From the study of crime in sociology or of human security in development studies, to concerns with environmental catastrophe in climate studies and trans-national terrorism in international relations, the growth of security as a matter of academic concern is deemed a sign of our times. But what is security from a cross-cultural perspective? What does it look like from the point of view, not only of those people deemed to be under threat, but also from that of those who are deemed to pose it? Focusing on the multiple and mutually imbricated notions of, and concerns with, time involved in security practices across the globe, this volume brings together a selected group of established and upcoming scholars who conduct ethnographic research in a broad ambit of securitized contexts - from the experience of Palestinian detainees in Israel or forms of popular violence in Bolivia, to efforts to normalise social relations in post-conflict Yugoslavia and ways of imagining threat in contemporary protest movements in Europe - to chart the temporalities of securitization in a multi-polar world.

Foreword and Acknowledgments. Introduction: Times of Security Morten Axel Pedersen and Martin Holbraad Defining Security in Late Liberalism: A Comment on Pedersen and Holbraad Elizabeth A. Povinelli 1. Security Is a Collective Body: Intersecting Times of Security in the Copenhagen Climate Summit Stine Krøijer 2. "Captured With Their Hands in the Dough": Insecurity, Safety-Seeking and Securitization in El Alto, Bolivia Helene Risør 3. Readings of Time: Of Coca, Presentiment and Illicit Passage in Peru Richard Kernaghan 4. Seizing Catastrophes: The Temporality of Nakba Among Palestinians in Denmark Anja Kublitz 5. Enduring Presents: Living a Prison Sentence as the Wife of a Detainee in Israel Lotte Buch Segal 6. Parasecurity and Paratime in Serbia: Neurocortical Defence and National Consciousness Maja Petrovic-steger 7. Bad Weather: The Time of Planetary Crisis Joseph Masco 8. Time Consciousness in North Korea's State Security Discourse Heonik Kwon Afterword: Notes on Securitization and Temporality Steffen Jensen and Finn Stepputat