| ID | 083435 |
| Title Proper | Actually existing security |
| Other Title Information | the political economy of the saharan threat |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Lacher, Wolfram |
| Publication | 2008. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | The transformation of Saharan populations into an object of global security is analysed as a specific instance of security's expansion globally, as well as of its merger with development, understood as a side-effect of the former. It is shown that the search for threats in the Sahara, and the establishment of surveillance apparatuses, is a precondition for the detection and discursive production of these threats. Security, through its production of knowledge, manages to objectify what had hitherto constituted a borderland of knowledge and government. The securitization of the Sahara and its populations creates a field of intervention for diverse agents of security and development. However, it does so not as part of a coherent global regime of control, but on its own specific and random terms, within a political economy of danger that is the product of discursive and material struggles. The securitization of the Sahara, it is argued, should be seen as actually existing security - that is, a complex of security practices serving diverse interests, with contradictory and open-ended outcomes |
| `In' analytical Note | Security Dialogue Vol. 39, No.4; Aug 2008: p308-405 |
| Journal Source | Security Dialogue Vol. 39, No.4; Aug 2008: p308-405 |
| Key Words | Borderlands ; Development ; Governmentality ; Securitization ; Terrorism |