LONDON BOOK LAUNCH: Emma Mc Cluskey - From Righteousness to Far Right

King's College London - Bush House, 30 Aldwych, London, UK
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Join Emma Mc Cluskey for the London, UK launch of her new book, From Righteousness to Far Right: An Anthropological Rethinking of Critical Security Studies. Emma Mc Cluskey is a research associate in the Department of War Studies and a teaching fellow of international relations at King's College London.

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From Righteousness to Far Right follows nineteen months of ethnographic fieldwork with a grassroots NGO in a small Swedish village, where over one hundred refugees were housed. Through an embedded, anthropological study of day-to-day life in refugee resettlement, Emma Mc Cluskey examines how increasingly antagonistic and xenophobic policies concerning refugees gained legitimacy. Arguing that existing approaches to critical security studies inadequately address the textured, contradictory, and often resistant practices of everyday life within societies, Mc Cluskey re-gears securitization theory along anthropological lines and shifts the focus of the investigation onto the quotidian realm, where much of the controversy over migration and security plays out.