Anxious Anticipations: Border-crossing In/security and the Implosion of the US-led Global Order
Born on US soil to citizen parents, I applied for my first passport at age 12, when my grandma took me with her to visit Italy and Greece for two weeks.
Care, Cordiality, and Control. Multisensorial Encounters with More-than-Security in Urban Brazil
In urban Brazil, portarias–entry halls and porters lodges–and their staff absorb the circulation of people and goods as they pass between the streets and domestic spaces.
Sniffing Out Trouble? What and how the ‘Police Nose’ Smells
Suspicion appears to sit largely in the nose: we might say that something ‘stinks,’ ‘smells off,’ that we ‘smell a rat,’ or perhaps ‘something fishy.
Pots that go bang in the night: Noise and rhythm as enacting popular security amidst political...
Introduction The pots and pans that were banged at night in Mozambique in late 2024 and early 2025 are now silent.