Resilience and (in)security: Practices, subjects, temporalities

Security Dialogue

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 3-14

  Dunn Cavelty, Myriam ^a   Kaufmann, Mareile ^b   Søby Kristensen, Kristian ^c  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b PEACE RESEARCH INSTITUTE OSLO PRIO   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

insecurity; resilience; security; security practices; subject; temporality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922757913     PISSN: 09670106     EISSN: 14603640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0967010614559637     Document Type: Article

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