Accumulating Insecurity: Violence and Dispossession in the Making of Everyday Life

Contents

Preface ix “Introduction: A New Politics of Containment” Shelley Feldman, Gayatri A. Menon, and Charles Geisler 1 PART ONE Rights in Suspension 1 “From the Welfare State to the Militarized Market: Losing Choices, Controlling Losers” Martha T. McCluskey 27 2 “Poverty as an Everyday State of Exception” Julie A. Nice 49 3 “Beyond Displacement: Gentrification of Racialized Spaces as Violence—Harlem, New York, and New Orleans, Louisiana” Paula C. Johnson 79 4 “Schooled In/Security: Surplus Subjects, Racialized Masculinity, and Citizenship” Deborah Cowen and Amy Siciliano 104 5 “Dispossessing Law: Arbitrary Detention in Southern Thailand” Tyrell Haberkorn 122 PART TWO Fugitive Corporeality 6 “Spectacle of Terror, Spectacle of Security” Nicholas De Genova 141 7 “Securing Life: Human Trafficking, Biopolitics, and the Sovereign Pardon” Claudia Aradau 166 CONTENTS viii • contents 8 “Surveillance and Securitization: The New Politics of Social Reproduction” Shelley Feldman 185 PART THREE Displacement of Politics 9 “Securing the Market of War: The Middle East Partnership Initiative” Zakia Salime 215 10 “Accumulating Insecurity among Illegal Immigrants” Charles Geisler 240 11 “Protest-as-Violence in Oil Fields: The Contested Representation of Profiteering in Two Extractive Sites” Anna Zalik 261 12 “National Security versus Public Safety: Femicide, Drug Wars, and the Mexican State” Melissa W. Wright 285 13 “Capitalizing Humanity: The Global Disposition of People and Things” Pheng Cheah 298 Contributors 321 Index 325 ...