit Date	Oct 2, 2015
Publicly Available Date	Oct 5, 2015
Journal	Dialogues in Human Geography
Print ISSN	2043-8206
Electronic ISSN	2043-8214
Publisher	SAGE Publications
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	5
Issue	3
Pages	271-274
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1177/2043820615607759
Keywords	Affect, Security, Securing.

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Anderson, B. (2015) 'Boredom, excitement and other security affects.', Dialogues in human geography., 5 (3). pp. 271-274. Copyright © 2015 The Author(s). Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications.