Cultures Of Insecurity: States, Communities, and the Production of Danger (Volume 14) (Barrows Lectures)

Examines the cultural production of insecurity in local, national and international contexts. Genocide in Rwanda, instability in the Middle East, anarchy on the Internet-insecurities abound. But do they occur “naturally,” or are they, as this pathbreaking volume suggests, cultural and social productions? Bringing together scholars from political science and anthropology, this collection of essays redirects long-standing views on culture as both a source of insecurity and an object of analysis. Pamela Ballinger, Michael Barnett, Ralph Litzinger, George Marcus, Joseph Masco, Jennifer Milliken, John Mowitt, Himadeep Muppidi, Steve Niva, and Diana Saco.

Jutta Weldes is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Bristol. She is the author of "Constructing National Interests: The US and the Cuban Missile Crisis" (1999).
Raymond Duvall is Morse-Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor of Political Science and Associate Director of the Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change at the University of Minnesota. His recent publications include Cultures of Insecurity: States, Communities and the Production of Danger (1999), co-edited with Jutta Weldes, Mark Laffey and Hugh Gusterson.

Hugh Gusterson is Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs at George Washington University. He is the author of "Nuclear Rites" and "People of the Bomb: Portraits of America's Nuclear Complex".