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Security Atmospheres or the Crystallisation of Worlds

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ID4476602
AuthorsP Adey (0000-0001-6807-4282, Royal Holloway University of London, corresponding author)
Year2014
Volume32
Issue5
Pages834-851
Publication date2014-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEnvironment and Planning D Society and Space (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0263-7758 • E-ISSN: 1472-3433
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1068/d21312
OpenAlexW2055178583
LanguageEN
Citations received72
References cited50

This paper makes several moves towards the study of geographies of security through notions of atmosphere. Two related claims circulate through this paper: that security is becoming attuned to what we might call affective atmospheres, whilst it is itself becoming atmospheric. The paper proceeds to develop, first, a correlation of ideas across concepts of security, power, and affective atmospheres. The following section sees security understood atmospherically, before it goes on to explore how security is increasingly attuned to affective atmospheres as its object-target. Finally, by way of conclusion, the paper offers several manners of contestation and critique. Throughout, the paper draws on a variety of secondary literature as well as primary documentary research and analysis, focusing empirically upon a set of counterinsurgency practices known as 'atmospherics

Aesthetics · Art · Atmosphere (unit · Environmental security · Geography · Linguistics · Meteorology · Object (grammar · Political science · Power (physics · Set (abstract data type · Sociology · Variety (cybernetics · Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking · Computer Science · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Global Security and Public Health · Law · Philosophy

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