securityscape

is often but not simply formed in a relationship to the interdiction of threats to the nation-state.

Gusterson's definition has a sharp critical edge that prioritizes the role of the state in the construction of relations of power and production of violence. We expand the term 'securityscape' to invoke a broader geographic and institutional expanse of heterogeneous, hybrid, interconnected state and nonstate, public and private, agencies and resources, which variously organize professional expectations, notions of expertise, activities, and goals, through which technology and training are distributed, and knowledge circulates, often but not simply in relationship to the interdiction of threats to the nation-state.

is the asymmetrical distributions of weaponry, military force, and military-scientific resources among nation-states and the local and global imaginaries of identity, power, and vulnerability that accompany these distributions.

asymmetrical distributions of weaponry, military force, and military-scientific resources among nation-states and the local and global imaginaries of identity, power, and vulnerability that accompany these distributions' (Gusterson 2004:166).

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securityscape