[ecrea] CFP: Cultures of (In)Security in Comparison

Call for Papers: Special Issue for DEDALUS Journal
Cultures of (In)Security in Comparison
edited by Susana Araújo | Susana S. Martins | Carlos Garrido Castellano



The culture of (in)security which threatens contemporary societies did 
not begin with ‘9/11’ (nor with its European counterparts ‘11M’ [Madrid] 
and ‘7/7’ [London]), nor more significantly with the ensuing ‘War on 
Terror,’ but many meanings, practices and policies associated with 
security have been seriously re-examined in the last decades. These 
landmark events have not been the only sorts of anxiety under analysis. 
Of late, different sources of insecurity (from the global financial 
crisis to natural catastrophes) have been recently (re-)exposed, 
inviting us, on the one hand, to re-evaluate the meanings and effects of 
a "culture of risk" and, on the other, to reconsider dangers overlooked 
by political agendas.

Recent works dealing with “cultures of security” are now beginning to 
consider its new global logic, but few of them have addressed security 
as a cultural trend open to comparative analyses. What is insecurity as 
a cultural formation? How does security become culture, i.e. cultural 
object, cultural logic or cultural artifact? Where does it come from and 
where does it go? How can the causes and effects of different sources of 
(in)security be compared?

Comparative and cultural studies approaches to insecurity are, thus, 
pressing if we want to understand the new movements and directions of 
contemporary cultures as shaped by fear and (in)security. By insisting 
on the binomial term “(in)security” we are, of course, suggesting  a 
reflection about the dichotomous relationship implicit in current 
practices of security and in the creation of new cultural foci of 
insecurity and risk. By considering local and global realities, as well 
as general and specific cultural objects, this special issue aims to 
interrogate, examine and compare cultural formations of insecurity which 
have emerged in the age of late capitalism, leading us to revisit the 
very meanings of the word “security” and forcing us to reconsider what 
it is that western and non-western subjects truly aim to “secure”.


SUBMISSIONS & DATES
31st MAY 2015: Submission of Full Papers (5000-7000 words).
Authors are also encouraged to send 300-word abstracts before 31st MARCH 
2015
Proposals should be addressed to: (s.i.a.araujo /at/ gmail.com) and 
(cgc /at/ campus.ul.pt)



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Susana S. Martins
Institute for Art History, FCSH - Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal &
Institute for Cultural Studies, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
http://sites.google.com/site/susanamsmartins/

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