What is the relationship between space and security? How is security produced and performed in various US spaces (continental and extracontinental), how are safe and unsafe spaces constructed and narrated, and how have perceptions of security and vulnerability changed over time? In this course we will explore US-American spaces, imaginaries and narratives related to concepts of security and insecurity as well as the ways such narratives have been functionalized for different purposes. We will discuss theories of spatialization as well as at concrete spaces such as gated communities, “ethnic” neighborhoods, suburbs, detention camps, prisons, and borders, and the ways narratives of (in)security are related to the construction of new communities and coalitions. The last sessions of this course will be dedicated to student group projects.
- Trainer/in: Gabriele Pisarz-Ramirez