Everyday human (in)security: rescaling for the Southern city
- 2012
While human security research and policy focuses on security concerns that occur at the global scale are linked to spectacular events, and result in security strategies that concentrate on collective human needs and state-led responses, citizens' security experiences take place primarily at the local scale, in terms of everyday practices and individual subjectivities, resulting in citizen-led mitigation strategies. The 'gap' between the security agenda's global scale and urban citizen's local scale is the primary focus of this article, which uses empirical examples from the global South to highlight the ways in which urban citizens from diverse socioeconomic groups demonstrates scales of human (in)security that are under-addressed by the conceptual or policy framework.