Young people's everyday securities: pre-emptive and pro-active strategies towards ontological security in Scotland

This paper uses a framework of 'ontological security' to discuss the psychosocial strategies of self-securitisation employed by ethnic and religious minority young people in Scotland. We argue that broad discourses of securitisation are present in the everyday risks and threats that young...

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Published in:Social & cultural geography 2019-05, Vol.20 (4), p.465-484
Main Authors: Botterill, Kate, Hopkins, Peter, Sanghera, Gurchathen Singh
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Ambivalence
critical securities
Discourses
embodiment
Ethnic groups
Ethnicity
everyday geopolitics
Feminism
Geopolitics
geopolítica cotidiana
géopolitiques du quotidien
hostilidad hacia el islam
incarnation
Intimacy
Islamophobia
islamophobie
jeunes
jóvenes
Landscape
Minority groups
Ontological security
Ontology
Psychosocial factors
Religious minorities
representación
Resistance
Securities
Securitization
Security
seguridad ontológica
seguridades críticas
sécurité ontologique
sécurités critiques
young people
Youth
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Summary:This paper uses a framework of 'ontological security' to discuss the psychosocial strategies of self-securitisation employed by ethnic and religious minority young people in Scotland. We argue that broad discourses of securitisation are present in the everyday risks and threats that young people encounter. In response and as resistance young people employ pre-emptive and pro-active strategies to preserve ontological security. Yet, these strategies are fraught with ambivalence and contradiction as young people withdraw from social worlds or revert to essentialist positions when negotiating complex fears and anxieties. Drawing on feminist geographies of security the paper presents a multi-scalar empirical analysis of young people's everyday securities, connecting debates on youth and intimacy-geopolitics with the social and cultural geographies of young people, specifically work that focuses upon young people's negotiations of racialised, gendered and religious landscapes.
ISSN:1464-9365
1470-1197
DOI:10.1080/14649365.2017.1346197