Tessa Diphoorn is Assistant Professor in the Department of Cultural Anthropology at Utrecht University, The Netherlands.
Erella Grassiani is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Security Blurs focuses on the notion of 'blurring' as a process whereby actors engaged in the provision of security interact and thereby reconfigure security ideas, logics, and practices. The chapters address the entanglements and overlaps between a variety of state and non-state providers.
Foreword Erika Robb Larkins
Introducing Security Blurs Erelle Grassiani and Tessa Diphoorn
1. "The Supermarket Became an Army Base!": Security and the Military/Civilian Blur in an Israeli Settlement Jeremy Siegman
2. Security blurs in Haiti: Urban armed groups as providers of (in)security Moritz Schuberth
3. Security Blurs and Citizenship: Consequences in Indonesia Laurens Bakker
4. 'Loose Girls bring Bad Boys into Safe Neighborhoods': Analyzing Urban Security Anxieties and the Everyday Logics of Blurred Moral Policing in Urban India Atreyee Sen
5. Disputed sovereignty: entanglements of state and civilian policing in Maputo, Mozambique Helene Maria Kyed
6. The Blurred (In)security of Community Policing in Bolivia Line Jakobsen and Lars Buur
7. Border control and blurred responsibilities at the airport Perle Møhl
Afterword Rivke Jaffe