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Moving beyond state-centric and elitist perspectives, this volume
examines everyday security in the Central Asian country of
Kyrgyzstan. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and written by scholars
from Central Asia and beyond, it shows how insecurity is
experienced, what people consider existential threats, and how they
go about securing themselves. It concentrates on individuals who
feel threatened because of their ethnic belonging, gender or sexual
orientation. It develops the concept of 'securityscapes', which
draws attention to the more subtle means that people take to secure
themselves - practices bent on invisibility and avoidance, on
disguise and trickery, and on continually adapting to shifting
circumstances. By broadening the concept of security practice, this
book is an important contribution to debates in Critical Security
Studies as well as to Central Asian and Area Studies.
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Peace Report 2015 - A Selection of Texts. Institute for Development and Peace, Duisburg, Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg, Peace Research Institute, Frankfurt, Bonn International Center for Conversion, Bonn, Protestant Institute F (Paperback)
Ines-Jacqueline Werkner, Janet Kursawe, Margret Johannsen, Claudia Baumgart-Ochse, Marc von Boemcken
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"The machine is neither an intimate part of me, nor is it other.
Instead: it is that within me which belongs to the other. The
machine is ex-timate." This book attempts to challenge
traditionally held theories of technology assuming a clear-cut
distinction between the machine and the human. Heralded by both
instrumentalism and determinism alike, the belief in technology as
a radical other to subjective becoming has seduced current debate
into an apocalyptic deadlock that ultimately presents us with a
false choice between salvation and destruction, technophilia and
technophobia. Here, a psychoanalytic theory, derived from the work
of Jacques Lacan, may be introduced as a method of critical
intervention. The machine is re-imagined as no longer the fantastic
locus of final overcoming, but an originary supplement to the
negotiation of being. Not least Martin Heidegger's famous lecture
"Die Frage zum Wesen der Technologie" as well as its profound
influence on thinkers such as Marshall McLuhan and Jean Baudrillard
may thus be critically explored from a Lacanian vantage point.
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