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“We Are All Security Now”: Thoughts on a Critical Anthropology of Security

Lecture within the series "Marburg AnthroLab" organized by the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology. The series offers a venue for sharing information about current projects, field experiences, and research findings with colleagues, students, and the general public and is designed to be a laboratory for the exchange of creative, innovative, but also critical ideas and a space for lively discussions.

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This talk engages a case of security-making and security practice from the indigenous highlands of north-western Guatemala. Tracing connections between paramilitaries formed during the civil war in Guatemala and the current security committees active in a Mam-Maya municipality, I discuss how security is now deeply imbricated in everyday life from politics and generational relationships to households and gender dynamics.