Fears for the future: the incommensurability of securitisation and in/securities among southern African youth
Fears for the future: the incommensurability of securitisation and in/securities among southern African youth
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DOI：
10.1080/14649365.2017.1344871
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发表时间：
2019-05
影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
N. Ansell;F. Hajdu;L. van Blerk;E. Robson
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作者：
N. Ansell;F. Hajdu;L. van Blerk;E. Robson
摘要在过去的二十年里，南部非洲经历了艾滋病的高流行率和经常性的粮食短缺。国际机构对这些挑战的反应是，将其视为需要紧急干预的安全问题。年轻人被卷入这两次危机，并作为（风险和保护的）代理人和（潜在的）受害者被卷入证券化讨论。然而，全球机构提出并转化为国家政策的安全概念并没有反映出“实地”的安全经验是如何作为一种主观和具体的未来取向的。本文将青年临时性的工作，以承担在/安全和证券化的社会和文化地理。它报告了探索莱索托和马拉维年轻人不安全感的研究。它的结论是，通过专注于“威胁”的孤立，并寻求保护“社会”作为一个抽象的聚合物的人，全球证券化的话语未能参与复杂的语境化的方式，边缘化的人体验不安全或提供的政治反应，如果这些感觉不安全是需要得到解决。然而，尽管证券化存在问题，但在年轻人面向未来的过程中，安全性仍然是一个重要因素。
Abstract Over the past two decades, southern Africa has experienced both exceptionally high AIDS prevalence and recurrent food shortages. International institutions have responded to these challenges by framing them as security concerns that demand urgent intervention. Young people are implicated in both crises and drawn into the securitisation discourse as agents (of risk and protection) and as (potential) victims. However, the concepts of security deployed by global institutions and translated into national policy do not reflect the ways in/security is experienced ‘on the ground’ as a subjective and embodied orientation to the future. This paper brings work on youth temporalities to bear on social and cultural geographies of in/security and securitisation. It reports on research that explored insecurities among young people in Lesotho and Malawi. It concludes that, by focusing on ‘threats’ in isolation, and seeking to protect ‘society’ as an abstract aggregate of people, global securitisation discourses fail either to engage with the complex contextualised ways in which marginalised people experience insecurity or to proffer the political responses that are needed if those felt insecurities are to be addressed. However, while securitisation is problematic, in/security is nonetheless an important element in young people’s orientation to the future.