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Course description

That security and development are intricately linked may be a common assumption widely shared. However, there are competing approaches to understanding how security and development may be related to one another, and these in turn are contingent upon how security and development are conceptualised. In this course we familiarise ourselves with new conceptual and methodological approaches aimed at understanding and explaining not only the co-constitution of development and security, but also contexts in which development creates insecurities, or in which security police has adverse implications for development aspirations. By investigating case examples from both, historical and contemporary contexts and settings, we critically examine the many connections and tensions associated with the pursuit of development and security objectives. Topics we cover include Human Security, anticolonial struggles over security and development, the politics and political economy of Fragile States, extractivism and insecurity, the migration-prison industrial complex, authoritarian populism, and 'Zapatismo'.

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