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      The Everyday Life of Security: Capturing Space, Practice, and Affect

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      International Political Sociology
      Oxford University Press (OUP)

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          Security shapes everyday life, but despite a growing literature on everyday security there is no consensus on the meaning of the “everyday.” At the same time, the research methods that dominate the field are designed to study elites and high politics. This paper does two things. First, it brings together and synthesizes the existing literature on everyday security to argue that we should think about the everyday life of security as constituted across three dimensions: space, practice, and affect. Thus, the paper adds conceptual clarity, demonstrating that the everyday life of security is multifaceted and exists in mundane spaces, routine practices, and affective/lived experiences. Second, it works through the methodological implications of a three-dimensional understanding of everyday security. In order to capture all three dimensions and the ways in which they interact, we need to explore different methods. The paper offers one such method, exploring the everyday life of security in contemporary China through a participatory photography project with six ordinary citizens in Beijing. The central contribution of the paper is capturing—conceptually and methodologically—all three dimensions, in order to develop our understanding of the everyday life of security.

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                Journal
                International Political Sociology
                Oxford University Press (OUP)
                1749-5679
                1749-5687
                September 2021
                July 29 2021
                April 13 2021
                September 2021
                July 29 2021
                April 13 2021
                : 15
                : 3
                : 313-337
                Affiliations
                [1 ]University of Sheffield, UK
                Article
                10.1093/ips/olab005
                be5b6c5e-e6e4-4dbc-933f-dda765f62736
                © 2021

                https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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