Workshop Series: Anthropologies and Securities

Between COVID-19 and social mobilisations, the year 2020 has brought along unprecedented shifts in security discourses, practices and configurations on local, national and global levels.

How to make sense of these security shifts following the cumulation of sanitary, social, political, ecological and economic crises over the past year(s) ?

This question is at heart of this Workshop Series “Anthropologies and Securities”.

Our overall goal is to constructively formulate current problematics and work towards solutions that help us understand the changing dynamics in the social and political constructions of security, and how to go about these configurations in conceptual, practical and methodological terms. While this project offers a space that brings practitioners, civil society and academics closer together, the more overarching aim is to fill collaborative gaps and foster dialogue between different anthropological specialisations that all overlap with the topic of security.

The first intended outcome of this workshop will be the use of visual, audio and textual material on our interactive website, with the possibility of further activities to follow.